Painted my Hubs and Installed H&R Spacers

Singh97 · 10-15-2013, 11:09 PM

Just purchased some spacers and before putting them on I decided to clean my hubs and paint them. The over spray on disks came right off when I drove the X5 for a day.
The paint looks good and more clean when you look into the wheels. I also painted the spacers black to match my hubs.
The 20mm spacers makes the wheels perfect snug fit with the fender flares. The rear looks
Just followed the process for rear wheels at this point, will be cleaning/painting fronts and installing spacers next week.

larryv · 10-16-2013, 01:09 AM

Looking good!

X5MFan · 10-16-2013, 08:46 AM

Looks great. Are you doing 20 mm all around?

Singh97 · 10-16-2013, 03:26 PM

Thank you larry

You are the man, thank you for all the guidance and help.

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Originally Posted by larryv

Looking good!

Singh97 · 10-16-2013, 03:28 PM

Thank you. No I am doing 20MM only in rear, the fronts will be 12MM.
Just wanted to make the wheels flush with the fender flares and hopefully this will be enough.

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Originally Posted by X5MFan

Looks great. Are you doing 20 mm all around?

rennis · 10-16-2013, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Singh97

Thank you. No I am doing 20MM only in rear, the fronts will be 12MM.
Just wanted to make the wheels flush with the fender flares and hopefully this will be enough.

Fronts will be flush. Rears could go wider but I also went with 20mm rears and will stick with them. don't want to run any wider, and risk any more bearing fatigue than I am at 20mm.

Endless619 · 10-16-2013, 04:01 PM

Welcome to my world. Did this a month or so ago.

Singh97 · 10-16-2013, 05:27 PM

I did the stick test and my rear is pretty flush with fender flares, pictures don't do justice, i will post some better pictures next week.

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Originally Posted by rennis

Fronts will be flush. Rears could go wider but I also went with 20mm rears and will stick with them. don't want to run any wider, and risk any more bearing fatigue than I am at 20mm.

Singh97 · 10-16-2013, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Endless619

Welcome to my world. Did this a month or so ago.

rodolfo · 10-16-2013, 10:59 PM

Do the H&R 20mm spacers come with longer lug bolts?

what about the 12mm ones?

Singh97 · 10-18-2013, 06:34 PM

Yes they do.

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Originally Posted by rodolfo

Do the H&R 20mm spacers come with longer lug bolts?

what about the 12mm ones?

iMore · 11-01-2013, 12:42 PM

Looks good... and great idea BTW!

Singh97 · 11-01-2013, 01:54 PM

Thank you.
I finished cleaning/painting my front rotors as well. Installed 12mm spacers. Just didn't have time to upload the pictures yet.

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Originally Posted by iMore

Looks good... and great idea BTW!

GBe93 · 11-03-2013, 07:10 PM

Hi, a couple of quick questions
1. Did you use special paint? Just wondering if regular paint will hold up to the heat of the rotors during use.
2. Aren't you worried the paint on the face of the rotors will contaminate the pads?

Overall it looks really good and I'm thinking of painting mine on my 2010 M Sport.
Thanks,
Greg

P1 · 11-03-2013, 07:32 PM

Nice garage mate, plenty of space to work. Reminds me that I need to take off the my wheels at some point and give them a proper cleaning. It's been a while.

mlee4984 · 11-04-2013, 10:04 AM

Good stuff, want to do mine next? HAHA
That jack doesn't look very safe by the way. Always have the car on jack stands and at least a better jack than that POS you have there. I almost lost my foot with those stupid scissor jacks.

Mike

GBe93 · 11-04-2013, 11:44 AM

One more question, what type of attachment did you use on your drill to clean the rotors?

Singh97 · 11-04-2013, 01:37 PM

Thank you for the compliments.

I used Rustoleum Automotive high heat spray paint and it will hold on pretty good. The over-spray on the rotors came right of after i drove the car next day.

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Originally Posted by GBe93

Hi, a couple of quick questions
1. Did you use special paint? Just wondering if regular paint will hold up to the heat of the rotors during use.
2. Aren't you worried the paint on the face of the rotors will contaminate the pads?

Overall it looks really good and I'm thinking of painting mine on my 2010 M Sport.
Thanks,
Greg

Singh97 · 11-04-2013, 01:38 PM

Thanks man. I need to details my X5 as well

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Originally Posted by P1et

Nice garage mate, plenty of space to work. Reminds me that I need to take off the my wheels at some point and give them a proper cleaning. It's been a while.

Singh97 · 11-04-2013, 01:39 PM

Sure. I will be glad to help.
And yeah i know these jacks are not safe so I did used jack stands for safety. You can see them in first 2 pictures.

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Originally Posted by mlee4984

Good stuff, want to do mine next? HAHA
That jack doesn't look very safe by the way. Always have the car on jack stands and at least a better jack than that POS you have there. I almost lost my foot with those stupid scissor jacks.

Mike

Singh97 · 11-04-2013, 01:41 PM

Its just a regular wire brush attachment i got form Lowes.

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Originally Posted by GBe93

One more question, what type of attachment did you use on your drill to clean the rotors?

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