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The "Today I did something to my car" thread

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  • #7202
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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


  • #7203
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


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


  • #7204
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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! :D

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


  • #7205
    Mc Love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,015 ✭✭✭✭Mc Love


    Deadly stuff!


  • #7206
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,719 ✭✭✭Hal1


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


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  • #7207
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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! :D


  • #7208
    challengemaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,930 ✭✭✭✭challengemaster


    dar83 wrote: »

    The middle...

    img1322hd.jpg

    Final result...

    img1328q.jpg
    dar83 wrote: »
    It's a top secret PlastiDip process I may have created (ie. stole). :D

    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


  • #7209
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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:

    endproduct.jpg

    (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)


  • #7210
    gollywog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,344 ✭✭✭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:

    endproduct.jpg

    (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 :o


  • #7211
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭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!!

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    ml4bkj.jpg


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  • #7212
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


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

    (ran out of light)

    blackedout.jpg

    *Excuse the filth of the car


  • #7213
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭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! :)


  • #7214
    MuppetCheck
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,865 ✭✭✭✭MuppetCheck


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


  • #7215
    Jimdagym
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,844 ✭✭✭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.


  • #7216
    renofan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 866 ✭✭✭renofan


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


  • #7217
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


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


  • #7218
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭dar83


    I expected divided opinion, but not that much. :D

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


  • #7219
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    dar83 wrote: »
    I expected divided opinion, but not that much. :D

    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.


  • #7220
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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.


  • #7221
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


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


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  • #7222
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,900 ✭✭✭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.

    photocopy.jpg

    photo-2.jpg


  • #7223
    dar83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,106 ✭✭✭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!


  • #7224
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭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
    Image2399.jpg

    Old un, half way out...
    Image2400.jpg

    I've seen worse. Buuuuuuut...
    Image2401.jpg

    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:


  • #7225
    pred racer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,384 ✭✭✭pred racer


    We need a new thread,

    What dgt did to a car today :D

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

    Dgt's 406 of the day :)


  • #7226
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #7227
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭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!

    Full-15062201.jpeg


  • #7228
    L-M
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,694 ✭✭✭✭L-M


    What car didn't they fit?


  • #7229
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,284 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Limerick man wrote: »
    What car didn't they fit?

    A MK4 Golf.


  • #7230
    vectra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,690 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #7231
    Conchurl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 693 ✭✭✭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.


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