I appear to have pimped my ride
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I haz Dish
I haven't bought new wheels - I got this car in 2006 and these wheels were on it
However they were in a poor state - water under the laquer had turned the alloy black - the paint was peeling of the corroded centres and the tyres well lets just say after a few miles they were toast.....
So I experimented with other alloys
Too fussy and bloody hard to clean - should have realised after years of living with Senators
Settled for the ones in the first picture
And then decided to re-furn the originals
Became
I needed to make sure I didn't lose the bolts
And the centres got blasted and coated
The alloy once the laquer was removed seemed to be black to the core and wouldn't polish so I threw it all in the garage loft and forgot about them..... Till Gewy wanted to try one on his project car so I had to put one together roughly (with four bolts - I hadn't lost them) the ally had gone back to grey so I thought I'd better finish them......
And finally 7 years later I have......
Cool story bro etc etc
After
Detail
I haz Dish
I haven't bought new wheels - I got this car in 2006 and these wheels were on it
However they were in a poor state - water under the laquer had turned the alloy black - the paint was peeling of the corroded centres and the tyres well lets just say after a few miles they were toast.....
So I experimented with other alloys
Too fussy and bloody hard to clean - should have realised after years of living with Senators
Settled for the ones in the first picture
And then decided to re-furn the originals
Became
I needed to make sure I didn't lose the bolts
And the centres got blasted and coated
The alloy once the laquer was removed seemed to be black to the core and wouldn't polish so I threw it all in the garage loft and forgot about them..... Till Gewy wanted to try one on his project car so I had to put one together roughly (with four bolts - I hadn't lost them) the ally had gone back to grey so I thought I'd better finish them......
And finally 7 years later I have......
Cool story bro etc etc
Edited by B'stard Child on Friday 18th October 18:39
Rob197 said:
Looks awesome!
Thank you so far today I have had "pimped" "boy racer" and "drug Dealer" comments starting to get a bit paranoid as it's a 7 series and not a hot hatch!!!It needs a good tap with a stick but it's also my tow car so I'll have to live with the "it's seen a mouse" looks
Edited by B'stard Child on Friday 18th October 20:27
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