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As the title states, I started my first wheel rebuild a few weeks on a set of Ronal SX's. I'll get to the pictures shortly, but first some background:
I found this set for sale on Bf.c at the end of April but they were in LA, a long way from Eastern PA and the buyer was not willing to ship. I was pretty butthurt at first but I knew I had to have these wheels. I devised a bulletproof plan to ask random strangers in the Los Angeles area via bimmerforums if anybody would be willing to pick them up and ship them to me. A friendly man name Jonathan replied to my thread within a few hours and we were off and running. A few days of extremely hectic third party planning between the seller and the shipper go by and the plan is set. Paypal over the money and the shipper picks the wheels up the next day and has them shipped within a few weeks. With all that out of the way, lets get to the good stuff.
Info:
Wheels are 17x8 and 9 with square offsets of +42. The wheels themselves are by no means common but I have yet to find another set in those specs. They arrived in decent shape, but in desperate need of a refinish.
Plans:
I'll be spray painting the centers myself in a color called lagoon and I'll be adding a fairly heavy silver glitter then a gloss topcoat. The current rears (9j et42) will be moved to the front and run with a 25mm spacer to achieve a final offset of +17. The lips will be getting a high mirror hand polish. As for the current fronts (8j et42) they'll be getting brand new custom made 3.5" lips and moved to the rear giving me 10j et17 out back
Got the new burnout tires off and got to work
First step was to get everything cleaned up, the hardware were first up with a 36 hour vinegar bath.
Surprisingly all I needed to get the barrels back to a basically like-new state was a Brillo pad and some warm soap water
Got the rear lips stripped
I found this set for sale on Bf.c at the end of April but they were in LA, a long way from Eastern PA and the buyer was not willing to ship. I was pretty butthurt at first but I knew I had to have these wheels. I devised a bulletproof plan to ask random strangers in the Los Angeles area via bimmerforums if anybody would be willing to pick them up and ship them to me. A friendly man name Jonathan replied to my thread within a few hours and we were off and running. A few days of extremely hectic third party planning between the seller and the shipper go by and the plan is set. Paypal over the money and the shipper picks the wheels up the next day and has them shipped within a few weeks. With all that out of the way, lets get to the good stuff.
Info:
Wheels are 17x8 and 9 with square offsets of +42. The wheels themselves are by no means common but I have yet to find another set in those specs. They arrived in decent shape, but in desperate need of a refinish.
Plans:
I'll be spray painting the centers myself in a color called lagoon and I'll be adding a fairly heavy silver glitter then a gloss topcoat. The current rears (9j et42) will be moved to the front and run with a 25mm spacer to achieve a final offset of +17. The lips will be getting a high mirror hand polish. As for the current fronts (8j et42) they'll be getting brand new custom made 3.5" lips and moved to the rear giving me 10j et17 out back
Got the new burnout tires off and got to work
First step was to get everything cleaned up, the hardware were first up with a 36 hour vinegar bath.
Surprisingly all I needed to get the barrels back to a basically like-new state was a Brillo pad and some warm soap water
Got the rear lips stripped
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