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Colour coded steels....
This is a discussion on Colour coded steels.... within the Fabia I forums, part of the Skoda Model Discussion Area category; .... I can hear everyone going, "Oh ****! What's he doing now?!" Well, simple really. Take two 14" steels. Clean ...
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02-05-2008, 21:14
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|  Colour coded steels.... ....  I can hear everyone going, "Oh ****! What's he doing now?!" Well, simple really. Take two 14" steels. Clean them thoroughly, mask off the tyre & valve with newspaper and tape.  Not much to see at the moment as the wheel has had a basecoat of silver hammerite only, which has dried evenly with no drips.  When the weather improves over the BH weekend, I hope to apply a coat of diamond silver and start the same process again on the other steel.Thinking about pumping them up to 40PSI and running them to Germany and back. Rough calculations tell me the fuel saved might well fuel a lap of the ring - plus there's the novelty value (not AROUND the ring of course, thats just dangerous  ) 100mm less rubber on the ground at the back as the tyres are 165/70 R14, plsu pumping them up might mean even less rolling resistance. (and less resistance to cornering oversteer as well....)Hoping for a dry monday [fingers crossed]
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02-05-2008, 21:31
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... These going on the back i take it??? As they deffo wont fit front
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... Quote:
Plus having them as steering tyres would definitely be asking for an early grave. They are usually on the back of my car when I go down the pod - I just fancied painting them.
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02-05-2008, 23:17
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... Is your fabia not tail happy enough  I agree with the drag racing thought, i have some extra long polo Tdi springs to put in my rear end for 1/4 miles etc and some 14inch steels too, just need tyres now.
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03-05-2008, 00:02
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... but surely the extra weight of carrying 2 more wheels will outweigh any gains from reduced drag?
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03-05-2008, 08:44
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... that wouldn't make any difference at all.
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03-05-2008, 12:21
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... I think the rolling resistance will play as big a part as the weight of the car itself. I would be either sat on 4 alloys with a steel in the car, or now it's 2 steels on the car, and 2 alloys in the back. Offset it earlier this morning anyway - my LPG tank is now out the spare wheel well, so that's the back end lightened by about 25 to 30kg! 
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03-05-2008, 12:31
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... you not running the gas now then?
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... Quote:
Need to speak to Allard after the ring trip to go through remapping and what they recommend. Could well be I end up ripping out the propane kit and just having the fuelling supplied by the uprated nozzles. Certainly cut back on weight. Economy on race nozzles alone seems reasonable too. Looks like my current tank is heading for a rough 50mpg by the time I fill it up.
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03-05-2008, 14:16
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... lol Jason your insane! lol lol but i like it lol
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03-05-2008, 14:28
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... This is the "spray booth" as of now. Good weather for it today - Not too sunny, but a little breezy which isn't helping the spray pattern out the can.... [looks down at silver figertips...] 
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03-05-2008, 14:41
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... My brother recently did something similar as one of his wheels needs to be refurbished, so the steels needed to go back on for a while. However, they were rusty, flaky and generally looking rough ...  He decided to paint them so first he sanded them down ...  After masking them up and putting on his finest chav garms he got the primer out ...   Tucked up inside ready for painting ...  And they were done ...   Why? Him and his mate made some sort of deal ...  I don't know 
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03-05-2008, 14:44
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| Re: Colour coded steels.... My "primer" is hammerite smooth silver "straight to rust" and it's going on nice. The skoda paint is more liquidy, so would not be suitable to apply straight to the steel. It's going on nice on top of the single coat of hammerite though. Proving to be a good match for skoda silver, so I might get another can as it's a lot cheaper than Skoda paint and a lot tougher to use as a basecoat. Reminds me, I think the steel which has had 2 coats of skoda silver is ready for some clearcoat!
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