Anyone got pics of the above? wondering what colour suits.

 

mate
you have seen loads of pics of my car
but just in case you missed this one.

 

I like the red. sexy! but so many people have red! i was thinking maybe silver with the writing in dark blue.....red does look good though!!!

 

For my red is better...


Bye

Olivier

 

Just got to do the lettering in white next

 

NICE
What do people do them with? special caliper paint or some other kind? (hammerite or something?)

 

I went for the caliper paint... it's a two pack stuff and you mix small amounts, can't remember off hand what it is called Some people use hammerite as well I think that works also.
I have done front and back in red, one point to watch out for is if you splash alloy wheel cleaner on them it will eat into them a little.
I have enough left from my initial purchase to give them another coat when the weather gets better.

 

EVER THE FRUGAL WELSHMAN

 

My old MY00 UK Turbo...







I used Halfords brake paint... £9.99, just painted it on... did a few light coats on a warm day...

 

Apologies for the naff picture but it's the best I can do right now.

I went with silver with white lettering - not a fan of red myself.

 

I did this with my old MY99 DBM...



J.

 

 

that sliver and blue looks wicked. i love that look.

But i might be taken by the dark blue and gold. classy!! and looks easier to paint rather than doing individual letters.

Hmmmm....desisions......

When you guys did them did you just do one wheel at a time? ive only got normal jack so i guess it would have to be one at a time. How long does it take to dry enough to put wheel back on?

 

I jacked the car up, and also used blocks of wood. I did one caliper at a time, off the car and cleaned up with an attachment on an electric drill. Then coated with celulose, left to dry the painted with Hammerite.

 

I did one wheel at time over a couple of weekends.

It's easier if you can get the calliper off the car, but I did mine on the car. With my newage I'll probably go that little bit extra and get them professionally coloured, or try and swap for an MY05 colour coded pair.

If you're up for DIY...

a) make sure you give the callipers a damn good clean first
b) followed a few scrubs with a de-grease solution
c) wash off with plenty of water and dry
d) take your time painting
e) be careful around the disc and pad areas


You can see from my DBM and Gold... I got fed up with trying to make the Subaru lettering neat, so I just filled it all in

J.

 

what wheels are these? any more pics??

 

look like oz record
might be similar

http://www.ozracing.ie/OZRange.htm

 

NO NO NO NO NO your all wrong, i painted mine yellow and against the Blue it looked fantastic! Different from everything else but got noticed by everyone

Dont do a rushed job or it will look pants, wait for a nice day and spend the day doing it!!!


Gav..

 

Some more pic's of my old MY00 UK Turbo... 18inch OZ Chrono's by the way...

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/166/dsc000713qj.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/8392/dsc000188bn.jpg

http://img344.imageshack.us/img344/3802/dsc000234jp.jpg

Some more pic's here:-

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthread.php?t=498244