Cleaning up my new wheels, advice please

[RhysQ]

What tyre sizes are you going with?? streeeeeeetch?? just do eeeet, it looks wicked

im going with my current 205/40 R17's so there will be a liiiiittle bit of stretch.

I gave one of the barrels a clean with steel wool last night to get rid of the surface rust....... worked a treat! am going to do the other 3 tonight. then they are off to get the centre bores done in the morning. I will be able to give them a polish tomorrow night before they get put on saturday morning.

[RhysQ]

Ok heres a pic of the barrels before and after the steel wool attacked them... really stoked with how they turned out. I'm not going to worry about the section that is still black in the corners in the 'after' photo. When they are on, you won't see that. I actually went over them again after this photo was taken, so they look even better again. I also took them down the car wash and gave them a good spray off after these photos. Here are the pics anyway...

BEFORE


AFTER

[Mrk_Mickey]

Not bad mate, not bad at all. I even reckon your soap will do one step better than what you've already done!

[RhysQ]

OK well the wheels are all done now (good enough for my standards anyway). I gave them a good couple of hours polish with the P21S Polishing Soap and I'm really happy with the outcome, thanks for the advice Dan, that stuff is amazing! I'll quite happily say they look 1000 times better from when I first got them.

Photo's anyone?

THIS IS ONE OF THEM WHEN I FIRST GOT THEM


HOW THEY LOOK NOW

[KI11Z]

Wow! i likey! you might want to have those lips 2pac cleared otherwise you'll be 2hr polishing every weekend

[jasn78]

Rhys, omg they look good want to sell em? lol

[Treza360]

Those wheels look awesome. Next questions though, is do they look awesome on the Polo? Look forward to seeing them next week Rhys.
Cheers,
Trent

[RhysQ]

dramas dramas dramas....had a sh*t morning! I went to get them put on this morning and ended up being a huge failure

My list of issues :

- Front wheels didn't clear the brakes, need 5mm spacers (will have to speak to Tim)
- Wheel studs didn't fit through the stud holes, need them bored out
- Tops of wheel studs are too long so i will not be able to fit the centre caps back on, will need ones with shorter tops

Looks like I'll be getting spacers and the stud holes bored out during the week just to get them on in time for the cruise. I will worry about the studs at a later date, so next weekend they may be centre cap-less and won't look as good. Anyone know where I can get a good range of wheel studs from? I need ones that actually screw into the hub through the wheel, not just the nuts.

[jasn78]

oh well mate we all where pretty sure bout the spacers wherent we? as for the others at least it doesnt sound to drastic like wrong pcd etc

[Jarred]

wheels look mint.

pitty bout the fitment issues though

[RhysQ]

oh well mate we all where pretty sure bout the spacers wherent we? as for the others at least it doesnt sound to drastic like wrong pcd etc

haha yeah, I made sure of that! The front wheels only juuust scrape the brakes, which is why I only need 5mm ones (I could probably get away with 3mm spacers but i'd rather be sure, and get a little more clearance from the strut tower. I took a little red paint off testing it so i'll have to get a can of high temp red as well for when i fit them. I have some red paint flaking off one of my rear calipers so I need to do it anyway.... so not really concerned there. I was surprised with the 8" wide wheels as they are a higher offset and didn't hit the brakes.... they fit on the back perfectly. On the front they just whacked straight into the strut tower lol.

[KI11Z]

Just get the heads of the bolts shaved down, 2min $2 job, thats all i had done a while back . . . . 5mm spacers are a given, a lot of jap wheels have poor brake clearance, stupid small jap brakes and holes you could do yourself, otherwise its another pissy 2min $2 job for a rim repair shop

[RhysQ]

Just get the heads of the bolts shaved down, 2min $2 job, thats all i had done a while back . . . . 5mm spacers are a given, a lot of jap wheels have poor brake clearance, stupid small jap brakes and holes you could do yourself, otherwise its another pissy 2min $2 job for a rim repair shop

Shaving the bolt heads down is a good idea, except the pattern is a circle around the outside and you need a hexagon key to undo them (like a massive allen key lol). I can't remember how deep they are, will sus that out tomorrow.

As for the holes needing to get drilled out, I wouldn't have thought that would be a huge cost. I'll just call Dr Wheels on Monday and have a chat to the bloke, he charges pretty awesome prices there! Put it this way, he charged me $40 to machine the centre bores out when Depulu Wheels just nearby quoted me $100 minimum. The funny thing is, Depulu send their work to Dr Wheels...haha!

Cheers for the advice Alex!

[Mrk_Mickey]

Far out mate your wheels look TUFF....wanna help me find some in 16x8 with 5x100 for my car?

[RhysQ]

Far out mate your wheels look TUFF....wanna help me find some in 16x8 with 5x100 for my car?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Alloy-Wheels-3-Pc-16-5x100-Rays-Eng-Volk-Racing-JDM_W0QQitemZ120392229455QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Car_Parts_Accessories?hash=item120392229455&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318