My day off work...

[rock]

Went to the local motor shop, waited for owner to pitch in his gold S-class merc (circa 1989)with 20" spinners (LOL)

Bought and over priced "caliper painting kit" - which turned out to be rubbish, think a tin of red toothpaste...(must get my cash back, anyways....)

bought some axle stands.....

first wheel off.....dirtay....

before

after a little scrubbin....

caliper cleaned up with a wire brush....

trusty hammerite at 20% of the cost of the "kit"....

wheel back on

camera batteries died while I cleaned up the rear arched and re sprayed the drums...

learnt 2 new things, my rims that no one likes are called "Taurus" and they are made in Korea....

 

[Cam]

Nice, what did you use to clean the wheels?

 

[Mike-bham]

Thats a pretty good job of cleaning the wheels!

 

[rock]

meg's wheel cleaner, to be honeat I just took a pic of the first wheel I cleaned and it turned out to be the best example, the others all had some bad patches that wouldn't come clean....

 

[Giles]

looks good

 

[RacerStu]

Nice story looks much better

 

[Leeshez]

Nice work

 

[Djw John]

Looks good mate, still got a soft spot for the wheels, cant really explain it!

 

[GarethM]

very nice fella

calipers look good

 

[James.]

spanking, nice one mate

love those alloys

 

[blue nose]

a day well spent me thinks

 

[rock]

aagh...no cash refund on the caliper paint, eventually was able to get a credit and got some speakers.......

 

[Giles]

^^ do you have any rain over there??

 

[rock]

^^ do you have any rain over there??

plenty in winter....but not as much as the UK.....in summer its against the law to wash your car with a hose pipe...LOL.

 

[Jonaldinho]

Good work mate, got one of those over priced caliper painting kits back in the day, was mince. Hammerite all the way now!