I was so bored, had some supplies that are never going to be used again, and I'm too cheap to buy hub caps.
I sanded down the paint on the wheels to bare metal, used sand paper from 40-1500 to get it to a nice smooth finish. Taped up the parts that were too hard to get all the paint off, pianted it black. Clear glossed the entire wheel, and tire(it lasts about 2 weeks before it needs a new coat)
I've only finished the front right tire, it totaled about 9 hours to sand and paint it, including the time spent to take the tire off, two of the lugs needed some extra WD-40 to get off.
I still have to smooth out that grease cap thingy and paint that, and sand, and clear coat the axle thinger ma bob.
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A good set of wheels at the salvage yard can be scored for cheap.
deffinately gotta get some chrome lug nuts then youll be stylin :ies:
He needs a set of baby moon hubcaps.
:stupid:
If my mom's bug was in better shape, I was gonna have some pink pin striping done to it and throw a set of those on, but, its got some dents and dings and could use paint, so it'll have to wait.
Yep,gotta get some chrome lug nuts and new dust caps.How about some metal valve stems?
I did the same thing back in '98.
I used the ol' chrome lugnuts too.