I picked the car up today from APS Alloy Wheel Refurbishment in Swansea , after get absolutely cheesed off with cleaning the blinking brake dust off the wheels I decided to get them refurbed and repainted in a dark gunmetal grey with 4 layers of lacquer to add cleaning.

Below are a few pictures I took earlier today on my Iphone, sorry if the quality is not fantastic (pics that is) but I am really pleased with the result and the pictures do not really do them justice.













I am going to take the wheels off at the weekend and treat them with Poorboys wheel sealant.

Also does anyone know where I can get some black wheel nuts from or your suggestions on wheel nut colour would be appreciated.

 

Awesome job Ty - very "P1"esque, likey very much indeed I had my red nuts from the group buy on here - not sure if it's still ongoing though, but the supplier was great (Hong Kong way I think). I've got some blue nuts you are welcome to fit and see how they look - if you look at "my garage pics" I think both sets of nuts are on there, following a colour change!. They (both) aren't locking nuts though (Blue would look good with the body colour though)

Try these Japshop Home - Ultralite stockists, they do black ones and pretty sure lockable too

 

Very nice Ty saves cleaning mate just need some wheel nuts to finish them off

 

Bloody lovely mate, can we see the whole car?
Im gonna be visting Steve very soon to cast his magic across my Speedlines.

 

Looks great I was thinking of a gunmetal colour on mine

 

Looking good. Im getting some Ultralite nuts of their website. A bit expensive but quality costs. They do different colours too

 

Thanks guys, when I get home later I will take some pics of the complete car so you can see how they look on the car.

I am leaning towards getting black wheel nuts and some black wheel caps.

Calvin, is that the same site as suggested by RF555?

 

Looks nice mate.
Do you mind me asking how much they cost to get done?
Am having mine done at the mo with the guy in work, 100 for the 4 in any colour i want.

 

They cost me £230 but that including remove and refit the wheels, remove and refit the tyres, rebalancing of the wheels, strip the wheels down to bare metal, repair some curb marks (by the previous owner of the wheels I might add) plus a repair to the o/s/f wheel where I hit a pothole at 'speed' and took a chunk out of the outer lip , prep and paint with multiple layers of metallic paint, 4 layers of lacquer.

I know there are other repairers out there and APS are not the cheapest but they have a good reputation and have done a cracking job.

 

The wheels looked great when I followed you back from swansea yesterday, I noticed straight away and they are much nicer than the other ones

 

Thanks Claire I did notice you but not until I had gone over Loughor bridge, hows the new job going?

 

Look good Ty, i bet they really set the car off, look like a great finish too, nice one!!

 

Looking good, they look very dark for Gun metal though in the pics almost black.

 

they look good nice finish aswell, i'd go with black nuts mate

 

Here we go Ty Ultralite Wheels

 

Nice mate Got some pink nuts here your more than welcome to.

 

Look good!

 

nice

 

Very nice indeed, that changes the complete charactor of the car going darker

 

Here we are there are two side shots of the car which give a better impression of what the wheels look like on the car.

These were taken in a bit of a rush so excuse the quality.

 

I checked myself this evening they are very dark and do look black in the photos but when you get up close they are very dark gunmetal.

Black nuts it is then.

Thanks Calvin, i am awaiting an e-mail from them about OZ fitment.

 

I really like them Ian, they give the car a totally different look.

Thanks Ryan but I am going for black nuts, I appreciate the offer.

Thanks.

 

Love it mate! Once you have sorted the colour of the calipers it will be spot on!!

Im still thinking yellow would be very cool and would contrast really well, only my opinion though

 

Thanks I would recommend APS to anybody, plus they also do chroming, polishing and I would think porting as well but I would check on that one.

I like to think so, gives the car a much meaner look.

 

Looks loads better Ty

 

I will see if I can photoshop them to yellow to see how they look (or any willing peeps out there can do it for me as I am pretty useless on photoshop) , I had thought about red the same as the rear calipers but yellow would certainly stand out.

Thanks Marc, I knew I should have gone for dark wheels to start with.

 

They'd look better on a black one

 

I suppose you know just the car?

I'll take the compliment nonetheless

 

Yellow will stand out with the size of those stoppers, HUGE!!!!!

 

Great Rims

Wheel cleaning is a pain but A necessary evil

Its a shame they dont make white brake pads for the white wheel club members