So me and my buddy got together and worked on painting our calipers and buffing up my ride. I also installed dual turn signals.
We had major issues getting my wheels off...we tried and tried to hand crank the lugs, but no luck. Then we drive to the local wally world to see if we could use their air wrench to get the lugs off. They offered to do it for free and even they couldn't get my wheels off first try with the air wrench! So they tell me to go walk around for a while and say they will call me when the car lugs are loosened. Well 30 minutes later they finally got the lugs loosened. The odd thing is I had new tires put on 4 months ago, so they shouldn't have been rusted on or anything. I guess the tire place just over-tightened the lugs wayyyy too much, so I guess I'm lucky none of the bolts didn't snap. I'd be SOL if I had a flat. After letting the lugs soak (I'm guessing in WD-40) they were able to get them at least. Free of cost too which was nice, but I couldn't believe how much trouble they caused.
Oh and on top of all that the creepy dude that had to do a "figure 8" in the car before they were allowed to say it was safe and ready to go said "dude I was surprised, your car is really quick!."
1. I was like wtf were you driving my car quick for and 2. I couldn't believe he thought my car was quick....he must drive a pinto or something lol.
Anyway...here are the pics...I painted the calipers red and the hubs flat black.
The previous owner painted them blue so I just tried to cover all the blue areas...I realize you wouldn't normally paint the rubber sleeve and stuff, but he did so I just went over it in red lol.
Before
Rusty and chipped
Clean flat black hubs and cherry red calipers
Uhoh! someone stole my dubz and left me on blocks
Almost finished
Complete!
Then my headlights were foggy so I took a buffer to 'em. Thought we would need to sand them too but they cleared right up without it!
^^^mazziod's own dressing?
Clean and clear and under control
Lemme know what you think!
We had major issues getting my wheels off...we tried and tried to hand crank the lugs, but no luck. Then we drive to the local wally world to see if we could use their air wrench to get the lugs off. They offered to do it for free and even they couldn't get my wheels off first try with the air wrench! So they tell me to go walk around for a while and say they will call me when the car lugs are loosened. Well 30 minutes later they finally got the lugs loosened. The odd thing is I had new tires put on 4 months ago, so they shouldn't have been rusted on or anything. I guess the tire place just over-tightened the lugs wayyyy too much, so I guess I'm lucky none of the bolts didn't snap. I'd be SOL if I had a flat. After letting the lugs soak (I'm guessing in WD-40) they were able to get them at least. Free of cost too which was nice, but I couldn't believe how much trouble they caused.
Oh and on top of all that the creepy dude that had to do a "figure 8" in the car before they were allowed to say it was safe and ready to go said "dude I was surprised, your car is really quick!."
1. I was like wtf were you driving my car quick for and 2. I couldn't believe he thought my car was quick....he must drive a pinto or something lol.
Anyway...here are the pics...I painted the calipers red and the hubs flat black.
The previous owner painted them blue so I just tried to cover all the blue areas...I realize you wouldn't normally paint the rubber sleeve and stuff, but he did so I just went over it in red lol.
Before
Rusty and chipped
Clean flat black hubs and cherry red calipers
Uhoh! someone stole my dubz and left me on blocks
Almost finished
Complete!
Then my headlights were foggy so I took a buffer to 'em. Thought we would need to sand them too but they cleared right up without it!
^^^mazziod's own dressing?
Clean and clear and under control
Lemme know what you think!