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The "Today I did something to my car" thread

L-M

I did this

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dar83

gollywog wrote: »

Ha ha nice!

And cheers Dar, might give that a go soon!
Where did you order the plastidip?

Got the Black from the CleanCar guys, but they don't have the Metalizer, you have to get that direct from PlastiDip themselves...

www.plastidip.co.uk

http://www.plastidip.co.uk/eStore/index.cfm?Metalizer&stage=3&pid=PLD-0131&colour=Silver

Mc Love

Dar - you should do a "how to" in the DIY section - would love to see how you do it.

dar83

Mc Love wrote: »

Dar - you should do a "how to" in the DIY section - would love to see how you do it.

Alrighty, I'll do up a proper How To when I do the alloys that are on the car as it seems a few people might appreciate it.

I will be planning on doing them as soon as possible, but I'll need a dry day that hopefully wont be too cold so the PlastiDip sets well... So I might be waiting till March then!

Possibly next weekend, if the weather is clear for one of those days!

Mc Love

Deadly stuff!

Hal1

Well it is supposed to be good and dry on Monday so...:D

dar83

Hal1 wrote: »

Well it is supposed to be good and dry on Monday so...:D

Not according to the iPhone weather App...

I'd love it to be dry tomorrow, if it is then I'll be getting the axle stands out!

challengemaster

dar83 wrote: »

The middle...

Final result...

dar83 wrote: »

It's a top secret PlastiDip process I may have created (ie. stole).

It's basically a standard Black PlastiDip base, but to get a metallic Gun Metal Grey finish, you use PlastiDip Silver Metalizer on top of it.

So basically same way as painting shadow-chrome? :P

Have to say, I much prefer the "middle" to the "final", but maybe in person that might change

dar83

The middle and final actually look quite different in person to the pictures.

The middle is a Matte Black in person, it looks strangely satin/grey in the pic. The final result isn't as shiny as it looks in the final pics there either. It actually changed slightly over night as well as it cured and now looks like below:

(still probably doesn't come out the way it actually looks in the pic, but that's a lot closer in natural light once it had dried)

gollywog

dar83 wrote: »

The middle and final actually look quite different in person to the pictures.

The middle is a Matte Black in person, it looks strangely satin/grey in the pic. The final result isn't as shiny as it looks in the final pics there either. It actually changed slightly over night as well as it cured and now looks like below:

(still probably doesn't come out the way it actually looks in the pic, but that's a lot closer in natural light once it had dried)

God damn you dar!!

Im texting a lad about a second hand set of 18" monzas now

Toyotafanboi

not today, but this week

2 new firestones up front
new oil and filter
coolant system flushed and new coolant
headlights focused
****ty low suspension replaced with originals
being tracked in the morning

spent all morning cleaning it and its now sitting under a cosy layer of Jeffs prime, followed by Jeffs addicted to glos with meguiars endurace gel on the tyres and good old turtle wax on the alloys!

NCT at 4.15 tomorrow, come at me!!

dar83

Well here's the process, in the middle obviously at the matte black stage...

(ran out of light)

*Excuse the filth of the car

Daniel S

dar83 wrote: »

Well here's the process, in the middle obviously at the matte black stage...

(ran out of light)

*Excuse the filth of the car

Looks brilliant!

MuppetCheck

I'd leave them at matt black. That car looks fantastic like that!

Jimdagym

I don't like it. That's a savage car, and the regular alloys finish it beautifully imo.
I think those black alloys are a bit skanger me banger.

renofan

I'd have to agree with Jimdagym tbh. Much prefer the original wheels.

dgt

Gunmetal grey, silver but not matt black, I don't think black wheels suit the car

dar83

I expected divided opinion, but not that much.

Two very positives and three very negatives... interesting.

Daniel S

dar83 wrote: »

I expected divided opinion, but not that much.

Two very positives and three very negatives... interesting.

Well, as someone said, Gun metal grey or a non-matte black might be nicer. I think it looks good on your car, but a lot of skangermobiles have similarly painted wheels.

dar83

Yeah, gun metal is the plan. I just ran out of light yesterday and didn't want to do a dodgy job in the dark.

They'll be black until next weekend anyway, so I'll see how it goes until then.

Tallon

You really have that zetec looking like an st! Nice job

Paddy@CIRL

I think the matte black looks really well on it, maybe an RS spoiler or something might finish it off?

With my own, I sealed the new wheels over the weekend with Chemical Guys Wheel Guard and had them fitted this morning. I'm still running the factory suspension for a few more days (coilovers only arrived today) so thought I might have to put up with some rubbing until the KWs are fitted but they're not rubbing, touching or fouling anywhere much to my surprise. It's a fairly aggressive setup with 19x9.5 ET33 +12mm fronts and 19x9.5 ET33 +15mm rears but I might roll the rears and run a larger spacer at the back.

dar83

Paddy@CIRL wrote: »

I think the matte black looks really well on it, maybe an RS spoiler or something might finish it off?

I could do lots of things to the car and not mind, but fitting an RS spoiler I couldn't do. It's not an RS and I'm even pushing my own boundaries with the Alloys, but because I really like how they look on it I'll allow it. :P

I couldn't do the RS spoiler though, but appreciate the input.

The stance on yours looks great now, really like that car!

dgt

Down on power. Can't have that!

Lack of a smoke stack :pac::pac: gave me the impression that the engine wasn't getting enough fuel.... Time to change the fuel filter

New one

Old un, half way out...

I've seen worse. Buuuuuuut...

It was clogged up with a fine coat of that brown stuff. That filter did just 6k miles :eek: Thankfully they're only £2 a pop. I have a spare one in the boot and a set of allen keys to open the housing

Power is back and so is the smoke stack :pac::pac::pac:

pred racer

We need a new thread,

What dgt did to a car today

Edit: And as an add on to the Bangernomics thread,

Dgt's 406 of the day

L-M

dar83 wrote: »

Well here's the process, in the middle obviously at the matte black stage...

(ran out of light)

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/6659/blackedout.jpg

*Excuse the filth of the car

To be very honest I absolutely hated those RS alloys on that Focus, thought the ST's were waayyy nicer...

But black, they look gooood in black :cool:

MarkR

Picked up some alloys from done deal. 16's, off a passat. Tyres like new. Didn't fit sellers car. Paid just over 300, and the tyres are over 80 each. So free alloys!

L-M

What car didn't they fit?

MarkR

Limerick man wrote: »

What car didn't they fit?

A MK4 Golf.

vectra

MarkR wrote: »

Picked up some alloys from done deal. 16's, off a passat. Tyres like new. Didn't fit sellers car. Paid just over 300, and the tyres are over 80 each. So free alloys!

http://photos2.donedeal.ie/Full-15062201.jpeg

Glad they worked out for you in the end.

Give them a good clean up and seal them before you fit them. :P

Conchurl

wired up a bury cc9060 bluetooth kit in to the 406 yesterday i have it from an old car i have so i had nothing to do yesterday. i also ordered a 'peugeot' sticker for windscreen and a 'Powered by green' sticker yesterday. getting the lights for the trailer wired up now but not by me.