Scottie's Tribute A352 build

[WorldClassAccident]

Some names are chosen - other are given.

I used to mountain bike a lot and World Class Accident was a phrase I heard a few times as I came round or read the reviews

[Scottie22]

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[WorldClassAccident]

I will take it if you don't want it...

Saw it at the NEC last week and it looks lovely

[Mister Towed]

Must look in my other trousers. Sure I've got the necessary million or so quid kicking around in the pockets.

Damn, just checked and they're at the cleaners.

[Scottie22]

I don't want it WCA as I don't have the necessary £650,000.......

Cheaper than you thought eh Towed?

[WorldClassAccident]

Still twice the price of a 'continuation' Knobbly

[Mister Towed]

Originally Posted by Scottie22

I don't want it WCA as I don't have the necessary £650,000.......

Cheaper than you thought eh Towed?

Six hundred and fifty grand. Is that all? Bargain, think I'll order two.

[Scottie22]

Hey Mr Towed, you better get down that cleaners pretty quick then!

[Scottie22]

So its a Lister for then is it Nick? :-)

[Mister Towed]

Originally Posted by Scottie22

Hey Mr Towed, you better get down that cleaners pretty quick then!

Hardly worth the trip for such small change really.

[Scottie22]

Hahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!

[Scottie22]

Way back when I started this build, I needed to cut the wheel nuts in half on order to get them to fit behind the modded spinner/ hubcap arrangement which I had made.
That meant cutting all 16 nuts in half, grinding them back to shape, smoothing and polishing them to look like they were meant to be like that.. So I put the hours in and did just that.

So far so good, however, although they looked just like shiny chrome, the end bits I had cut and reshaped were just basically raw steel.
That means that a few days in damp or rainy conditions would render them well red rusty on the ends, so I thought I would get a few quotes for re-chroming them.

I reckoned it would not cost very much to chrome a few little wheel nuts.
Right?

How wrong can one be?

One quote was £5 per nut, plus £20 carriage + Vat = £120

Pretty costly , or so I thought, considering a set of new chrome nuts was around 30 quid.

So I sought more quotes, and it just snow-balled rapidly downhill…………….

One quote was £6.50 per nut plus all the bollox
One was £10 per nut + etc

The worst one was £14 per nut, plus the 20 quid carriage, plus the dreaded, which Topped out at a massive £292.80!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean 300 quid to chrome a set of wheel nuts??

So chroming was OUT, and I went down another avenue, stainless steel nuts at £80 a set.

But then I realised I would have to do the hours of cutting, shaping and polishing all over Again, and I just will not do that.

So there we are, I could have paid 300 quid to have them chromed and after having the wheels on and off a few times over a year or two, the buggers would still go a bit rusty in the end, wouldn’t they?

So my compromise is to give the nuts I have modded several coats of lacquer, eventually put them on the car and having done that, give them a dusting of lacquer again in situ, which should hold any serious rust at bay, then just touch them up once in a while.

Or, does anyone out there think that the chroming prices are reasonable?

I’m not having them chromed regardless of what answers come back (if any)
But some feedback would be appreciated.

[landmannnn]

Yeah, chroming is mad, mostly because of the regs around the chemicals.

I have one of those electroplating kits, nice way of finishing off..

http://www.frost.co.uk/automotive-pa...-kits.html?p=1

[Scottie22]

I went to the website, but which one did you buy,and what kind of results did you get Landmannnn?

[landmannnn]

I used the yellow passivate kit on previous projects, results really good. Nickel plating might be an option for you, not as glossy as chrome but if you do some you tubing it polishes up quite nicely.
Thinking about it, it might be worth seeing if you could get a local company to nickel plate your nuts..

[EL PRIMER]

Originally Posted by landmannnn

Thinking about it, it might be worth seeing if you could get a local company to nickel plate your nuts..

chortle.

[Scottie22]

Here we go again........... :-)

[Jaguartvr]

Paint them silver and move onto finishing the car, sometimes the details can overtake you.
You can always go back to fine details later.
80 pages and still not in paint!

[Scottie22]

You've got it in one JTVR!

[landmannnn]

Not sure I agree, if you are tempted to do a 50% job, chances are that it will stay that way.