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Steve
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5th May 06 at 20:00   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Started restoring the centre caps, as the wheels that i had sent me, although mint and spotless, had chronic flaking centre caps.

This is how they all were



Rubbed um down and masked over the bolts, and applied primer



Then applied several layers of chrome paint, then bought some Plastikote stuff which is great.





Just need to laquer them tomorrow, looking a bit healthier than they were
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5th May 06 at 20:01   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
More prep work required
they look better but you should have taken more time on em
Steve
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5th May 06 at 20:03   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
the middle bits and scrathed and lump cause i was scrathing them to see how dry they wer, the caps will go over that bit anway , they are just centre caps man, not a wing, hardly noticable and dont forget the bolt holes have masking over them so looks messy atm but wont when they are removed

[Edited on 05-05-2006 by Steve]
Kyle T
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5th May 06 at 20:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looks a bit rough, good effort though

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Jake
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5th May 06 at 20:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
its better than before anyway
Steve
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you lot do realise there is masking to remove and the centres of them will look rough as iv touched them? i can only see a tiny few imperfections elsewhere that you cant even see unless your within 4 inches of them from your face

youl see they look fine when iv got the seat centres on and all the masking off tomorrow

[Edited on 05-05-2006 by Steve]
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5th May 06 at 23:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
get a pic of all the masking tape etc off...

will look alot better though...
Andy Stocker
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6th May 06 at 05:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
When I tried to laquer that stuff before it went all dark
Steve
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6th May 06 at 06:44   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah might not bother with laquer on 2nd thorts, ne1 confirm?
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6th May 06 at 07:57   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
finished cap then
Kyle T
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Would look better with just the SEAT "S" rather than the logo and the text.

Turned out alrite tho

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6th May 06 at 08:02   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
aye, i might buy some black caps just like the ones in my old rims, these will suffice for now, easily swappable
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6th May 06 at 08:05   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Indeed, Pics on car?

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Steve
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6th May 06 at 08:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
will do in a bit
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6th May 06 at 08:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
see this for pis of wheels with the crappy old centre caps

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=282324
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Think it looked better with the old ones TBH, looks like a lower spec now.
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yeah they'd put 17's on a lower spec model and 16's on the top model wouldnt they
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6th May 06 at 09:41   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Back to this thread, if you wish to pass comments on the rims on my car do so in my other thread, i will post abuse if you do so in this one

Cap on the wheel


[Edited on 06-05-2006 by Steve]
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Its upside down

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6th May 06 at 09:46   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
unfortunatly i cant stop the wheel rotating unless i dont drive it
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Look's really good Schteven, good effort
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6th May 06 at 10:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i dont think they look that rough as what people were making out
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They look tacky as the rest of the wheel is not 'chrome'.

Would look better if they were the same colour as the rest of the wheel.

And just the S badge, no SEAT below it, would look better too.
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No they look quite good

I didn't realise there was a SEAT sticker
going in the middle
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6th May 06 at 11:23   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Simon L
They look tacky as the rest of the wheel is not 'chrome'.


thats how they come as standard

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