Refurbed Wheels

[jeffreyt]

got fed up with looking for new wheels, normal tyres and spare wheel so have had the old wheels refurbed.

They were very scabby but have cleaned up well and look almost like new.

I have taken off the dinner plate covers and had the screw holes filled in and they now look like a really nice set of chunky wheels.

Not sure how to get pics up on the forum but the guy who did them has put before and after pictures on his website (www.kerbed.co.uk ) if anyone is interested.

Am now in the process of carefully cutting out the centres from the plastic 'dinner plates' and will mount them in the centre of the wheels to cover up the unsightly holes.

I put this up in case anyone else is fed up with their old ( pre facelift wheels) and wonders how they would look refurbed and with the covers off.

[TigerFish]

Pics look good, nice way to update them a bit :)

[Teeonethousand]

Very nice indeed. I did not realise that the this was the no-plate look. As you say, a nice centre cap and they will look the dogs - though they look pretty good as is.

I wonder what the logic was in putting such a large disc on in the design stage

[alphacat]

Look good without the silly dinner plates. What were they thinking of?

[jeffreyt]

nice to know I am not alone in disliking the dinner plates.

My guess is that the US design team wanted to come up with something different and thought this style of wheel would go down well with the

middle aged US buyers that were the focus market for this car.

Times and taste change....

[alphacat]

Yes but I think 'old' not middle aged.. Dinner plates and 'Jewish racing gold' is very popular in the US along with blue rinsed hair.