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 Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:12 am |
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Bonnet alarm works a treat used a hole that was for the old rubber bung for the bonnet witch isn't used due to me having pins, so just chopped the connecter off, solderd new wire on and wired up the switch it took around 10mins lol.
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:43 pm |
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I won some nimrods off eBay in the week and picked them up today £80 with 4 tyres. 3with 5mm and 1thats looks new 2bh
The seller was refurbing them to put in his pug, but his engine blew so scrapped the car and left these in the shed, any ways they have been rubbed down and 1 has been painted so I just sampling what they will look like when all of them are painted.
Comments/advice please everyone.
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Last edited by spike_202 on Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:46 pm; edited 1 time in total
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Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:46 pm |
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Big improvement over the Fondres mate... but get them down to City Powdercoaters so they look mint bud. Best thing I did tbh.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:17 am |
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nice one Uz, this is going to sound stupid but can they powder-coat like car colours? not just a standard black,red,white ect, as the 1 you see here is in vauxhall insignia black and i love how it looks but i want all 4 done as they will match then
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 7:27 am |
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im also wanting to know if i can use my current alloy bolts off my ph1 gti alloys they have flat washers
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:05 am |
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Just sent you a pm about the bolts bud
They look a lot better imo even though I fond of the original gti alloys
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 8:16 am |
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i'm still keeping the old ones harry so you will still see them lol keeping them for track/spear set as they've not long had 4 new parada spec 2s put on.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:04 am |
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Bolts should be fine. As long as you've got at least 5 or 6 full turns into the hub. Disc will be about 8mm at most thick over the hub, leaving at least 7 threads on your bolts.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 9:27 am |
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| KrisB wrote: |
| Bolts should be fine. As long as you've got at least 5 or 6 full turns into the hub. Disc will be about 8mm at most thick over the hub, leaving at least 7 threads on your bolts. |
nice one kris, ive been told these are from the older generation pugs i.e the ph1 gtis and 306s ect, but they fit and have 20mm poking thru the back and like you said including the disc i still should have more than enough threads.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:03 am |
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I didn't even look at the bolt type in the picture 
Yes they are the older bolts, but fit every pug flat seated alloy
Good shout using them for track rather than nimrods. I'm just having a couple of sets of crappy wheels, once the brake dusts gets all over them you stop caring
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:28 am |
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Do you know anything about Powdercoating?
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 10:39 am |
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Yeah, what do you need to know?
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:22 pm |
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can they powder-coat like car colours? not just a standard black,red,white ect, as the 1 you see here is in vauxhall insignia black and i love how it looks but i want all 4 done as they will match then
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:40 pm |
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They can do in loads of colours, but no where near the amount of variations like paint mixing.
With black you work up shade levels from white to black and then gloss level (normally matt, low, medium, high etc)
Really depends who you go to. You can't mix it so it depends on what powders they buy in. You could get them to buy some in especially but in reality they can only do largish orders. The amount needed for some wheels is so small it just isn't worth it for the rest to be sitting around as spare stock for years.
If you want that exact colour you could try and get a very dark anthracite or grey. It doesn't look quite black to me.
Best to go in with a picture and ask then they can compare it to a colour chart and give their advice.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2013 1:36 pm |
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It's the vahaxhall insignia like black/charcoal as the lads brother works for vahaxhall and tryed that colour and I really like it so want to get them all fine like that. Know of any good alloy sprayers then?
How easy its to keep on top of powder coated wheels compared to sprayed wheels?
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