spring has sprung - painting hubs & calipers and detarring wheels
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spring has sprung - painting hubs & calipers and detarring wheels
Ok....took some time out today as the weather was just soo nice
Decided to look out the silver hammerite, brushes and in leiu of Autoglym tar remover, some petrol and made a start.
Took around an hour or so per corner, removed the wheels and put aside, and repainted the hubs and calipers. Whilst that was drying I turned my attention to the wheels...They were covered in dozens and doezens of tar spots, so I fist gave them a quick wash and then liberally applied the petrol and worked it in with a rag. The tar spots soon came away and then I re washed them with hot soapy water and dried carefully with a microfibre.
Then back on to the car they went and then a nice coating of wet n black to the tyres for a great result.......All good for another year
See pics below.....
pics are from my camera phone so not the best quality but you get the idea
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Thanks Dave, nice of you to say so. Kind of rough compared to the work you do but its really revived them.
The cars been washed to an inch of its life today and the interior carpets and upholstery done too.
I'll be going over the plastics tomorrow with Autoglym rubber and vinyl to feed them as well as the door rubbers etc, maybe just rty and shine the exhaust tips up a little more too!
Its never really hard work tbh as she's done very regularly so normally and hour or two is all thats needed.
I am looking to attend an Audi meet on Sunday at Glen Turret Distillery, maybe around 80 cars, so should be a good day and want her to look her best
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