Goodwood Rims

[Paintguy 0]

I think they looked better before...

 

Nah, they look great, and I think they suit the colour of your car very nicely

[Phil H 16]

You can almost hear the "ting" as they are so shiny.

Don't think much to the one on the pavement though?

[GLPoomobile 958]

Your 205 is so green it's bled on to the Focus next to it!

[welshpug 1,622]

Very very nice, I'm sure the time you've put into them is worth it.

 

My mate was quite envious when I showed him one of the pics, as his car is J688 GAM!! a very tidy white 1.6 gti.

[pete1986 2]

Very nice indeed! I lovce lazer green's, even more so with goodwoods on. Might give mine go

 

So how do you go about repairing kerb damage on wheels? And corrosion as well for that matter?

[steve@cornwall 100]

Very nice indeed! I lovce lazer green's, even more so with goodwoods on. Might give mine go

 

So how do you go about repairing kerb damage on wheels? And corrosion as well for that matter?

 

Most of the marking, although it looked quite deep, was only in the paint, but for larger kerbing damage I started by drawing the rounded shank of a large screwdriver across the damage, with lots of pressure, this puts the high spots back down and shrinks the mark a fair bit. I then shaved the rim with a serrated paring knife from Tesco!!!!! covering about 6" of the lip circumference at a time, with damage at the centre - you can shave more at the back, slightly altering the angle of the lip, but is so subtle over this distance that it doesn't show. Do the same around the outer circumference. Then I shaved out the furrows this left using a Stanley blade before starting smoothing it all out with ascending grades of emery cloth, followed by coarse then fine steel wool (with lighter pressure as you go). Finally, metal polish finishes it all off.

For masking, use short lengths of masking tape with at least 5mm overlapping into the centre of the wheel, then trim this back with a sharp blade, using the inner radius as a guide for the blade, then mask off the rest of the rim. You can use a flat piece of wet and dry paperat 45 deg. to the "corner between paint and rim to really tidy the edge afterwards.

This worked for me, but I'm sure there are other methods that have been used.

Costs just under a tenner a wheel

[S13Nick 0]

Well that one's looking pretty mint! How long has it taken from start to finish?

 

I'm thinking of doing this on my wheels as the rims are currently painted white but that's starting to peel so thinking some bare metal would look better!

 

Here's mine at the mo...

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii9/dav...ck/DSC05060.jpg

 

What does anyone else think? Am I better off keeping them white, or would some more traditional goodwood style do it better?

 

Dave

 

 

OMG!!!!!!!!!! i found a picture of your car off google an it is the background on my phone.... Fit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Baz 421]

About 5 hrs. / rim

 

Yup that rings a bell...

 

Haven't finished mine yet, started them aaages ago too!

 

 

 

Although i've done the very lip of these since;

 

 

[Fox 3]

Wow they look fantastic!

 

So, just to clear up, you polished the lip, then masked it up, then painted the middle bit.

 

What paint/primer etc did you use on the wheels?

[steve@cornwall 100]

Wow they look fantastic!

 

So, just to clear up, you polished the lip, then masked it up, then painted the middle bit.

 

What paint/primer etc did you use on the wheels?

 

Good old Halfords Graphite grey in a tin! and lacquer to finish

[Maccer 0]

Those wheels are great, top job! Really want to get some old speedlines and make myself a set to go on my graphite grey pug but not sure if that would look really good or just really grey!!?

[steve@cornwall 100]

Put this one up just because I like the pic!

 

[Baz 421]

I've been doing these recently...

 

 

[steve@cornwall 100]

Now, those are going to eat up the hours! and be worth every minute.

[Baz 421]

A little time consuming yes, i've stopped counting the hours on them like i did on the speedlines... But i guess the speedlines wre a bit of a learning curve too!

[steve@cornwall 100]

A little time consuming yes, i've stopped counting the hours on them like i did on the speedlines... But i guess the speedlines wre a bit of a learning curve too!

 

Have you tried steel wool at all? quicker than the finer grades of wet and dry, and with a very slight hand pressure will actually polish, too

[welshpug 1,622]

that's what I used on my goodwood wheels Steve, started with the wire brush to remove the oxidisation, then the wire wool, moving to the very fine wet n dry to flat it off, then the cotton polishing cloth.

[Baz 421]

I haven't no!! I shall have to give it a try now though, hadn't thought of it!

[dirtdog 4]

absolutley gorgeous wheels. i'd really like to get mine done but im not sure they'd match the STDT beige/gold colour until they are done and fitted what does everyone else think?

 

i love the idea of that jack method!!

[Fox 3]

I got mine back from powder-coating yesterday, I wonder if I could polish the lip now? or would it pull off the coating?

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

I got mine back from powder-coating yesterday, I wonder if I could polish the lip now? or would it pull off the coating?

 

You would need to be careful as powdercoating is more brittle and may chip off further that just the rim. I would cand the edge to seperate the wheel powdercoating from the rim powdercoating

 

I would like to polish the rim and dish on these but it does sound like there are many hours work there

[calvinhorse 870]

do it!!!

[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

do it!!!

There is many hours of rapid wrist action involved. Wanna do it for me Cal?!

[Baz 421]

 

You could just do the very lip, like on the cross spokes i posted previously. That didn't take too long tbh.

 

Crap pic, but you get the idea;

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f255/205.../DSC00003-1.jpg

Edited July 28, 2008 by cybernck
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[Henry Yorke 269 3 Cars]

Yeah true, but I just want Cal to come round and use his wrist action on my 15"!!

 

Seriously though, I would like them like your Fondmetals. However dished wheels are bad for picking up stones and running round the rim, scratching any paint and laquer etc. Also you can't beat spokes reflected in a big dish. There is something almost German about it!