Any tips? Any idea how long each wheel took? Presume you left the wheel off for a while after painting... how long?
Quote from: "phil4"Any tips? Any idea how long each wheel took? Presume you left the wheel off for a while after painting... how long?
Not long, I put the wheel right back on and moved onto the next one myself.
My dealer actually did mine, but I am going to give them another coat as the paint is a bit thin in places. The advice I was given was just to take your time and be careful with the brush!
I'm going to take the wheels off to do it (I have to now with those multi-spokes), one at a time (only have the Toyota jack) and then put a rag on the inside of the rim in case any paint drips. I then won't drive the car for 24 hours to make sure it has dried properly.
I painted mine myself, and it took about 30-45 mins per wheel because I was being careful! I also had to go back and do the first one again as the paint was really watery when I started, and didn't thicken up for a while...
I have 2 jacks so left the wheels off for a few hours and then didn't drive it for a few more hours (the tin says to leave if for 24hrs)
Tips:
1) Make sure you have time to paint them all before it starts raining, or else you'll be driving around for months with only the fronts painted... s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
2) Don't mix the hardener and paint in a plastic pot, unless you too want a rosso red heat resistant drive! s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
Quote from: "Chris"unless you too want a rosso red heat resistant drive! s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
As I've got a red motor... that wouldn't look too out of place s:) :) s:)
Quote from: "Chris"I have 2 jacks so left the wheels off for a few hours
Why the need to leave the wheels off? There's ZERO possibility of a wheel touching a caliper, unless you have some
serious geometry problems... s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
dunno, just made me feel better, as i thought there would be more air around to dry them!
just my strange ways...
Quote from: "pmdye"Why the need to leave the wheels off? There's ZERO possibility of a wheel touching a caliper, unless you have some serious geometry problems... s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
And I'm guessing if it did, you might have something looking similar to a Mr R. Barichello's recent problem with a Ferrari rear left. s:) :) s:)
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Quote from: "pmdye"Why the need to leave the wheels off? There's ZERO possibility of a wheel touching a caliper, unless you have some serious geometry problems... s:shock: :shock: s:shock:
All I can say is that when I bought those 17" rims, they had red paint splodges on them where the guy had painted the calipers and it had dripped while drying onto the wheel. That's why in my tips above I said put the wheel back on, but stick a bit of rag inside the rim to catch any drips.
Any preference to paint manufacturer?
I was going to use the Halfords stuff, but I was hoping to do them silver or black and Halfords only do Red, Blue & Yellow.
Try FoliaTec or FolioTec (sp? sorry!) They should sell that in halfords too... near the max muppet section.
Another vote for Foliatec. Comes with a cleaner spray as well.
I used Foliatec too, also bought from Halfords, gave each caliper two coats and still have more than half left in each tin, annoying thing is you are advised not to drive the car for twenty four hours to let the paint harden.
I also did my own using Foliatec bought from Halfords. They do it in Silver, Black, Red, a beautiful Gold and a horrible Blue s:lol: :lol: s:lol: . took 3 hours give all four calipers two coats. Looks the dogs danglies.
I will have to go and find some, the trouble is I feel far too old to be in that section of Halfords!
Why, how old are you dancarbon? No one will be bothered how old you are as long as you have the readies to give them. You could always wear a disguise, say, blonde wig, skirt high heels, sussies stop it ,stop it. Other option try mail order. Good luck.
GOLD!!! Urgh, it's just so seventies s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Now your showing your age, mind you, you did say you are 70year old MR2blue s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Where are the pics, Cartell!!? s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Slacey, why do you want pics s:? :? s:? , don't you believe me. Seriously, I will post them as soon as I can.
Quote from: "cartell"Slacey, why do you want pics s:? :? s:? , don't you believe me. Seriously, I will post them as soon as I can.
Yes, Cartell, I do believe you, as Kris said on the other (Chester) thread, I love gold! s:D :D s:D
I'm on 12 hr days next two days, just for you Slacey I will get them done Friday s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Quote from: "cartell"I'm on 12 hr days next two days, just for you Slacey I will get them done Friday s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
I'm touched! s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
I've heard s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
Quote from: "cartell"Why, how old are you dancarbon? No one will be bothered how old you are as long as you have the readies to give them. You could always wear a disguise, say, blonde wig, skirt high heels, sussies stop it ,stop it. Other option try mail order. Good luck.
Only in my 30's.
I suppose I could pull my jeans to half mast, wear a Nike sweatshirt (XXL size so it comes to my knees), slouch my shoulders and of course, the baseball cap.... s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Cartell, two things.
1. Don't go there with the age thing, cos I'll always be 10 years younger than you s:lol: :lol: s:lol:
2. When you get your Box brownie out take the pic in twilight and don't use a flash, otherwise the glare will blind you. s:twisted: :twisted: s:twisted:
Quote from: "dancarbon"Only in my 30's.
I suppose I could pull my jeans to half mast, wear a Nike sweatshirt (XXL size so it comes to my knees), slouch my shoulders and of course, the baseball cap.... s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Wow Dan, you really
are in touch with today's youth!
Want me to go to Halfords for you?...
s:P :P s:P
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Finally as requested my Lovely Shiny, oops, Shinny 2 with gold calipers.
Thanks to Slacey for info on how to get them to you all. Hope it works s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
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Quote from: "cartell"Finally as requested my Lovely Shiny, oops, Shinny 2 with gold calipers.
Thanks to Slacey for info on how to get them to you all. Hope it works s:oops: :oops: s:oops:
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Unfortunately you cannot point to pictures that are being held on your local hard disk - this will only work when being viewed on
your machine. E-Mail the piccies to me (E-mail address sent to you as PM) and I'll host them for you.
SteveJ
Site Admin
Almost, Cartell - good try with my dodgy instructions, but it looks like you missed the uploading to Spydermagazine bit.
As Steve said, if you mail them to him, he will host them and do the rest.
Or me... im here now and will upload them right away if you want.
Send them to e
mr2roc@mr2-roadster.co.uk e
Isn't it nice to have people fighting over you!!! Thanks to everyone, hope you like car. Give me construtive feedback I can take anything you wish to throw at me.
Have you mailed them to Steve or Kris then?
Yes.
Must be steve - i aint got em.
It is, but thanks again.
Steve! STEVE!!!
Where are those pics?
Don't tell me you have better things to do on a Saturday afternoon than pander to us lot! s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
Steve, don't want to rush you, but where are the pics did you get them.
Quote from: "cartell"Steve, don't want to rush you, but where are the pics did you get them.
Well i did try to offer my services and would have had them up the same day... s:roll: :roll: s:roll:
s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
My local store only had it in gold, blue and yellow... not much use to me s:) :) s:) Will have to try another store.
Sorry for the delay - here are the pictures of Cartell's '2
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(http://www.mr2roadster.org/users/cartell/MR2005small.jpg)
Click HERE for bigger view (http://www.mr2roadster.org/users/cartell/MR2005.jpg)
(http://www.mr2roadster.org/users/cartell/MR2010small.jpg)
Click HERE for bigger view (http://www.mr2roadster.org/users/cartell/MR2010.jpg)
Gold calipers look alright actually - better than what i thought (And what spoiler is that?)
I agree, the gold does indeed look very nice. The pics were a long time coming, but worth it - nice car, Cartell! s:D :D s:D
Kris, the spoiler is a TRD style spoiler supplied by Alan Tang e-mail w www.pow-r.co.uk (http://www.pow-r.co.uk) w glad you like it had it supplied in primer and painted at local paint shop, made excellent job of spraying £60.00.
Steve, thanks for posting pics. MR2blue eat your heart out.
Credit where it's due Cartell, car looks superb s:wink: :wink: s:wink:
I really do appreciate that MR2blue.