Happy New Year Astonauts/Astoneers!
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HNY to you all, I trust a good evening was had by everyone?
Currently in a lovely hotel in Chichester after a night at Goodwood Kennels and on to the big House, Aston sits poised in the car park waiting for me to feel 'up to driving it' home. I think another hour or two and lunch should help...
Shame the weather isn't nice enough to take the roof off, that'd do the trick! Maybe Mrs Y won't mind the rain...
Currently in a lovely hotel in Chichester after a night at Goodwood Kennels and on to the big House, Aston sits poised in the car park waiting for me to feel 'up to driving it' home. I think another hour or two and lunch should help...
Shame the weather isn't nice enough to take the roof off, that'd do the trick! Maybe Mrs Y won't mind the rain...
woolders said:
Did the Hindhead tunnel at noonish today with the roof down.
About 1'ish in Chichester it started hammering down and it just got worse on the way back up the A3, one of the worst drives I have had in the car, aquaplaning all over the place! So even Hindhead tunnel couldn't lift my spirits and with Mrs Y asleep, dropping to second and nailing it wasn't going to happen...Rear tyres aren't at their best anymore, just over the wear indicators, so rather than buy a new pair I have bough some 20" DBS wheels with brand new P-Zeros on. A Grippy New Year for me...
Anyone want some freshly refurbed, perfect-nick Sports Pack alloys next month..?
yeti said:
Rear tyres aren't at their best anymore, just over the wear indicators, so rather than buy a new pair I have bough some 20" DBS wheels with brand new P-Zeros on. A Grippy New Year for me...
What style? The 20 spoke ones, or the ones that look like sport pack ones but bigger and painted instead of diamond turned? What colour too? I hope silver 
George H said:
the ones that look like sport pack ones but bigger
Those ones But they are diamond turned and yes, currently silver. I may have them painted a light primer grey like my SP wheels just having shine on the diamond turned edge. Looks good that way with my greeny-grey (Chiltern) car. My current wheels... (with the mighty 6-pot Brembo GTs!)
Edited to add - only takes about 10secs to clean each wheel as well, just a wipe over the diamond turned surface. No idea why everyone doesn't have this done!!
yeti said:
Edited to add - only takes about 10secs to clean each wheel as well, just a wipe over the diamond turned surface. No idea why everyone doesn't have this done!!
Very nice, I like the callipers now they're painted, but if they're anything like my wheels, they don't take 10 seconds to clean! Getting in between the 2 spokes is a right pain. Probably closer to 5 mins per wheel.Are there no issues with the wheel arches catching the tyre by putting a bigger size wheel on?
George H said:
Very nice, I like the callipers now they're painted, but if they're anything like my wheels, they don't take 10 seconds to clean! Getting in between the 2 spokes is a right pain. Probably closer to 5 mins per wheel.
Are there no issues with the wheel arches catching the tyre by putting a bigger size wheel on?
My point is, when they're painted grey, they don't need cleaning, just a wipe on the outer edge. That takes 10secs per wheel Are there no issues with the wheel arches catching the tyre by putting a bigger size wheel on?
The catching on the arches could be an issue - Rick advised against fitting DBS wheels it but equally I think he stated he didn't know of an instance of wheels catching arches, just that it *could* happen. I'm asking Bamford Rose do it when they service my car in January (if they can fit me in!!) so I'll get their thoughts on the matter. I'll make it work, I always do.
Tons of cars in the US and a few over here running DBS wheels and weird aftermarket stuff, I haven't heard of issues. Nice to have the extra width/rubber on the road and am happy to keep OEM wheels as well. Plus they don't scream *DBS* like the 20 spoke jobbies, they just look like SP wheels, doubt anyone will even notice I have changed them!
Well, this went off topic... Must have been the midnight bagpipes at Goodwood last night, I've gone all Jockman!
yeti said:
Those ones
But they are diamond turned and yes, currently silver. I may have them painted a light primer grey like my SP wheels just having shine on the diamond turned edge. Looks good that way with my greeny-grey (Chiltern) car. My current wheels... (with the mighty 6-pot Brembo GTs!)
Edited to add - only takes about 10secs to clean each wheel as well, just a wipe over the diamond turned surface. No idea why everyone doesn't have this done!!
+1 New sport pack wheels have that finish as an option But they are diamond turned and yes, currently silver. I may have them painted a light primer grey like my SP wheels just having shine on the diamond turned edge. Looks good that way with my greeny-grey (Chiltern) car. My current wheels... (with the mighty 6-pot Brembo GTs!)
Edited to add - only takes about 10secs to clean each wheel as well, just a wipe over the diamond turned surface. No idea why everyone doesn't have this done!!
HNY to you all and roll on some roof down weather
Edited by mikey k on Sunday 1st January 20:46
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