My weekends work is done!

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At last, some pics of the 205 with my new refurb'd wheels. It took bloody ages, but all the sanding appears to have paid off. I also took a jetwash to the arches and have had them properly resprayed.

Here's the pics:

wheel1.jpg


wheel2.jpg



And this image... is just perverted:

wheel3.jpg
 
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Not sure about the white wheels. Aren't they supposed to be silver?

I take it you had plenty of white paint left for the arches. Can't see em staying white for long ;)

Looks like you did a good job of it though. Nice mint looking car.
 
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Yeah the wheels are supposed to be silver. I wasn't sure about going for white at first, but its grown on me. It'll be easy enough to put them to silver if I need to. All the prep work is done.

The MR2 was sold for my zx6r, which is sadly dead. Back to scratch with the 205 GTI ;) which is arguably a better / more fun car.
 

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Looks very nice indeed mate, muchos fun cars :) I think the white rims look great as do the wheel arches, if you can keep them clean!
 
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Centre caps on the back to be put on. I forgot to paint them at the same time.

On the wheels I took the paint down until it was smooth to touch all over. I grinded the kerbed parts out of the rim with my Wizard (dremel type tool). Then I primed the wheel with 4 coats. Sanded down lightly, then applied 4 coats of paint. Left overnight and sanded down lightly. Then 3 coats of laquer.

The arches were simply cleaned thouroughly with the jetwash then I gave them 3 coats of primer. I'll wait to see how they last with the primer. I might end up undersealing the arches white.
 
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