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Offline MarcIV

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Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« on: 23 February 2014, 11:58 »
Hi,
Fist things first I had a new clutch kit fitted to my golf and obviously I had to take off the front wheels and as I can to put on the centre caps one was missing so I got rid of the other 3 I had and made some money for a set of 4 which I decided to make them my own.
Here's a few pictures to tell the story.  :grin:

First these are in naff condition.


Here's a picture of my beaut.


After taking them apart & sanding all the lacquer off to rough them up a little.


After 30minutes of solid sanding I gave them a quick rinse off and started with the base coat/grey primar
On which I do apologise as I never took photos of this part!  :smiley:

So after 3/4 coats and I got stuck in with the top coats! :nerd:


This is Audi Quartz Grey  :cool:
I wanted to try get same colour as is was before and this is the colour my girlfriend found  :grin:


Now as for the Audi rings I should have bought red primar for best results but I never thought at the time  :whistle:


As for the Aluminium outer trim all I did was respray lacquer straight onto bare metal, at this point I had no idea what was going to happen(as to the looks) but I was fairly happy with the results!  :grin:


Then I sprayed about 3 coats of lacquer on all 3 pieces, put them back together and added another 2 coats of lacquer for good luck and this is what I got!


Thanks for reading  :smiley: :grin: :nerd:
« Last Edit: 23 February 2014, 22:25 by MarcIV »
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Offline Dave_IOW

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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #1 on: 23 February 2014, 14:30 »
Looks good :afro:
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Offline Carl!

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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #2 on: 23 February 2014, 15:32 »
You just need an audi now to go with them. :laugh:

Offline MarcIV

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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #3 on: 23 February 2014, 22:24 »
Haha I'm on TT rs wheels, golf all the way :p although I would like a vr6 corrado!  :laugh: :evil:
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Offline mwad gti

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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #4 on: 20 March 2014, 21:00 »
They look good
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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #5 on: 31 March 2014, 22:22 »
Thanks!
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Re: Making Audi TT centre caps my own!
« Reply #6 on: 29 May 2014, 22:14 »
Just to let you guys know these are still in mint condition, not a bad D.I.Y :p
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