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My 3rd Golf !!!
RC84:
--- Quote from: millar95 on August 17, 2015, 02:38:17 pm ---Thanks mate ! yeah painted in situ. Steel brushed everything and wiped the calipers and hubs with some degreaser. I just covered the caliper with a cloth and put cardboard behind the disc to cover most of the wheel arch etc and sprayed the hub with hammerite smooth silver spray paint. I just wiped the excess off with degreaser and spun the disk round a bit to get the spot that was hidden.
For the calipers I just used a tin of the red halfords paint and a half inch brush and gave them 2 coats each! Came up really well!
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Cheers dude, I'm gonna do mine soon so any advice is good advice :grin:
bluebert92:
--- Quote from: millar95 on August 17, 2015, 10:22:19 pm ---You can't go wrong! Nice and easy way to smarten things up :drinking:
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Took me from 9am to 2pm but I'm happy with the results! Thanks for the tips millar!
millar95:
Nice one ! looks great mate ! :notworthy:
millar95:
UPDATE
So at the weekend my OCD kicked in and I decided to tidy up the front wheel arches and have a look at the condition of the sills behind the arch liners as its a pretty weak spot on the mk5 and probably alot of other cars too !
I started off by undoing all the screws that hold the liner in place and then wiggled it out...
This revealed 10 years worth of dirt and crap ! :sick:
Passenger Side
When I went round to the drivers side and it was all cleaned up, I noticed a bit of surface rust in the same area...
Outcame the sand paper, primer and black paint to try and sort this out :fighting:
Once I had sorted that I got a bit carried away and decided to give the shockers and most rusty looking bits a coat of black hammerite :evilgrin:
I gave the liners a good clean and a coating of chemical guys trim gel to bring them back to life...
I also took the little retaining clips of the calipers gave them a coat of silver hammerite and I also painted the 2 most noticeable screws in the wheel arch silver as it gives a really clean look IMO :smiley:
I had also previously painted the steering wheel caps or whatever they are called black as they looked a bit tatty. But I decided to also paint the GTI part of the steering wheel in black as well to finish off the look :wink: Once I had painted it black though the GTI letters didn't really stand out so I used a tornado red touch up stick to go over the letters, its not perfect but I think it looks pretty cool :signLOL:
Shoduchi:
Nice work. :congrats:
PS: I think the screws in the liners you painted silver are originally black. :wink:
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