OCD at its best (lots of pics)

[paul]

mates and a gf and my own place why would i not have?! :S

 

[RDH]

Fair play, I'm not judging just curious that's all.

I don't know where I find time to fit cleaning my car to that standard into my life TBH.

 

[paul]

dont forget theres feeding myself/washing/ironing/dusting/hoovering/gardening/cutting trees/shopping/gym/going out drinking etc etc (sure ive missed lot off haha)! lots to do in so little time!

 

[Tom]

You do understand that painting your discs where the wheel fits them is a really bad idea unless you somehow got a uniform coating(electrostat powder coat?) as the thickness will be different all over, the wheel won't run perfectly true with the hub. You should really wire brush the surface on the wheel that butts up against the disc too to get rid of corrosion...

You can buy brake discs with a coating to stop them rusting where the pads don't run these days, would look and work considerably better than painting them...

The paint is soft and once the wheel nuts are all torqued up the wheel will sit level. You're talking about such fine tolerances that the wheel casting will be more out than any affect that painting the disc face will create, not including the general movement of the tyre heating/ cooling as they never ever sit dead centre. Hence for the need to balance them, and I think most weights go down to 5g?

I've done the same to one of mine to see what it looked like and it's been fine. Yeah the paint looks thick in the pics, but once it has dried it will be fine. If you're really that worried about it you could always paint upto the edge where the wheel meets the discs hub

I would seriously check your wheelnuts regularly paul. Painting discs is a bad idea, almost dangerous.

 

[kyle_sxi]

does it ever get driven lol

 

[paul]

for all the comments made regards all the down sides of painting the hub and edge of the disk! (could ruin the bearing/make the wheel sit not true la la la a la la i havent found any problems! and ive driven about 100 miles since doing it and all looks as good as the day i painted it:approve:

 

[Leeshez]

Wow amazing again.

 

[paul]

^ thanks Lee!!

 

[Timmay]

paul - can you take a pic of your car on locarion somewhere? just be nice to see it in somewhere diffeernt

 

[paul]

im at work young Timmay - hope this helps!
http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=342029&highlight=moorgreen :rasp:

 

[martandem]

That is so clean I am actually a little scared!...
How on earth do oyu get the exhaust boxes that clean?! Do you paint them every weekend!?...

 

[paul]

LOL havent painted them for months now! and they still look as good as the day i did them!

 

[paul]

Mounting the wheel anyway has taken the paint off the areas that arent seen - but at least the paint has stayed on the areas i wanted! (that looked rough)

all ok folks! checked last night! all this talk about wheel bearing etc being put under strain and causing your wheel not to sit true! how i laughed!!

 

[nth]

detail mine paul <3

 

[paul]

hehe!

 

[theduck]

should have sprayed them paul, would look much better

 

[Rich]

Oh no - better get the paint back out !

 

[nth]

lol he would probably get the paint off during his next detail

 

[paul]

LOL ^ i dont mine them being like that! all this talk about people saying it was the wrong thing! when the wheels are on really looks good! imo!

 

[paul]

should have sprayed them paul, would look much better

i had the paint to hand and im pleased with the results! have done this before and the results wouldnt have been any better to be honest! im good with a brush!

 

[theduck]

jsut looks very 'textured' though i suppose this could be the caliper etc it self

 

[paul]

when i took the picture to start with it was still wet! but the caliper has a rough texture to it yes! - looks a lot better than it did at least

 

[fil_b]

looks cool

will have to arrange catching up soon

need a trip up your way

 

[paul]

^

 

[clio182_fan]

Looks mint - well done !!!.

What mileage is on the car ????

 

[paul]

20600 :approve: thanks!