what did you do to your 944 today
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simdel1
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Ah-ha! I've finally sorted one of the wheels. [8D] Before (the bright sun light doing a very good job of masking the horribly dull and spotty lip):
After stripping and filler-primering:
Finished product after white primer, Ford solar gold and heaps of clear and re-finished lip:
Only 3 to go... Can anyone recommend a decent localish place who can bead blast the centres for me? I don't relish having to scrape and sand each of the next 3 wheels!
Looking very good, Simon - I'll have to get you to do mine[
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Only a bit late for Rutland, Tony , but I think you'll get the same effects from the weather!
simdel1
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Thanks Andy! About half way through the stripping process, my hands covered in blisters, I did start to have second thoughts. I'm very pleased with the results though.
Much cheaper too [
] Besides, the only thing I could ever replace these wheels with is a nice set of Fuchs.
Haha, you might have to give me a bit of time to recover from doing these ones!ORIGINAL: A9XXC Looking very good, Simon - I'll have to get you to do mine [
Diver944
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About time too - well done [
] I spent the day in the workshop spraying one of my front wheels because a very high kerb took a chunk out of two of the spokes yesterday [] I also found a fairly deep scratch in the threshold step of one of the doors. It already had the faintest trace of brown appearing at the bottom (probably all this rain we've had recently sitting on the theshold) so I rubbed that down and sprayed it too.
944 man
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Bead blasting will leave a hammered/annealed finish, which ruins the wheels. You arent going to like me saying this (and I will admit that I was massively wound up by the know-it-all know-nothing previous owner of your car), but Im not sure that Fondmetal wheels are really worth the trouble - they simply arent very good. I had a set of 7.5" x 16" and 9" x 16" wheels similar to yours on my series one hillclimber in 1993. They were heavy and weak. I managed to damage one of the fronts running over a small kerb and bought the very last wheel of their type in the country. By chance the only wheel that the original importer had was a 7.5" x 16" Porsche fitment! They had stopped dealing with FM wheels and explained in no uncertain terms that they had had massive problems with cracking and going out of round. I sold the set shortly afterwards (for under £200 with good tyres and centres, and this was when they looked new) and bought a set of Fuchs, which were SO much better in every way. Move forward twenty years and there seems to be a Fondmetal myth developing...ORIGINAL: simdel1 Ah-ha! I've finally sorted one of the wheels. [8D] Before (the bright sun light doing a very good job of masking the horribly dull and spotty lip):After stripping and filler-primering:Finished product after white primer, Ford solar gold and heaps of clear and re-finished lip:Only 3 to go... Can anyone recommend a decent localish place who can bead blast the centres for me? I don't relish having to scrape and sand each of the next 3 wheels!
Took her for a blast and then visited Byfleet OPC to pick up some bits for an oil change, the first one I've personally done on her, wow the filter was on there solid and so was the sump plug but eventually she relented and covered my mates drive in oil - wasn't quite expecting it to evacuate the sump that quickly (I think the can caught about 80% of it though). Now just to try and pick up an original filter box and attachments to replace the cone filter a previous owner put on. Edit> I should note the mileage was 1 944 30 (OK it amused me)
(OK it amused me)
Frenchy
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Drove the 220, then stripped passenger door panel off and replaced the infamous white plastic connector from the solenoid to lock which i happened to have in my spares boxes, sprayed a good dose of cavity wax and put it back together i have now lost some more rattles , took it to my local small tyre place and had them fill the tyres with nitrogen £4 [] I have tucked her up in the garage, walked past the Turbo S a dozen times in the garage, i need to sort the junk out of the boot area and re-position the front number plate. Went to the tip put 2 new hanging basket brackets up and cut the grass front and back of the house now chilling with a Italian Primitivo []
] I have tucked her up in the garage, walked past the Turbo S a dozen times in the garage, i need to sort the junk out of the boot area and re-position the front number plate. Went to the tip put 2 new hanging basket brackets up and cut the grass front and back of the house now chilling with a Italian Primitivo []
simdel1
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Thanks for the advice on the bead blasting. Looks like it'll be more blisters for me then! To be honest I'd love a nice set of Fuchs (like what were on the car before the previous owner got it...grr) but I simply can't afford to replace the Fondmetals right now. Regardless of whether they're worth it, it's worth the effort to me to keep improving my car. I can't have it rolling on scruffy wheels even if those wheels are a bit heavier than I'd like. Whilst I appreciate that the previous owner annoyed you (and others), she doesn't own the car any more, I do.
944 man
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She sold the 15" Fuchs on here, before trying to convince everyone that what shed replaced them with was better... I think that what carried it over, for me, was that she lied to you about the cars condition. Anyway, I will try and put the annoying b*tch behind me. [] They do look nice with gold centres. Have you considered using a chemical cleaner?
] They do look nice with gold centres. Have you considered using a chemical cleaner?
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