Friday, November 25, 2005

DIY Rubberise wheel arch Insulation!

Morning tired expression! Woke up 8am on a saturday morning for DIY!
Slept at 2... great sleep... super cold aircon!! feels like waking up after winter!

Yes a mask is adviceable, the aerosol stinks!! And even with this mask, you will still absorb some of the fumes, makes u groggy, and intoxicated!!
Wear goggles if you hav...!!






Step 1 : Jack up the car!! DUHH!!








Step 2 : Remember to prepare your supplies!!
1 x Maskin Tape (for the Arch)
1 X Pail with unwanted cloth (for cleaning the Arch)
1 X Face Mask (to scare your neighbours and protect youself)
1 X Jack (Don't ask me whats for!)
4 X Aerosol rubberise spray! ( 1 can 4 coats )
Please wear a Tshirt that you don't want, you will get really really dirty after lying around on the floor.. esp in MSCP!!


Step 3 : Clean the interior of the wheel arch... it's full of sand mud and grit!!








Step 4 : Tape the arch. Make sure the boundary is thick enough so as to prevent you car coat to be damaged!








Step 5: Place Newspapers on the wheel. This will help accidental sprays into the brake calipers.








Step 6 : If ya doing this in your own property, please place some form of protection for your flooring... Mom n Dad gonna kill me!!








Step 7 : Please wait for the coat to dry. Have some nice chill 100 plus.









Step 8 : Final results should show that it's abit viscous on the outside.. and looks mean!








Step 9 : Salute to the little boys in white!!








Some words of advice here!
For vios front wheel, there are places that they have never spray a layer for tar coating!
Hence it will be good if you stretch your tiny hands and move into the area of weakness!
You might realise that by spraying that area will spill alittle into the engine bay!! But don't worry, it's fine! or at least i think it is!~=]
Also, when the can is fresh and heavy... try to spray to hard to reach sections, when the pressure in the aerosol can is so much higher than later.. it will give u a nicer coating as well as less blobs!
Ill be trying out the effect of the undercoat later! To all my vios buddies. thanks for teaching!
Thank you uzume002 for buying the undercoat!

1 Comments:

At 5:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

There is another product from 3M with item code 08883. That coating is slightly thicker than the current little white one u use.. :)

I've done my too.. on my altis.
:) FUN!!!

 

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