Pimp your ride thread

[Cnasty]

Weasel's Focus grille experiment

Before:



After:

[Weasel]

Hopefully once the wife sees how the grille looks she'll greenlight me to do her wheels

[Cnasty]

Hopefully once the wife sees how the grille looks she'll greenlight me to do her wheels

In looking deeper at the pics, it matches the mirrors perfectly.

nice work

[shel311]

Makes me wish I just had a decent set of rims

How much does this cost?

[Cnasty]

Makes me wish I just had a decent set of rims

How much does this cost?

Its about $6 a can at Lowes, some painters tape for about $4, some newspaper .75.

Worth a shot as it peels right off very easily but yea with hub caps it may be weird with the back part showing through.

[Cnasty]

Before with the "chrome" wheelskins:


Before without the wheelskins:



Teaser for the after as I probably cant get to it until Sunday

[OracleHCR]

Makes me wish I just had a decent set of rims

How much does this cost?

Damn man. I gave my stock R/T wheels away not too long ago. If I had known I would've let you have them for the cost of shipping them.

[Cnasty]

Makes me wish I just had a decent set of rims

How much does this cost?

Damn man. I gave my stock R/T wheels away not too long ago. If I had known I would've let you have them for the cost of shipping them.

Damn!!

[shel311]

Makes me wish I just had a decent set of rims

How much does this cost?

Damn man. I gave my stock R/T wheels away not too long ago. If I had known I would've let you have them for the cost of shipping them.

That's something that would have been better left unsaid.

Ah well.

[ReignOnU]

Your garage is too clean.

[Cnasty]

Your garage is too clean.

I make it a point in the new house to keep it clean for a car to fit in there. You can see the riding mower pushed to one side in the reflection and the rest is in the shed in the back yard.

[ReignOnU]

I definitely need to get a shed before winter. I've considered it for a few years, but just kept stacking stuff and making it fit. The G8 is a lot longer than my Jeep, so room is too tight now. I've been parking it outside since I got it and I hate doing that. We keep my wife's car in the garage, more so for convenience for her. No way the G8 is sitting outside in Nov/Dec though.

[Whittness10]

Your garage is too clean.

I make it a point in the new house to keep it clean for a car to fit in there. You can see the riding mower pushed to one side in the reflection and the rest is in the shed in the back yard.

When you pimping out the Husqvarna?

[The_Niddler]

Your garage is too clean.

I make it a point in the new house to keep it clean for a car to fit in there. You can see the riding mower pushed to one side in the reflection and the rest is in the shed in the back yard.

When you pimping out the Husqvarna?

A buddy/coworker of mine is an artist on the side and he started painting push lawnmowers with flames and shit and coolers.

Some look pretty cool.





Here is his website where he makes clay goblins:
www.jimaginationstudios.com

[Weasel]

Did the wheels today. I have chrome wheel covers on, so I was able to pop them off and just dip them while off, making it really easy.

Before:



After (sorry about the lighting in the pics making it tough to see):







I did the grille, four wheels, and nameplate on the back with two cans. Total investment: $12.

[Block M]

Okay, are we going to get a Niddler-esqe step by step run down of how to do this cause those look very good!

[Cnasty]

Those look awesome!

I'm more proud that you figured out how to post pics

Just got back from home Depot and got 4 cans of the dip and 4 of the glossifier

How many coats did yoi do and how did you prep?

[Weasel]

Okay, are we going to get a Niddler-esqe step by step run down of how to do this cause those look very good!

Thanks! Check out some of the dipyourcar videos on youtube, its really easy. The toughest part is either covering the brakes or removing the tire, like I said I had wheel covers on so I just popped those off and dipped them.

1. Clean wheel with soap and water. Dry
2. Remove tire, or use something to cover the brakes behind the wheel
3. Spray with plasti-dip. Cans can be found in the spray paint section of hardware stores for around $6. Use several coats, starting light (I only had about 50% coverage on my first pass) and making sure you get at it from different angles. I think I did 5 coats on the wheels
4. Replace tire, remove drape

[Weasel]

Those look awesome!

I'm more proud that you figured out how to post pics

Just got back from home Depot and got 4 cans of the dip and 4 of the glossifier

How many coats did yoi do and how did you prep?

On the front, the calipers were actually too close for me to try and get some sort of drape in behind it so I actually went ahead and took the entire wheel off. In doing so, I found out the covers were really easy to pop off and on, so I just put the tire back on and took off all the covers

[OracleHCR]

Those look good but you really should've taken the tires off and painted those calipers.
j/k nice job doc.