I know.... copy cat lol

Is it me, is it the camera, is it inside/outside...........but aren't those two pics entirely different colours?

lol, yep, camera, Light and wether I have the flash on or now.
These are taken inside, with strip lighting and depending on how I take the pic the colour looks different.

But when you see it in real life.. its GREEN :)

I really like the top one, like Ford signal green.

The bottom one is more grass green.

Both will look good on the Rover, LOL.

Correction, My Idea long ago Just took time to get one's arse into gear. I still have the chat logs to back this up too:thumb:

This afternoon I took my alloys to get the rubber fitted. I hope to fit these to my car nearer the end of November when the winter gets here.

Paint/lacquer felt hard enough and I had the thought if it were to come off it would either come off now or later if I left them longer to cure anyway.

Seeing I wanted to get the tyres back on, I though they could harden off once the tyres were on.

Really pleased with the final look. The tyre fitter was very careful not to damage anything on the wheel, only a couple of scuffs of paint on the inner rim of the alloy, mainly from the clamps that hold the alloy in place whilst the tyre gets put on. Once I got home I lightly sanded the scuffs and touched up the parts of the inner rim that needed touching up.. I just used a fine sign writing brush... the scuffs were that small.

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When Richard balanced them he used the stick on weights and fitted on the inside of the alloy :)

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Back home
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Maybe the wheels are too wide :lol:
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Offering them up against the 19" that are on the car now, you can see that the overall height of the tyre and 17" alloy matches the height of what the 19" is, hopefully there shouldn't be any large gaps between tyre and wheel arch when the Green wheels go on the car.
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Really pleased with the DIY out come using rattle cans, in all I've spent £70.88 on etch primer (2x 400ml cans £6.99 each) + paint (6x 300ml £3.99 each + 2x 150ml £4.50 each!!!!cans) + lacquer (2x 500ml cans £5.99 each/ 1x 500ml + extra 25% extra free £4.99!!). Knowing what I know now, I'd say it could be done with less spray paint (as I over bought and gave more coats that really needed, could have done it with 5-6 300ml cans, if I'd have bought just two lacquer cans that had 25% extra free I'd have had plenty).

Lets say I could have used £50 on materials, so it could have cost me £12.50 per alloy to paint.
Tyre removal/re-fit + new valve and balance cost me £48.

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I've still spent a lot less than having them powder coated in Green.

If anyone fancies doing their own alloys I'd say go for it... just make sure you prep well, buy a quality etch primer and quality brand spray cans, as it makes it so much easier to spray.

quality ;)

Looks good :) a lot of effort to save £60 though. Full powdercoat tyre off and on for £180 down here.:)

Aye, full job here for £200, including oven slow bake at a low temperature.

Or £30 a wheel if only light scuffing, or you do the prep-work.

HOWEVER: I seriously doubt that a) you'd get the level of care taken that Phil has shown, and b) the amount of paint, it's thickness would be the same.

Well done mate...........now to get a decent car, eh?

there's only THE WHEEL SPECIALIST I would let Powder Coat my wheels, and you don't get it done for £180 up here.
They sand blast off, prep, prime, spray, etc, bake and all in ONE DAY turn around.
basic colours (not GREEN) on 17" alloys you're looking at £250+ with tyre removal/refit.

Green would be more money.

A top job is done, I know, my wife Jo had hers done and thay are awesome...
She was loosing tyre pressure because the lacquer had broke down letting the air slowly out.
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Dropped off at 8am.. picked up at 5pm ..all done :)

Phil,

I recently had my wheels refurbed locally (JP Polishing) and the process he goes through is tgo blast off, prep Powder coat and bake, being a powder coat, it is a more OE finish. The cost of the full job including removal/refitting of tyres and valves was £200 for a set of 18"s

A lot of people this way swear by JP, and after having him do my wheels, I can see why.

My wheels were tunred around over 3 daya, but mainly because I told him there was no rush as the car doesn't get used much.

Looks awesome Phil, well done mate please you got all sorted.

just sorting out centre caps now... tnx 2 e bay :)

Looking good bud, but the real test with cellulose jobs is winter/salt and continuous cleaning, i sprayed my motorbike wheels Dayglo ornage as alot of places wouldnt do it, i can see why LOL, anyhoo, the job was sweet but after 2 yrs of cleaning/use etc you can see the flaws, hope yours last the test of time, again, good job and nice colour

fare point, but they'll only be on the car 5months of the year and iy wouldn't be a hard just to wft th over in a coupke of years, no need to remove tyres next time.. all the hard work's been done ;)

Anyway.. two years time.. they might be HOT PINK #:)

Very cool for a spare set mate. Nice.

great job, look forward to seeing them fitted :)

I used wire wool wrapped around a steel bar in a drill to help get in all the round bits when i did mine, reckon it saved quite some time :)

They look great and your def right the finish is only as good as the prep...dont rush!

I sprayed lots of wheels now, 3 coats paint, 3 coats lacquer, seems to have withstood time ok.

Im liking the green ;)

A super job, well done....

thanks peeps.


centre caps arrived yesterday, they need a bit of trimmig down on the back.. but fit nd look good :)

60mm Centre caps arrived yesterday and the 60mm STI trims arrived today.
I've had to cut a bit off the back of the centre cap to make it go in easier.. but they do fit :)

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well chuffed.



Phil

Phil,

Nice job on the wheels :thumb:

I purchased the 50mm version of your badges for my winter centre caps.

However, thought they looked tooo purple as against STi pink for my liking, so the Ebay vendor had some made up in red for me which arrived this AM..............

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Don, I'm pleased with the PINK, some say I should have ask for Green, but I like the pink as it matches the PINK STi logo on my sun strip :)

I just need a fine cutting wheel of my drimmel, so I can trim a bit more of the deep dished back of the centre caps, that way they will fit snug and neater than they are now :)

The STi sticker caps look the biz though in RED too ;)

You wont wanna put these wheels onto your car and get them dirty once you finished them!! :)

Yep.. the car will only go out in dry weather once they get fitted lol



Centre caps now sorted...I had to do a bit of trimming down on the rear of them (you can see from the pic) as it originally was a bit deep to the back, now cut/trimmed the caps fit nicely into the recess that is the centre cap area (how good are Draper - hobby craft cutting wheels & sanding discs!!) .
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Before applying the STi sticker to the plastic cap I made sure it was decreased with some brake cleaner ;).. as that's all I had to hand :) I also warmed the sticker up in the palm of my hand so it went soft making it easy to fit/stick into place on the cap. I'll leave them in the house a few days... so the sticky on the back of the sticker can set up and bond to the centre cap face.

in total how many can's did u use of each stage ?

check out post #36, that tells you everything I used. But I could have used a couple of cans less, but i wanted to ake sure they were well sprayed. ;)

NICE ONE CHEERS BUD

£70.88 on etch primer (2x 400ml cans £6.99 each) + paint (6x 300ml £3.99 each + 2x 150ml £4.50 each!!!!cans) + lacquer (2x 500ml cans £5.99 each/ 1x 500ml + extra 25% extra free £4.99!!). Knowing what I know now, I'd say it could be done with less spray paint (as I over bought and gave more coats that really needed, could have done it with 5-6 300ml cans, if I'd have bought just two lacquer cans that had 25% extra free I'd have had plenty).

are you going to have a go at doing it yourself?

Brilliant job there Phil very impressive indeed. I know you are a cleaning man as well there I'm not sure which products you use but a few coats of Poorboys Wheel Sealent would get them ready for the winter nicely and protect them from the grime on the roads. I think a lot of people go wrong cleaning wheels with products they use and it's got little to do with salt a lot of the time as its the cleaning products that do the damage that then lets the salt in. I personally just use Poorboys and the remnants of my bucket to was mine these days.