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Postby Robertsbrock » May 9th, 2008, 12:23 pm

Hey their while on the thought of doing something to the car,, Like alot of people in this country im not made of money so i carnt go and grab a nice set of rims for my ride, and the stock rims on the car arnt looking that bad so iv had the though of powder coating the rims a whole different colour like maybe a gray or a black or soemthing that will suit my car . I have a mate and his old man ownes a powdercoating joint and i can get the whole 5 rims done for 100$ what yas think???
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Alesia » May 9th, 2008, 12:27 pm

wat colour is your car?
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Commando » May 9th, 2008, 12:56 pm

$100 sounds like you can't go wrong (with regards to value).

Although, 1) what car do you have, 2) what rims do you have, 3) what colour is the car? Pics will help
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Alesia » May 9th, 2008, 1:04 pm

definatly need pics before a proper judgement can be made :D
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby oneredED » May 9th, 2008, 1:17 pm

Robertsbrock wrote:Hey their while on the thought of doing something to the car,, Like alot of people in this country im not made of money so i carnt go and grab a nice set of rims for my ride, and the stock rims on the car arnt looking that bad so iv had the though of powder coating the rims a whole different colour like maybe a gray or a black or soemthing that will suit my car . I have a mate and his old man ownes a powdercoating joint and i can get the whole 5 rims done for 100$ what yas think???

Just a quick one robertsbrock, is your car a red Brock EA? There used to be one in Horsham and it's fuckin' mint as, I used to see it every week near a smash repair place along with an ED XR8 on FR18 simmons and a white/grey SVO-style X-series ute of some sort.

Post up some pics of your car and get someone to photoshop it with the different coloured wheels, could look ok, depends on the wheels though. Heck, if it's in Horsham (my car's living in Ararat) I might even get the AJR's done a darker grey in the centre if it's only $100 :?
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby wolf » May 9th, 2008, 1:34 pm

its a silver eb fairmont ghia.

wheels are here
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg13 ... G_0668.jpg

i think any other colour than silver will look shit being the whole care is silver.
and being they are already polished i don't see the point.
but 100 bux is **** all for the powder coating even if it is mates rates.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Alesia » May 9th, 2008, 1:36 pm

yeah i wouldnt powder coat those ones i think it would make them look tacky
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby oneredED » May 9th, 2008, 1:38 pm

If you have to do it, do the centres a medium shade of grey, but leave the outer parts polished. Will look a little like a BBS rim and could look ok.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Commando » May 9th, 2008, 1:50 pm

I'd leave them as is/just polish the fark out of them. Grey/black would look hobo as with your silver EB
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Robertsbrock » May 9th, 2008, 3:57 pm

yeha i was thinking about powdercoating them black on the inside and silver on the outside , or something along those lines , im just thinking of different shit to do . And their is 2 red brock fords crusin around horsham still , id have to say their are at least 30 EA - ED fords around here which are kinda done up , but this place is chocka block full of fords.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby edfamily » May 9th, 2008, 4:25 pm

pics, pics, pics, pics, pics
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Robertsbrock » May 9th, 2008, 4:41 pm

give me till tommorow and ill do some photoshopping , and wolf put a pic of me car up a couple of posts ago
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby oneredED » May 9th, 2008, 5:00 pm

Ok, I've done a photoshop. I'm shit at photoshop, so it's crap but you get the idea.

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Doesn't look much different I guess :|
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby wicksy » May 9th, 2008, 5:09 pm

theres a VE GTS in mackay with powdercoated wheels in black it looks horn
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby braiden » May 9th, 2008, 5:14 pm

With powdercoating, you are restricted a bit more than paint. I used to be a powdercoater so if anyone is interested, I'll explain how it works.

Not sure if it would look good. It might, might not.For 100 bucks I suppose you can't go wrong.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Dezza » May 9th, 2008, 8:28 pm

Commando wrote:I'd leave them as is/just polish the fark out of them. Grey/black would look hobo as with your silver EB
Nothing wrong with grey wheels on silver cars!

But those style, yeah I'm not too sure
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Robertsbrock » May 10th, 2008, 4:04 pm

Just lookin at that photoshop of the bloke did of the rims i really like them , then when the cars droppet on its arse it will look horn.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby EdFairmontGhia » May 10th, 2008, 7:33 pm

reckon your mates dad ca offer that $100 special to the rest of the club if anyone else is interested? :lol:
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby sphell » May 10th, 2008, 9:52 pm

I would keep the 100 and leave it like it is.
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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby Stengord » May 11th, 2008, 3:38 pm

What is horn? Its been mentioned a couple of times!

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Re: Poweder Coated Rims

Postby serial_fool » May 11th, 2008, 8:33 pm

How does polishing them make them chrome?
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