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DIY Day! Painted wheels, headlights, calipers and more

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Old 04-03-2007, 02:10 PM
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Default DIY Day! Painted wheels, headlights, calipers and more

So yesterday was gorgeous and I had the whole day off from school and work. So i painted my wheels, Headlight housings, Calipers and did some general cleaning.

I used photobuckets new remix thing where you can make slideshows. they had the crappiest music in the world.

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and yea I know I need to get rid of that wheel gap.
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 02:21 PM
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I like the color choice. What did you use to paint them?
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 02:25 PM
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I did One coat of the Engine Enamel Primer, 5 Coats Of Universal Gold Engineenamel, 1 Coat of duplicolor Clear Effex. 5 Coats of Duplicolors Wheel Clear Coat. For the Headlights I used Krylon Plastic Paint.
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 02:35 PM
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where's your center caps, they should look good with the red H emblem on the gold.
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 02:58 PM
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Damn that looks real good. That would have taken me a whole week to do all that.
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 03:17 PM
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Nice job man. Keep it up
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 03:26 PM
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nice man looks good. i didn't notice the headlights at first though cause the wheels stood out so much. I would have used the same body color as the car though when painting the headlights, make them flow more with the car, But still looks kick ***
 
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Old 04-03-2007, 03:33 PM
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Looking good, Ilike the gold with the black.........but you really did all that in one day?
 
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I have those rims and wanted to paint them...did you sand them down at all...and did they have that paint at the auto parts store?
 
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Looks great! Two thumbs up.
 


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