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Steve
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15th Apr 06 at 19:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
What a bastard though! I threaded the bastard locking wheel nut as some numpty did it up too tight, getting it off did this to my torque wrench



And this to my finger



Had to resort to this to get the bastard off



Finally all painted up
Robin
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15th Apr 06 at 19:10   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
jesus, all that effort for that

you've got more patience than i have, i'd have given up long before you did

look neater...
Steve
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15th Apr 06 at 19:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
wanted to get it off so i dont have trouble when i need to get some tyres tho
Jake
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15th Apr 06 at 19:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
you went through all that to get the wheel off and you painted them the wrong colour.
Marc
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15th Apr 06 at 19:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Did you remove them first, or just paint around them?
Steve
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painted around them
Steve
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15th Apr 06 at 19:13   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by jake
you went through all that to get the wheel off and you painted them the wrong colour.


whats wrong with gold? just makes um look new, dont want any crappy chavvy red, gold or silver i wasnt fussed and had gold going so...
Jake
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15th Apr 06 at 19:14   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
fair enough.
Steve
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15th Apr 06 at 19:14   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
especially didnt want red as didnt want to appear as if i had fake brembos
Robin
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agreed, gold looks like they are freshly galvanised (almost)
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15th Apr 06 at 19:20   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
my damaged finger was caused by me hammering it accidentally ouch!
RS6
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well it was deffo worth it lol
alistairolsen
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15th Apr 06 at 19:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
never mind new tyres, always handy to know theyre going to come off if you ever have to change a flat!

WHAT THE FUCK were you doing using a torque wrench to undo something that tight? They invented breaker bars for that!

Locking wheelnuts were invented by the devil!

Shame you just painted rounbd them, but I can see if you need the car daily then removing them is an arse! The gold looks good, like new calipers, but for that very reason its too subtle for me. all mine are gloss black and really shiney, although I was almost tempted on white for some odd reason!
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Local tyrefitters did same to me, its when they whack the bolts in with the airgun without putting them in a few turns by hand first.
Steve
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15th Apr 06 at 19:51   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
well halfords is shut, and thats the biggest wrench i had to attach to the socket i banged on, i didnt expect it to break like that

had to rig up some steel tube on the end of the small wrench you can see in the end

I ended up jumping up and down on it to undo it
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16th Apr 06 at 08:52   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
time to do the other side, only did half the car yesterday
mwg
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16th Apr 06 at 09:36   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Looks good. Think I'm gonna do my calipers and drums gold as like said above it makes them look like they have been freshly galvanised
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16th Apr 06 at 09:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
When i read "painted my calipers" i was expecting something tacky but they dont look bad at all.

One of my car's had red painted calipers (done by previous owner), but they're binding so i bought another set from a scrappy... and they're blue!!!
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16th Apr 06 at 09:46   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i dont do tacky things
Ry_B
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Certainly looks better than before, but if it was me I'd paint them red, goes well with the black

[Edited on 16-04-2006 by Rcb]
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16th Apr 06 at 10:12   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
but then id be tring to pretend iv got brembos and people would point and laugh

[Edited on 16-04-2006 by Steve]
Ry_B
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
but then id be tring to pretend iv got brembos and people would point and laugh

[Edited on 16-04-2006 by Steve]


Not if it didn't say Brembo on them
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yawn.
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