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Old 07-11-09, 05:27 PM
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Default First photoshoot!! Fresh powdercoated wheels

First I gave her a bath, then clay bar, wax, polish, wax, polish, wax, polish...4 hours later, here are the results!! i love throwing the microfiber cloth on the hood and watch it glide off like its not even touching it =) Let me know what you guys think! Just got oem wheels powdercoated gloss black by marco at performance wheel repair. He did an amazing job. Had some pretty bad curb rash on three of the wheels, he repaired them, then powdercoated, and had everything done in 5 hours. 420 dollars for everything. Amazing. only complain I have is i think he might have overtightened my tpms because I had to get it replaced, was leaking air. (covered under warranty)

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thought this one looked pretty sweet. shot at 500 fps with no flash....













Btw, I am not a photographer by any means, so please excuse my amateurness. Shot this with my vixia video camera haha

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Old 07-11-09, 05:38 PM
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I like the rims got me thinking about mines now. where in cali they located at?
Old 07-11-09, 05:43 PM
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Rims look pretty good. What are you dropped on?
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Originally Posted by Honorebel
I like the rims got me thinking about mines now. where in cali they located at?
Thanks. Here is their site http://performancewheelrepair.com/

They are out in walnut, east of LA about 20 miles, on the 60.
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they're shining
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Originally Posted by Initial G
Rims look pretty good. What are you dropped on?
haha im not dropped, I just taught her to have good posture =)
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I have 13 more pics coming, just uploading right now...
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looks good
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looks great how long did he take to complete the work? did you have a spare set of wheels/tires in the mean time?
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Ok added the rest of the pics. 35 percent tints are coming next saturday, so hopefully that will go better with the black rims....
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Originally Posted by isthrizzy
looks great how long did he take to complete the work? did you have a spare set of wheels/tires in the mean time?
thank you. gf followed me in my jeep out there, dropped it off at 9 am, went to the mall, bought her a frikking purse, got some lunch, came back and picked it up at 2 pm. so five hours total. pretty sweet huh? marco is the ****.
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^^damn that's awesome. I had planned to powder coat mine at one point, and one concern was what to do with now wheels..... that's great service
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Originally Posted by isthrizzy
^^damn that's awesome. I had planned to powder coat mine at one point, and one concern was what to do with now wheels..... that's great service
yeah it was such a good deal. extremely pleased with how everything turned out. Are you in socal? you should hit him up!
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I am in Socal, but instead I went with a black chrome finish b/c they offered a core swap with the wheels. I am not too stoked with the finish on them, so at some point I may powder coat them.

at the very least, I have to fix some curb rash and get the rims on my girl's 328 refinished, so this is looking like an option.
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i got similar results with doing it myself but yours looks good too!


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