Headlight time
they work!
Wheels came in!
SSanding begins
Lowered~eibach's
Intro 2006 CLK500 post F/L
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2006 Facelift CLK500 Cab-
Headlights, clear corners.
mid-painting process
Finally done!!!! note to others, if you are thinking about painting/fixing curb rash on your own wheels.........
dont.
It's not that difficult, its just very time consuming.
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Looking good and I can certainly appreciate your attention to detail and to do things right. Looking forward to seeing those wheels on the car.
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Thanks a lot kev! I'm a mechanic at heart, I can sit in the garage working on a vehicle for hours on end and never get tired of it. I have a 97 wrangler that I have almost replaced every part on, and the only reason I bought it was to satisfy my need to work on things without becoming homeless in the process haha.
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I know the feeling. When I was back in Canada I was working on my car all the time, tinkering here, custom fabing something there, I loved it. In fact, when I went back to Canada for a quick holiday last May I hauled my car out of storage and worked on it at a friends house for a few days...
So, after almost 5 years of doing nothing I'm getting pretty pumper about getting all my parts and working on the CLK now, that's the only reason I bought it.
BTW, it looks like the paint laid out nice and flat after it dried on the wheels. Sign of good prep work.
So, after almost 5 years of doing nothing I'm getting pretty pumper about getting all my parts and working on the CLK now, that's the only reason I bought it.
BTW, it looks like the paint laid out nice and flat after it dried on the wheels. Sign of good prep work.
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Thanks a lot guys! They are The Linea Corses from Cannonball55's car on here. Kev, yes, there were a few days of sanding-cleaning-resanding-priming-sanding-cleaning-repriming-sanding. in there to finally level everything out. Nope, they car had Halogen Headlamps, one of them was broken off inside the housing and a tab was broken so I said why not go ahead and get the projectors.
Wheels
19x8.5 F
19x9.5 R
Wheels
19x8.5 F
19x9.5 R
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04 CLK 320 > CLK32K
I bought my city lights from eBay seller 'polyled'. The fogs are a 6000k HID kit from hidextra. I believe sponsor AZN is selling some city lights that work. Klinh installed them.
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Sweeeeeet. I just PM'd him about some LED city-sidemarker-license plate lights that go well with the factory HID.
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Thanks man! Yea as soon as my f/r akebono pads come in I'll throw these on and change out the pads while I'm at it, they have been squeeking a little. Also, the factory metallic pads put off an ubsurd amount of dust, that alone is reason enough to change them to ceramic. I'm kinda looking into drilled/slotted rotors, anyone have experience with the R1 rotors?
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I see you are a big DIY'er. More props to you. It must feel great looking at the fruits of your labor. I used the R1 rotors for a while and they were great. No complaints.
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My hat off to you for all the work on those wheels! I've prep'd and painted wheels before but never re-shaped and repaired curb rash. Awesome effort.
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Thanks a lot. Yea I just like having the personal satisfaction of doing things myself, not to mention it saves $. In a couple months I think I'll be getting a set of those R1's.
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Thanks kev. It's really not bad as long as you don't have to recreate a perfect angle/curve or anything like that. I started the whole wheel painting thing telling myself "it doesnt matter how long it takes" just so I wouldn't rush and not allow adequate drying times/not sand everything properly etc. I will say sanding in between all of those spokes was a P.I.T.A. I worked on them averaged out about an hr a night for about 2 weeks, most of that was letting stuff dry for 2 days per coat.
