News : My vtr alloy restoration project

[Tc24]

Been doing the same with my wheels. Backs and fronts, starting with 160 grade (shitty, disintegrating) wet & dry, filled any big chunks with chemical metal and they're now primed up and ready to be painted silver at the weekend

Hardest bit is removing all the shite that's built up on the back of the rim, had to resort to a drill and assortment of wire brushes.

Yours are looking good though, would like to see pics once they're on the car.

[Aly]

Originally Posted by LSOfreak

you paid £70 for vtr wheels without tyres that needed a refurb? they saw you coming lol

good job on the wheels though. Wouldve personally done them any other colour than black tbh far too common and dull imo

Just what I was thinking, I bought 4 VTR Wheels with tyres with bubbling paint on them for £40

[Chris-5390]

Originally Posted by mlawlan69

look really really good, i started mine about a month ago, but using the same shite paper that you started using. i bought some sanding wheels from ebay to get them done much faster only to be told by my dad that some pikey bastard had been in our shed and stolen the fucking drill !!!!

so now they are just sat in my garden haha

Just get ya self some heavy duty aluminium oxide paper and hand sand them its prototype fast with same results as drill sanding

[Chris-5390]

Originally Posted by LSOfreak

you paid £70 for vtr wheels without tyres that needed a refurb? they saw you coming lol

good job on the wheels though. Wouldve personally done them any other colour than black tbh far too common and dull imo

I got 4 almost new tyres with the wheels a friend of mine owns a small garage he took them of before painting and considering two of them are pirelli and two continental I'm pritty happy with the price I payed for the alloys

[Chris-5390]

Grill next do you think I should paint the Citroen badge black

[boarer2004]

all black including the blue surround and mesh insert

[Lewis1600]

"The proper way" and you forgot to do the inside.

Have fun sanding/buffing the orange peel btw.

[Chris-5390]

Originally Posted by Lewis1600

"The proper way" and you forgot to do the inside.

Have fun sanding/buffing the orange peel btw.

I'm leaving the in sides and the lips silver