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[dan@biali]

PPF is self healing though so you won’t see anything once it’s installed. I have all 3 of my vehicles wrapped in ppf (my Hilux is fully covered whereas the other 2 are just bonnets, wings and front bumpers) and you can’t see it plus they’ve had ceramic coatings over the top.

[Lister79]

That’s interesting to know. I never knew that, always thought it was just the same as wrap film.
May have to look into it when I get my bumper redone.


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[J_Con]

Heard some horror stories of people stretching it too much to fit etc but there's a place up here who's got a great reputation. He's spotless_detailing_perth on Instagram does alot of high-end cars if you are up this end again

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[dan@biali]

Its well worth it. I had a senior moment reversing my Hilux through the gate into the garden and inadvertantly used the corner of the front bumper to push a really heavy cast iron firepit. Jumped out to inspect the damage and thought I'd scratched it, turns out I'd just torn a little piece of the ppf and the paint underneath was perfectly fine. Plus there's evidence of stone chip damage on the plastic splitter of the other car and not a single mark on the ppf. Its much thinner than it used to be so the edges are less visible and it doesn't go yellow anymore. The guy I use is a bit too far away for you but he does a lot of very high end stuff





Can see the scratches here



but then once they warm it up it heals

[Lister79]

Looks great that Dan.


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[RKDesigns]

PPF is different to wrap film.


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[Lister79]

Been plodding away recently on designing myself some new wheels. I struggled to find any actual barrel dimensions or 3D files for the blanks so had to base on measurements I took from my rims. Once I had the basic model I spoke to Rimscarnated to enquire about manufacturing. They wouldn’t supply me with a model for the barrel blank, so I had to hand the final designing over to them. This then led to them making a few changes, mainly the addition of a spoke and mounting ring offset. To be fair they have been great to deal with, as I know I’m a bit of a nightmare customer with specifics, I can imagine their thoughts “oh no, not this t@@t again”
The deign is inspired by the Rad48 VR design, which isn’t to a lot of peoples taste (looks like the sun off the Teletubbies), but I like them. I took the spokes leading out to the rim lip, as I think it makes the wheels look small when they don’t. Just need to wait 12-16 week now something to look forward to I suppose, plus it’ll give me chance to move on some other wheels in order to pay the £80 for them .

Final render





Offside


Nearside



In work










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[J_Con]

Didn't know which company did this, this is gonna open an expensive can of worms wheels look nice, good luck being patient!

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[dan@biali]

Is that your work on Inventor?! And I thought I was nuts Do the wheel company do any stress and strain analysis to make sure they're a safe design? Bet they still end up cheaper than my last set of ADV1s......................

[Danwatts18]

Woohoo custom wheel gang

[Lister79]

Yeah it’s my work Dan. I carried out FEA on my original design prior to handing it over, and they also completed it for the final design. I wouldn’t be going ahead with it otherwise.
I’m that bad I even done calculations for my chassis notch to ensure strength remained unaffected (hence the side plates), even then I very nearly didn’t do it due to the change it potentially poses in the event of a collision and compaction of the crumble zone.


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[dan@biali]

I guessed you probably would have, interesting to hear the wheel company have done it as well. Always wondered how much effort the wheel companies put in behind the scenes but I suppose with modern 3d design programs its a built in function to be able to run FEA so its just a button press or 2 - gone is the day when we had to do the Youngs Modulus calculation on paper and input huge amounts of data into a dedicated linux based piece of software and leave it running overnight only to discover the program had crashed through the night or you'd put a decimal place in the wrong place!

[Lister79]

Luckily I’ve never had to experience that, or I’d be even balder than I am . Thankfully things have progressed considerably and like you say a few clicks and a short wait and it’s done. Makes changes very easy.


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[Dav02]

Smart, and impressive work, gives the van a whole new 'one off build/look'
And cheap too! £80!

However I'm not sure on the gold. Can't say that's for me. But I guess it will match the Yellow accents the van has. Maybe........
Did you photoshop them on a photo of the van for a look. See how they matched up?

[Lister79]

The gold will look right against the brown and yellow, the one in the renders is a bit brighter to what they will actually be done in. The wheels will be ceramic polished with a gold tinted lacquer over the top so like a light mirror gold really.
I done a basic photoshop but it was just using my render so didn’t have the callipers behind so looked a bit naff.


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