Ammo's Ute

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Errol62
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Re: Ammo's Ute

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Honestly, I don’t know how you can avoid a bit of rubbing on cornering if you want the top of the tyre hidden, unless you go 1980s flares. I was worried about it when I took mine for modified vehicle inspection, but they didn’t look at it. When I had 185/60 R14 tyres on they said it was too low. Then I fitted 195/75 R14 tyres and no questions asked, even though the clearance on lock is minimal.


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Picked some indicator surrounds and the guard strips from A CLass yesterday.
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As always, good quality chroming and the surrounds had a crack that had to to fixed. these pieces were there for nearly 8 weeks
I can see why there are painted or powder coating bumper etc as the cost of good chroming is expensive.
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Pending on what Anne-marie likes for the grill, these may end up on the sedan.
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I hope the chrome will last this time.......

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holy crap, I had ALL the die cast and steel redone on the ute in 2010 and the whole lot including door handles, bonnet bird etc was $810 ......
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Why do you think Frank doesn’t have much chrome the boss would have freaked out if I presented the bill :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Yes, I draw the line at rechroming.


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Re: Ammo's Ute

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I watched a video on YouTube a few months back on how they chrome stuff , he'll of a lot of work goes into it was quite interesting.

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