my car's "new look"
05-10-03, 03:15 PM
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my car's "new look"
The wheels were lookin' mighty nasty so I decided to clean 'em up, polish the rims and paint the rest. What do ya'll think of my car's "new look"?
WOW! thats all i gotta say, those rims look awsome. thats it i gotta go clean mines now too 
05-10-03, 04:27 PM
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Thanks! I wanted to get 'em powder-coated but the guy wanted 50 bucks a pop. At that price it just wasn't worth it. Even though I rattle canned these I think they'll hold up. Time will of course tell.
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05-10-03, 04:47 PM
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that looks really good, oh and i'm going on 1 year for my rattle can wheels and they are holding up fine.
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I also sprayed my stock rims this weekend, but I did the whole rim. Mine where peeling bad and I just wanted to cover them up. lol I was running some 17's on it, but they get old fast. Ride is much better and the car even feels faster with the stock 13's 
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05-11-03, 02:43 PM
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Thanks for the kind words guys! It makes it look like whole different car IMO. I like the way the wheels seem to set off the black trim. I wonder how she'd look with some darker tinted windows? hmmmmm...
ioTus - a special thanks to you my friend! It was your quick photoshop work that convinced me to "got for it" and it came out just as I envisioned. Thanks!
Matty's first 1st Gen - yeah I have like 4 or 5 coats of polyurethane "wheel" clearcoat on those suckers. I hope that's enough!
It makes it look like whole different car IMO. I like the way the wheels seem to set off the black trim. I wonder how she'd look with some darker tinted windows? hmmmmm...ioTus - a special thanks to you my friend! It was your quick photoshop work that convinced me to "got for it" and it came out just as I envisioned. Thanks!
Matty's first 1st Gen - yeah I have like 4 or 5 coats of polyurethane "wheel" clearcoat on those suckers. I hope that's enough!
05-11-03, 03:12 PM
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yea good advice about clearcoat, when i redid my wheels i used clearcoat made for wood (oops should have read the label a little better) and after going through the winter its all flaking off and turning yellow. Oye, oh well, time to redo them again i guess. Where do they sell wheel specific clear coat?
05-11-03, 03:32 PM
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Originally posted by 82transam
Where do they sell wheel specific clear coat?
Where do they sell wheel specific clear coat?
To be honest I have 2 kinds of clear coat on my wheels. I started with 2 coats of "Glisten-PC" from POR-15. It's a two-part hardening clear coat. It woulda been perfect but the problem is I didn't have a spray gun so I brushed it on. Not good! It came out all uneven and kinda looked crappy. I let that clearcoat cure for a few days, lightly sanded it then spayed several coats of the polyurethane wheel clearcoat over top of it. I'm pretty happy with the results.
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