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Painted calipers and stockiessss

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Brought another FTO from a member this week, pretty much stock except for the loud asss exhuast.

Decided to paint my calipers and my stocks matt black, heres the result (:
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Not bad! How did you do the rims?
also you need some tyre shine :p
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LOL I couldnt afforrd masking tape so i painted over the tyres haha, it'll peeel off in the couple of days (:

Just the normal sand-primer-matte LOL
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Couldn't afford masking tape? 8O

I do like the black wheels though. Looks much better than I would have thought
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Solid effort! Did you use the proper caliper paint?

Looks really good apart from the matte tyres you now have ;)
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Casually bought a second FTO and could buy masking tape? Whut? :lol:
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LOL oh wells, ill let it pill off. Painted my white ones and i didnt use masking tape, that wasent pretty LOL

Yeah, I used the VHT capliper paint, its quite good (:
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Daniel2019 wrote:Casually bought a second FTO and could buy masking tape? Whut? :lol:

LOLOL I had no idea what i was thinking
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You know what they key is to painting rims?

Just cut a big circle (16", 17" or 18" depending on your rim size) out of a beer carton. Hold that up as your template as you spray - no over spray on tyres :D

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Why didnt I think of that :scratch:

Shall remmeber to try it when I paint my next set (:
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cos you dont drink enough.... :D
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Dont drink beers LOL

I stick to $4 soju (:
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Xeno wrote:Dont drink beers LOL

I stick to $4 soju (:
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