I finally got the car back yesterday after the "8x the limit on the MOT emissions" fiasco. It came with de-tangoed front indicators(although orange bulbs). Now, I am a bit of a fan of orange, and re-tangoing is obviously the best way to go. However, short of cash, I'm not going to buy new lenses - noo! I'll find another way to slip some orange in under the radar 
I have been down one hubcap since one fell off and was promptly flattened by a car. This looked properly shoddy, as I'm sure you can imagine, so I removed all three remaining and left them with the black steelies. Obviously this is pretty boring and after seeing the orange paint left from my tech coursework clashing beautifully with my paintwork, I decided to give this a shot to realise my orange coloured dream, so I bought another can of the paint and primer.
Process:
1) Wash wheels with a bit of water and a brush.. I didn't put too much effort into this.
2) Wet sand the paint on the outside edge (who bothers painting the inside
) Again, not much effort here.
3) Mask off with tape + paper
4) 2 coats of white primer
5) 2 coats of orange
6) remove, admire and repeat three times.
Took about two hours for all four.
The finished product:
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(bonnet is slightly open here.)
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(dad, not me)
I'm not sure what happened with the camber in this last picture, but the wheels don't usually look to be at such strange angles.. God knows how that happened..
This has probably been done plenty of times, but I personally haven't seen it before and think it's quite funny..
Views?
I have been down one hubcap since one fell off and was promptly flattened by a car. This looked properly shoddy, as I'm sure you can imagine, so I removed all three remaining and left them with the black steelies. Obviously this is pretty boring and after seeing the orange paint left from my tech coursework clashing beautifully with my paintwork, I decided to give this a shot to realise my orange coloured dream, so I bought another can of the paint and primer.
Process:
1) Wash wheels with a bit of water and a brush.. I didn't put too much effort into this.
2) Wet sand the paint on the outside edge (who bothers painting the inside
) Again, not much effort here.3) Mask off with tape + paper
4) 2 coats of white primer
5) 2 coats of orange
6) remove, admire and repeat three times.
Took about two hours for all four.
The finished product:
(bonnet is slightly open here.)
I'm not sure what happened with the camber in this last picture, but the wheels don't usually look to be at such strange angles.. God knows how that happened..
This has probably been done plenty of times, but I personally haven't seen it before and think it's quite funny..
Views?
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