Member Profile - jay.ritchie - 3RB to Golf R

[jay.ritchie]

cut and polished

[cruisn]

Needs red neon's.

[Stu]

cut and polished

F^&kin slick wagon, no doubt, Sexy as!

[jslayz]

Mmmmm Wagon!

[jay.ritchie]

cheers guys,

just bought a DB840 single coil 4ohm replacement sub. First ever audio hardware mod!

[agan]

veryyyyy nice **drools**

[jay.ritchie]

I thought this afternoon would be a good chance to see if i could strip the Work CR Kai's aftermarket matte black paint off, so i attacked it with a multi purpose thinner, and success! The first wheel turned out awesome, with the original Work grey in perfect condition underneath.

The second wheel was going good, till i ran out of thinner and daylight. I managed to finish the front side of the wheel, but not the side of the spokes or the insides.
I'll have to finish that when i do the other two wheels.

Overall the fresh side of the car looks really cool. A completely different feel with the car now, to describe it i'd say "sportier" and no-more "stealth".
The red lug nuts look 100 times better, and the wheels look quality now, something they were lacking with the flat paint on them before.

Heres some quick snaps.

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Front wheel- complete

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Back wheel- half done

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Front wheel- done

[meownerator]

that looks mint against black
love a shadow chrome finish
good to see something different from blackonblackonblackonblackonblack (not that there's anything wrong with that!)

[jakey]

Are you letting the thinners soak for a while? Weird that you ran out on 1 wheel and a half? Looks nice never the less.

[jay.ritchie]

Are you letting the thinners soak for a while? Weird that you ran out on 1 wheel and a half? Looks nice never the less.

The thinners work after being on the wheel for 10 seconds. i basically soak a cloth in it, rub it on, wait a bit then rub.
Yeah i only bought 1 tin of it, 1L ish just to see if it would work. I finished the first wheel and knew i wouldn't have enough to finish the second, but i didn't want to drive around with one grey wheel for the next week haha.

[markii]

wow, so much better. lucky the paint finish was nice underneath especially that awesome colour!
what a knob painted them a shitty paint can black before

[jay.ritchie]

wow, so much better. lucky the paint finish was nice underneath especially that awesome colour!
what a knob painted them a shitty paint can black before

Yeah i got lucky, i thought they were a plain silver underneath!
It was a gt86 driver

All 4 wheels have been restored back to their original glamour.
I'll take some snippets soon.

[cruisn]

MUCH better.

[jay.ritchie]

MUCH better.

If Mark likes what you've done, you know you've done good.

[jay.ritchie]

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kzst1ghwlrsf8nn/9UGXXuhfBy

Heres the latest photos of the "refurbished" Work CR Kai's.
The dropbox photos are way better quality so peak at those.

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