Bottle Cap Rims Re furbishing

[sickbro91]

BEFORE:

AFTER:



INNER TIRE: ITS MESSED UP.. WHY?

[CAOSyAMOR]

Top Shelf. That's shiny!

[asubimmer]

werd 14" BLING!!!one!

[Stephen]

lol...

well...

What did you do?

[sickbro91]

i bought the car like that just 2 days ago hahaha. im guessing my wheels are toed in a whole lot and or there was a bunch of fat people riding in it all the time so it sat low and made the wheels toe in... oh yeah and does anyone know how to get that gunk stuff gone? maybe disc brake cleaner? i donno its pretty thick and stupid. i want it gone.

[CAOSyAMOR]

After being here a couple more days you may not even want the bottlecaps.

What are your plans for the car? Your tires look shot, so no better time to upgrade wheels and tires if that is in your future.

[sickbro91]

hahaha yeah well first things first. i gotta lower it with nice coil-overs. and what i wanna do is get 5 spoke white rims that make the wheels flush with the fenders. roll them and it would look sweeet.! im thinkin about tint but it seems like this is one of those cars that would look bad with tint

[sickbro91]

hey CAOSyAMOR how did you tint your rear lights so its not fully tinted it looks like the plastic has a shade of smoke or something. do they sell those?

[CAOSyAMOR]

Sounds like you are on the right track. Suspension is paramount. Tint rarely is pulled of nicely in the E30 IMHO. You may be a little overkill on the white rims, totally depends, but it is a lot of white for one, and secondly to accurately match the Alpine white if you try a DIY will most likely result in an off-color. If it were me, Alpine looks sick in most other rim colors such as black (gloss and matte), gold, bronze, nogaro, and silver.

cheers

[CAOSyAMOR]

hey CAOSyAMOR how did you tint your rear lights so its not fully tinted it looks like the plastic has a shade of smoke or something. do they sell those?

those are made by Startec, and are NLA as new, but come up from time to time. The ones I have now are the later, more pinkish ones but they had an earlier version which were more smoked and even harder to find in good condition. MHW was the last company to make OE quality tails and are also darker. Then there are a few people here who have either smoked or reddened their tails, both which look good, just depends what you are going for.

[sickbro91]

thanks for the info. i really dont know what color i want the car. white is super sick but i was thinkin gun metal or something a little darker. i donno and i would want those tails on the new painted car ya no... haha well yeah its a work in progress