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Wheel Spacers
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:19 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
Finally, after months and months of hearing people say "Josh, you really could do with getting some spacers for your rear wheels", I finally flipped yesterday and fitted some 20mm Hubcentric spacers to each of my rear wheels.
This is the result:
What do you think?
(oh, and I painted my calipers at the same time as the OE paint had gone Pink!)
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:08 am
by carmadaaron
were those spacers just 4 looks? if they were theyre doin their job
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:12 am
by EddyH
Looking good!
Great job on the calipers, fancy doing my rear calipers next?
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:05 am
by Speedlaw
Looking good. Is that 20mm a side, or both sides combined?
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 9:53 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
Alex: 20mm per side
Aaron: Just for looks, yeah, but they have made the back end feel totally planted!
Eddy: Erm... I'd rather chew my hand off! JK... It's not that hard.
Glad you all like them... I think it's made loads of difference.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:13 pm
by polopowah
aye thats smart as!
red calipers look good, i've seen cars with red drums painted and they look toss!
-Ben-
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:19 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
Ben, they were red from the factory, but they went a bit pink after years of brake dust and wheel acid, so I thought I'd refresh them!
You're right. If you're going to paint drums, paint them black or gray.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:20 pm
by Petrified
They do look dead smart!
I've been thinking of doing this to mine, painting the calipers red that is. And maybe with the spacers as it looks ace, and I have very similar wheels.
Trying not to Hijack... do you think it would suit the car??
http://www.tigerstyle.co.uk/poloforum/v ... .php?t=710
Cheers.
James.
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:48 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
Would look sweet mate!!
Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 10:52 pm
by Petrified
Cheep mods are the best
well actually that's not true (1.8t...) but still.
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 11:02 am
by Speedlaw
Josh_PoloGTi wrote:
You're right. If you're going to paint drums, paint them black or gray.
I've just painted mine black the other week. There's no point in drawing attention to drums IMnotsoHO.
Did you notice a difference in handling at all?
Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 8:47 pm
by Josh_PoloGTi
Yeah, handling is much better now. The back end just feels "planted"
Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:18 pm
by D17NS X
I had to paint my drums the other day, done them silver, they match my alloys and don't look to bad.
Thinking of doin the front ones blue, (the car is blue) wot do you think?? Josh did you take the caliper sp. off??
Dan
Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2004 4:03 pm
by KarlM
Looking good.
Where did you get em from and do you know if they can supply porshe adpaters?
Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2004 1:46 pm
by LAN's GTI
Josh, what paint did you use to paint your calipers, I need to do my front ones as I have a new set on the rear and my front ones have gone a bit pink. Cheers