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Offline v2brett

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18" monza refurb
« on: October 30, 2008, 10:22:07 pm »
hi all, i had a spare wheel which was badly corroded due to being dropped which chipped the lacquer and caused this;


so then i masked the wheel, and carefully applied paint stripper


after cleaning and neutralising the wheel i then sanded it, starting with 800 wet and dry working up to 1500. after the 1500 i used autosol metal polish and this was the result,



hope this helps anyone planning on a wheel refurb. i have lacquered the wheel now and it looks excellent, i amazed myself with the results :driver:
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2008, 10:24:36 pm »
Looks very good , does it match the others ?, or did you do the same to all 4

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2008, 10:25:15 pm »
^^^ Wow Brett that's great work  :jumping:

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2008, 10:26:24 pm »
WoW your going to be popular on here.  :wink:
I can see red robins little nose twitching already.  :drinking: thats going to be a good fix me thinks to a big problem.

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2008, 10:31:28 pm »
cheers guys, it took around 6 hours so its time consuming. ive just had 3 new wheels fitted under warranty so ill post some pics with this 1 next to them for a comparison.  any queries just ask
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2008, 12:38:09 pm »
Nice work there fella! Makes sense as from what I've seen the whiteworm issue is with the laquer, so removing it and re-applying should do the trick!  :happy2:

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2008, 03:04:51 pm »
Thats a great job there. Dont think I would have the balls to give that a go but im sure this thread will be very useful to other forum users  :happy2: :smiley:
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2008, 06:02:00 pm »
thats what ive been toying with but changing to black inserts, has the CD DISC effect been lost
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2008, 06:03:38 pm »
thats what ive been toying with but changing to black inserts, has the CD DISC effect been lost
billy
Do you mean the diamond cut face.  :confused:

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2008, 07:01:17 pm »
thats what ive been toying with but changing to black inserts, has the CD DISC effect been lost
billy
it has slightly but all sanding was done following the lines on the wheel so it didnt effect it that much
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2008, 07:28:30 pm »
thats what ive been toying with but changing to black inserts, has the CD DISC effect been lost
billy
Do you mean the diamond cut face.  :confused:
yeah diamond cut is wot i meant, CD DISC also works to get across, i love the side view of these wheels with the sun/night lights catches the blue (if thats right) CD DISC effect shine, cool
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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #11 on: November 02, 2008, 03:41:10 pm »
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Wow!! I'm impressed! My Monza's are now as bad as yours, but 6hrs x 4 of the sort of manual labour I'm cr@p at isn't realistic for me. Great for someone else though - A very useful post  :happy2:


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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2011, 07:01:28 pm »
Just came across this thread and im very interested, so im going to give it a shot - not tried nothing gained  :happy2:

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2011, 07:23:30 pm »
Good work, it's amazing what a bit of wet and dry can do and bucket loads of patience :congrats:

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Re: 18" monza refurb
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2015, 01:22:04 pm »
What sort of paint stripper was used here ? Any1 any ideas

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