Right not updated this in ages so here goes
Grill swapped for a standard one and stripped into pieces and smoothed and repainted properly
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Exhaust surround smoothed and painted Gloss black
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Then i was on the look out for some wheels nearly bought a set of pescaras from a gti edition 30 but then i saw a set of BBS Rc's in 5x112 fitment in a bit rough condition
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I bought some brand new centre caps for them as 1 was missing and 2 of the 3 were not fit to refurb lol
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I then tried them on my car to find i had major rubbing as they are et 32 and 8.5j i thought 225 tyres would have been enough stretch to give me clearance obviously not.
So i got 5mm machined off the front wheels as this was the main area that rubbed and i bought some 215 40 18 toyo proxes t1 sport.
Then it was off to mike the polisher in glasgow, I originally wanted them polished but then decided to go for a chrome powdercoat to replicate the original ball burnished finish.
Here is the result
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In the photos they look more like silver but in real life there is more depth
and finally the pictures of the wheels on the car
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Future plans are full respray to get paint perfect and to smooth roof aerial , full retrim in half leather half alcantara with red stitching on the side bolsters, US spec rear bumper for the shortened plate recess and maybe coilovers