My 5th

[Fons[DutchGuy]]

Not the most usual use for a lude

Nope but she handled it well

[Fons[DutchGuy]]

So yeah, I've been away for a while (forum wise). But the weather is picking up so I'm trowing myself on the street again to do some work on the lude. In the old posts there was a lot of shopping going on but no buying yet. That's because having your own home turns out to be quite expensive. ..
But got my long promised promotion this month have a few penny's to spend now (next month will be better due to some unexpected bills). First things first, she seriously needed a proper clean so bought a few buckets sponges rim cleaning agent (for the wheels you pervs) and some turtle wax
Result!!!

By the time I was done the sun went down and I made some dramatic streetlight lighted pics c:
Shuld have emptied that bucket somewhere else

So now the butterflies in the tummy from having a nice car are back!! Yay
And since I got al motivated by al the shiney stuff I decided to start with a little something today. I'll be posting about that when finished

[Doggo]

Nice to see a polished rim... and you've waxed your turt... used the....polished your... used the turtle to wax... ...it looks shiny and you look happy anyway

[mercutio]

looks really good fons

[Fons[DutchGuy]]

Finished the little project I was talking about and it turned out to take longer than expected...
I thought I would be done in a weekend, nope
I was done with the boring old grey so decided to paint the rims.
first cleaning, than mark where the weights are positioned on the wheels and remove them, after that time for sanding paper!

(the point of no return)
after that I filled up the rim rash with filler primer and gave it a second sanding to smooth it al out and get rid of the corrosion in the corners.

The filler primer

after sanding it back again to make it unicorn smooth
now a coat of primer:

Let it dry and after that it was ready for paint, yay!! Decided to go for gloss white since you can't go wrong with black or white.


And now why it took so long... After primer I made the stupid mistake to sand back the last imperfections before paint and did not re-prime them, so:


A lot of swearing

after crying in a corner and drinking away my sorrows I went for take 2:

After repeating the steps above and this time making sure it was covered in primer properly this was the result:

and to score some extra JDM points decided the quality mark needed some black

after clear coat, Finshed!! well chuffed

well almost.. Since I've only got 2 spare rims laying around I was only able to do 2 at a time so this was only halfway trough
Oh did I mention that those spare rims have massive offset and where old driftcar rims?

looked like that for a week

Finally a before and after pic.

and how she looks right now (don't mind the dirty car )


ps. still does need some tire black

[Merlin]

They look very nice

[Fons[DutchGuy]]

Thanks!!

[nitin_s1]

Good Job!

[wurlycorner]

Well done.

I really don't have the patience myself for arsing about with fiddly sanding/spraying malarkey - give me a spanner and point me at a car squirting LHM in preference to that, any day!

[Fons[DutchGuy]]

Haha thanks guys, and wurly to be honest I prefer the dirty oily jobs like you.