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  • 11-03-2008 8:53pm
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    Enright
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭


    Now before every1 kills me, i know that they are not to everyones taste. I have a 220 cdi, imported from the uk, the road salt is starting to rust just under the wheel arches, if i sand them down and prime them, i hope to cover over with chrome wheel arches.

    Im wondering if anyone knows of a good irish source for them?

    i heard about someone in Galway! any1 have details?


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,455 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    I think the rust would look better!


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    http://cgi.ebay.ie/Mercedes-C-Class-W203-01-05-chrome-wheel-arches-103_W0QQitemZ360005685982QQihZ023QQcategoryZ10398QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohostinghttp://cgi.ebay.ie/Mercedes-C-Class-W203-01-05-chrome-wheel-arches-103_W0QQitemZ360005685982QQihZ023QQcategoryZ10398QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQ_trksidZp1638.m118.l1247QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting


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    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Tack-tastic.

    May aswell go the whole hog and get a few rolls of the chrome tape from Aldi and do all the door surrounds.:D


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    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    I think the rust would look better!
    +1

    Chrome arches always say, loudly: I've rust problems and I've covered them up with these tacky yokes.


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    dfer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 138 ✭✭dfer


    :eek: No sorry thats lidl/argos styling. Don't waste your money, imho.


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    coolbeans
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    In the name of all that is tasteful DON"T DO IT!!;)


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    colm_mcm
    Registered Users Posts: 73,455 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    to be fair, he's doing it to hide damage.


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    coolbeans
    Registered Users Posts: 3,083 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    If it's just surface rust can't you just sand it down, fill it and paint. Might be expensive but it'll look so much better if you can find the right guy to do it.
    If I knew where to get the chrome arches I'd tell you but I don't so sorry. Ebay perhaps?


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    promethius
    Registered Users Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭promethius


    Noooooo, chrome.....
    Are you a taxi driver or a farmer?


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    Enright
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Enright


    neither a farmer nor a taxi driver! i thought twice about putting up the post.

    guess i should have thought THREE times

    looks like its the sandpaper for me


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    alpina
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭alpina


    Surely it's about what the op. personally prefers..
    If you did end up with them however make it a habit to remove & clean couple of times a year or you will end up with no arches.

    Guess it depends on what you like.


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    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    alpina wrote: »
    Surely it's about what the op. personally prefers..
    Maybe the OP likes to wear his underpants on his head too. Should we tell him that it looks naff or encourage him?


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    Volvoboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    Hmm i always thought they looked well especally on Mercs.

    Every Merc or Bmw my dad got his hands on he'd put a set on.




    -VB-


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    pburns
    Registered Users Posts: 2,423 ✭✭✭pburns


    Volvoboy wrote: »
    Hmm i always thought they looked well especally on Mercs.

    Every Merc or Bmw my dad got his hands on he'd put a set on.


    -VB-

    Yeah but you're a taxi driver...
    (...and you have a soft-spot for Carinas if memory serves me correctly...) So there's no hope for ye:D...

    In fairness to the OP though at least he has the good grace to be embarrassed.


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    #15
    Volvoboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,479 ✭✭✭Volvoboy


    pburns wrote: »
    (...and you have a soft-spot for Carinas if memory serves me correctly...) So there's no hope for ye:D...

    Gettin' me 7th one on friday:D



    Hopeless i agree:pac:

    -VB-


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    Dermo123
    Registered Users Posts: 384 ✭✭Dermo123


    Chromed wheel arches on any car especially Mercs or BMW's reminds me of chromed wheel archs on whomever owns those caravans that you see parked on grassy verges of roads all around Ireland. Front wings can be surprisingly cheap for some cars. Sweeping the problem under the carpet with those chrome arches is not the answer.


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