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Post a picture of your vehicle here Part 5 (don't quote pictures, 24h ban!)
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Noccy_Mondy wrote: »Could you not have wrapped them or something? So that in 2 weeks, when you come to your senses, it can be reversed?
It can be reversed anyway. Can do them any colour. If I don't like them in a few weeks I can just go back and get him to go silver with them or whatever. It costs €200 each time.
I presume wrapping them would have been cheaper, but changing colour wasn't on my radar in the first place. They were just going in for a refurb as they were badly scuffed. He then asked what colour or was I sticking with silver and that was when it all started to become a big thing. I like black wheels so I figured I'd try them out. I did a few quick photoshop mocks and thought it looked really, really well (nobody agreed/agrees).
If I end up hating them, so be it. I'll be a bit adventurous for the moment and try out the black anyway. Won't kill anyone and if it is a disaster, it's something I can laugh at a couple of months down the line. T'is only a set of wheels
EDIT: as an aside, i saw this when I was away and I liked it (the all-black look). Admittedly there's not as much chrome/silver on this as there is on mine and these are obviously steelies, but i thought the overall look was nice all-in.0 -
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Love the Snow mustache
quote="GustavoFring;98949462"]Is the tyre still on the rim?[/quote]
Looks that way. not sure of the process involved or if the tyres were removed at all, but he's not new to this stuff so I'm sure he has his head on his shoulders with ways to do them.
If the tyres were never removed I'd say it was just a more difficult process for him to actually do them in the first place.
They could be a terrible, shoddy job of course. I haven't actually seen them yet. but he has done stuff before for me and it was always excellent. I've seen a few decent photos of other wheel sprays he did and it looks fairly good.
Going to collect them in an hour or so so will see them then. typically enough it's snowing and raining when In putting them back on the fecking car!
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I think the red calipers go pretty well on my car with the gun metal wheels...Alanstrainor wrote: »It could be a way to liven things up. But I think painted calipers look gak on *normal* cars. Maybe if you have big boy brakes, and grooved discs it can look okay. But it just looks silly on a normal car imo.
Also, its officilly broken in so I can put the boot down now *cough* :pac:
Picture not taken on a public road obviously...0 -
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Ive a very short commute, work is 160km per week and I have very little other driving usually. The rest of those kms were just aimless new car drivingI've almost 6k kms on mine already in 9 weeks. :eek:
F..k it, they are made to be driven!
Its on about 31/32mpg too for what has been fairly spirited driving too so im pretty happy! Id say late 30's would be easy once I settle down in it!0 -
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Donnelly117 wrote: »Ive a very short commute, work is 160km per week and I have very little other driving usually. The rest of those kms were just aimless new car driving
Its on about 31/32mpg too for what has been fairly spirited driving too so im pretty happy! Id say late 30's would be easy once I settle down in it!
Ive about a 36km commute each day and every second weekend I collect my son who lIves a nice distance away so that adds to the mileage. Currently around 38mpg avg in mine.0 -
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At €50 a wheel for a refurb and spray I'm surprised he even bothered taping the tyres.
Would've been handy if he didn't - save a few euro on tyre shine products. :P
Red calipers aren't something I'd be into I don't think. If I was spraying them I'd go black again or if I had to pick a colour I'd probably pick yellow or such (something very bright to tie in with the chrome).
The wheels turned out to be one of those "good news, bad news" things. The bad news is that I know I'll be scorned on here for the rest of my days over black wheels. Good news is that they look exactly how I expected they would, so I am very happy with them.
I only got one quick photo as the camera on the phone was acting up, but I'll grab a better one later on.
(I have chrome plastic nut covers that look well on them, but they aren't on the back wheel there. They tidy it all up a bit). In the hour I've had them one thing has become apparent - there'll be a lot more maintenance in keeping black wheels looking clean VS normal wheels.
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@kkv if you are happy with them that's all that really matters it's your car and you can do what you want to it. It's not like they are dangerous it's just a matter of people having different tastes. Tbh in some ways I thought they would look worse i still wouldn't be a fan but again that's just my opinion and taste. €200 was fair going for repairing and spraying them.
Also please don't spray the callipers black :pac: as you would be completely defeating the purpose of spraying them IMO. People suggested red in order to create a colour contrast so you would be literally doing the exact opposite by spraying them black.
Ah I know it's all down to personal preference, alright. Sure the amount of cars I see lowered with spoilers bigger than the car itself and stickers all over the windows, and I think they look terrible. But equally there are people that would look at them and think they look fantastic.
Much like people will see me rolling past and whilst one person may think it looks class, the chap next to him will be rolling his eyes.
To each their own. I'm very happy with how they turned out, though.
I did notice that he didn't remove the tyres though. When I was giving them a quick wipe and cleaning the tyres a little, you can see small areas of silver along the very edge. You'd really have to go looking for it, and I didn't notice it until I was thoroughly inspecting them, but, as said above, for €50 per wheel.. (i also think its because it was all a bit last minute, and he has no means of taking the tyres on and off properly. I'd say if i gave him the wheels with the tyres already removed he'd have done the whole thing, but i wasn't thinking along those lines and dropping the wheels off to him was a last minute effort).
It's also worth noting, that, colour aside, he did a great job of refurbing them. Two of them were a fair bit roughed up;
and they're all like brand new wheels now. My next job will be to get a matching set of tyres whenever I'm replacing them (I think there are 4 different brands on it. Not that you'd really notice, but when it comes time to change I'll stick with a single brand for the ould continuity).
In regards to the calipers, I'd do a coloured one if there was a secondary colour on the car. But as it's all just black and silver, i don't think I'd bother.
There are spacers on the back wheels and although they don't really stand out too much at all, they are silver, so Im considering spraying them black, too to tie in with the wheels. Mechanic reckons they're grand as silver as they break it up a bit but I'll see how I feel. They're really not noticeable though so i may not bother at all.
I am contemplating changing the wheel centre caps, but again, not sure if I will or not. I dont mind the ones on it, but I think black and silver ones could look a bit better. Like these:
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/CITROEN-4pcs-Wheel-Centre-Caps-60-55mm-Front-Rare-Caps-Hub-Rim-Covers-/262222489832?hash=item3d0dada8e8:g:OpcAAOSwgQ9V6kLO0 -
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