Thinking of fitting these wheels....

[scoobysn7x]

If it was me I save a lot of time and effort and expense and just get the medusa's refrurbed in a colour of your choice, I've got some zurak wheels and I got them powder coated last year £160 & they look pretty stunning..

[Ninja59]

Originally Posted by ian7675

I need to get mine done this year so if you choose a place in Bristol will you keep this thread updated? Also how long do they take to refurb?

Depends who you speak to and what they are doing for a powder or paint, powder wise to refurb you need them sandblasted or chemically stripped although personally I prefer the latter method as it reduces chance of certain foreign particles from still being there and damaging the finish later on.

Then you need to prime it and recoat it, bake that on, colour of choice and bake done.

Mine took two- three days (they were nearly done by the second but could not pick it up and this gave them extra time) to get re done - more time less haste to get a quality finish, most of it is in doing prep work.

[ian7675]

Well I want them stripped and painted. I work in Bristol so was thinking of dropping the car off and hopefully picking it up the next day.

[Ninja59]

Painted or Powdered?

I would take more time to do all four wheels personally, go for quality not speed of the job.

[ian7675]

Sorry I know nothing of this stuff, are they powdered or painted from the factory as that is what I would want.

I seem to have a habit of hijacking threads, sorry.

[Ninja59]

Painted is what the factory do because it is cheap(er), and enables more fancy finishes with greater colours - oh and makes them look more green because look we use waterbased paints...in my experience there are very few professional refurbers for full 'furbs that do painting it just to messy and much more to go wrong with drying times etc.

Powdered lasts longer, is much tougher, allegedly has less colours to choose from (although I found to many anyway), but will last a greater amount of time and is what many professional alloy refurbers do. From memory it is what many manufacturers used to do...

[Zeb246]

Found a pic of Gunmetal Grey Medusa wheels. This is the colour I will be going for, I think they will look very nice with my Black S40.

[SonyVaio]

Yes they are a nice anthracite colour.

[scoobysn7x]

Originally Posted by Zeb246

Found a pic of Gunmetal Grey Medusa wheels. This is the colour I will be going for, I think they will look very nice with my Black S40.

Very similar colour to mine I think the guy that powder coated them called it titanium, they will look stunning on a black S40, but then I'm biased ;-)

[ian7675]

I was thinking of going with that colour on my black V50. I am also planning on getting the badge less black grill but I'm worried it will all be a bit too black.