Back from a heavy week in Zante now and thought right I need to get the wheels on. Just before going though I did manage to clean the exhaust and paint all 4 wheel hubs.
First job was the wheel hubs. This took me a good 5 hours as I had to give each hub 2 coats of paint allowing 30 minutes in between coats. When you only have 1 decent jack (not including the rubbish scissor jack that comes with the car) and no axle stands it proved a time consuming job. Anyway I don't have any before pics but I'm sure you can all picture the surface rust that builds up on them almost instantly.
Here is a shot after I had finished painting but still has all the masking tape on.
Then I decided to clean up the exhaust and leave the wheels until I got back off holiday. Here are the before pics, and as you can see the pipes were looking a little sorry for themselves. I used Autosol metal polish which was great stuff.
During cleaning
Finally after lots of elbow grease and some assistance from a trusty dremmel here are the results
Now I landed home at 15:30 went straight home dumped my suitcase and got straight to work on putting my freshly refurbished wheels on. These were done by a company called aerocoat and I am extremely pleased with the result. Hope you like
Ste