so the wheels the car was bought with are finally done..
from this
The tyres are 2 x Event tyres on the front, and one Runway and one Sunny on the rear, but every tyre was like new... Staggered sizes too.
I knew I had to change at least one rear, just to get at least matching tread patterns across the axle, but this refurb was to be done on a budget just to see if I could salvage the wheels. Tyres would be changed later for named ones but would work for now albeit with one £60 change from the Sunny to a Runway.
Then, after two bolts snapped, I was wondering whether or not to continue or just throw them, but I carried on even though I had a pig to remove them using cobalt drill bits and a 7.5mm tap.
After that I got rid of all the kerbing and corrosion with scotch-brite pads on a drill,
and the inside of the wheels had to have a cup wire brush on an angle grinder to get rid of the corrosion.
So I tried just one rim and one inner Rim etch primed
and then coated in Halfords 'silver'
I got two different colours from Halfords
Rattle cans of 'silver' for the rims and 'Steel' (hopefully darker grey) for the inners,
I rubbed down the inners
and etch primered them
After rubbing that down and then top coating a few coats, everything was going along ticketty boo.
until I laquered one wheel rim and one inner.
There were runs everywhere on the inner...... and also, 'spot the difference' in colours, hardly noticeable.
So I left it a day and tried to rub it down, and the laquer just flaked off, and as I subsequently found out, so did the wheel rim.
In fact the laquer blasted off with my pressure washer..
That was it they were now heading for the tip..I had had enough.
My missus actually swayed me with the argument I had been working on them so long it would be a waste of all my efforts and why not send them to be done elswhere now all the prep was done.
So I actually thought the rims could be OK if I tried again, but using hammerite silver, and this time I will send the inners for powder coating
So the rims were redone, awaiting a weeks work of delay on the inners
looking definitely lighter.
and then the Inners came back, ready for a trial fit, with newly purchased centre badges
so all bolted back together using Loctite thread lock and 2 new m7 titanium bolts. and trial fitted:
But then the missus said as they are new I should have them on my Z3
(think she prefers the 19's)
Anyway choices choices,
Tried a few different looks today:
They were on the way to the tip, on two separate occasions!
