The wheels look good. Maybe they wont stay that way long but for now they look good. Mr. Bright has some good points but he cose to express them like a 8th grader. Instead of constructive critisism he chose to go right for the throat. Mr. Bright what would have been wrong with somrthing like this " hey Kai I dont know if you know this but that paint will probably start to peel pretty soon. Have you considered powder coating?". That way you get your point ccross and you make a friend or at least not make a enemy.
'04 - Painted wheels!
- Thread starter Kai
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Greg D2 said:
And how the hell would you fit into this???
All you are doing is criticizing (more like reaming him) on painting his rims. Oh, and also, alot of people here do there own shit, like build homemade bumpers, racks, snorkels, etc. Most of us here use our trucks for what they were intended for, 4WHEELING, not to have a pretty Disco.
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Greg D2 said:
and you right there prove your total lack of ingenuity. so you'd rather have a bolt on mall crawler?
so since I took the small amount of time to learn to weld well, and fabricate, I'm a cheap bastard? am I reading that right? the $4k in fab tools I spent to be able fabricate my junk factors absolutely none into my cheap assedness right?
but who cares, they're friggin wheels. i think you all need to get off the web and start wheeling your junk instead of spending your time jumping on every little thing
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montoya said:
Aren't Argo1 and JSQ also DW members? I feel they do, and I agree with both
Kai - the wheels look cool. You will regret paiting them a few years from now.
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zeeto said:but who cares, they're friggin wheels. i think you all need to get off the web and start wheeling your junk instead of spending your time jumping on every little thing
but what are we supposed to do at work?
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montoya said:but what are we supposed to do at work?
i don't know i ask myself the same thing as work everyday....
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Greg,
I think youre an idiot, and a royal asshole in your own light. This is clearly exemplified by your use of the word "classy".
I used to have this fat 50 year old Telly Savales-esque neighbor who constantly referred to his Riviera as "Classy". It was not, he was not, and truly, neither are you.
Drive on Kai...
I think youre an idiot, and a royal asshole in your own light. This is clearly exemplified by your use of the word "classy".
I used to have this fat 50 year old Telly Savales-esque neighbor who constantly referred to his Riviera as "Classy". It was not, he was not, and truly, neither are you.
Drive on Kai...
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JLS said:Most of us here use our trucks for what they were intended for, 4WHEELING, not to have a pretty Disco.
You're making my point for me. That's exactly it, you can use your truck for what it is intended to do and still have it look pretty. It doesn't have to look like a turd to go off road. And I'm not busting people's balls if they want to build things, as long as it is done well. Most home-made stuff is not done well, at least a lot of the stuff I see here isn't. I guess I don't see why people are willing to take their Rover and turn it into a turd. But, from the posts that I'm reading I am the minority so I'll chill out and move on to different threads.
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I think they look good- I always like the Kalahari/Trek wheels because of the black paint.
I will say also that the choice of paint and prep probably wasn't the best- using a good primer and an epoxy based paint would have worked better for durability. I may even have mine powdercoated black after they start looking like hell from brake dust pitting/scratches etc.
A good powdercoat is tremendously durable- I had a chassis powdercoated once and you coul hammer on it without hurting it much. The vinyl coatings on the cheap oem LR stuff isn't in the same league as a good powdercoat finish done by someone who knows what they are doing.
I will say also that the choice of paint and prep probably wasn't the best- using a good primer and an epoxy based paint would have worked better for durability. I may even have mine powdercoated black after they start looking like hell from brake dust pitting/scratches etc.
A good powdercoat is tremendously durable- I had a chassis powdercoated once and you coul hammer on it without hurting it much. The vinyl coatings on the cheap oem LR stuff isn't in the same league as a good powdercoat finish done by someone who knows what they are doing.
montoya said:
Believe it or not, I read both threads!
The first thread was started by a guy who make a useless mod that made his brake calipers look like very expensive racing aftermarket part - which is what Argo1 pointed out for him. A very true poseur. And that was him, not Argo1, who wouldn't stop bitchin'. Very funny - a NRA - Sierra Club liaison member!
With much similarity between two threads (on Rennlist and DW), Kai is far apart from the poseur who started the RL thread. I remember myself liking how my jeep and Rangie looked with black wheels - 5/3 years later I don't like it anymore. If the wheels get used off road, they will be beat up no matter what - so Kai, you could be better off by getting a spare set of steelies (if the truck is your DD), for which the color doesn't really matter.
Personally, I like the black rims. I've had black rims on my Range Rovers since '97. All of my trucks have had black rims since then. The only rims I painted were the ones on the CC, and in this pic they still look nice. After one winter they were toast. I decided to get them powdercoated after seeing how well my other rims have held up. Even the green ones on my Series One that are badly scratched are holding up very well (and I haven't touched them up...yet).
Niiiiiiiice. I had a soccer-mom that had a '93 I kept eyeing when I would drop my kids off to school. We moved before I could buy it. I actually like those '95 5-spokers...just not SCREAMING WHITE!!!!
Michael - Have to say it - you have a kick ass rig - I'm suffering from D127/130 envy They look so much cleaner without the external cage of the 90/110
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They look so much cleaner without the external cage of the 90/110Jeff
Thanks for the kind words, but my point was showing how the black rims look on a variety of trucks. Here's another. Apparently LRNA liked the black rims enough to put them on their uber-rare 501/500 D110.
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doooooood, Mike- why didnt ya say so? i have a set of rashed 5-spokes i'll sell ya real CHEAP, then you can ummm spray paint them black!
You know, I didn't think about the brake dust thing, but that's a real check in the plus column for the black wheels. It isn't like black wheels are a new thing on a Land Rover! The painting method certainly could have been better & should certainly not be followed as a how-to on painting wheels, but man this thread got a little nasty!
Well,
I like the idea of coloring one's rims. It would be preferable to use powdercoat obviously, but the paint won't hurt anything. If it falls off, he can just powdercoat it later. Big friggin deal.
I was just going to watch this show, but Greg nailed me on my homemade snorkle, and I've got to represent, even though he apparently ran off. The last snorkle I built worked, and everyone thought it was clean and unobtrusive. Nothing leaked and it withstood quite a thrashing. The paint never chipped and I used spray paint.
I guess I was supposed to pay someone 350.00 to make one for me that, in my opinion, was not as good, so I could be cool. I suppose as well that I need to go give someone ten grand to build be a custom interior rather than do it my self because then I'd be cool too.
Hmm, where I come from, those with the stones to do for themselves are given more respect than those who throw a wallet at their problems. Build a bumper, and it may meet criticism, but only from those who can present their custom bumper which is better. You can't buy credibility off of a store shelf... Sorry Greg.
Cheers,
Kennith
Heres a preview of my new sig line:
It's hard for me to avoid being confrontational of late due to my recently lowered tolerance of intellectual failure.
I like the idea of coloring one's rims. It would be preferable to use powdercoat obviously, but the paint won't hurt anything. If it falls off, he can just powdercoat it later. Big friggin deal.
I was just going to watch this show, but Greg nailed me on my homemade snorkle, and I've got to represent, even though he apparently ran off. The last snorkle I built worked, and everyone thought it was clean and unobtrusive. Nothing leaked and it withstood quite a thrashing. The paint never chipped and I used spray paint.
I guess I was supposed to pay someone 350.00 to make one for me that, in my opinion, was not as good, so I could be cool. I suppose as well that I need to go give someone ten grand to build be a custom interior rather than do it my self because then I'd be cool too.
Hmm, where I come from, those with the stones to do for themselves are given more respect than those who throw a wallet at their problems. Build a bumper, and it may meet criticism, but only from those who can present their custom bumper which is better. You can't buy credibility off of a store shelf... Sorry Greg.
Cheers,
Kennith
Heres a preview of my new sig line:
It's hard for me to avoid being confrontational of late due to my recently lowered tolerance of intellectual failure.