i think one off the best things you do on a truck to make it look better is the wheels…
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a bit of sand paper to clean the overpaint off and jobs a good un. 
It’s a slippery road to frilly curtains JD! Nice pelmet for the weekend:-)
No chance dave, thats enough for me.
Are you weekended out Alex and bored?? 
They come up a treat though fair play to you
that looks like one of our old Volvos JD. the colours are the same, wierd green and red. Whats the reg number…PM me if you dont wanna put it on open forum.
Or am I completely wrong and youve had it painted
Yj07 eyy it’s the same cours devanneys have used for 30 years.
jessicas dad:
Yj07 eyy it’s the same cours devanneys have used for 30 years.
I was wrong then sorry i apologise profusely sir
toowise:
jessicas dad:
Yj07 eyy it’s the same cours devanneys have used for 30 years.I was wrong then sorry i apologise profusely sir
That’s just not good enough!!! 40 lashes to you sir!.
jessicas dad:
toowise:
jessicas dad:
Yj07 eyy it’s the same cours devanneys have used for 30 years.I was wrong then sorry i apologise profusely sir
That’s just good enough!!! 40 lashes to you sir!.
Now now JD, Im not that sort of driver…well not in public anyway
Looks good, what paint did you use?
On the axle hub I used hammerite smooth red due to heat, and wheel hubs I used basic halfords silver wheel spray.
I expect to have to keep up with them.
Oddly enough I spent about 2 hours today (nothing else to do) scrubbing my ally wheels with those cheap soap filled wire wool pads to make them look silver again. They looked quite nice and sparkly for a while then I went out and did a mammoth 40km or so on dry clean roads and they now look dull and crap again.
Can you paint Alcoa wheels?
Have you got discs on your truck?
the dust tarnishes the ally quite quickly.
Alcoa do a coated wheel for trucks with discs.
If you do paint a wheel, never paint the stud holes or the part that faces the hub at the back, unless you want the wheel to fall off the next week.
8wheels:
Oddly enough I spent about 2 hours today (nothing else to do) scrubbing my ally wheels with those cheap soap filled wire wool pads to make them look silver again. They looked quite nice and sparkly for a while then I went out and did a mammoth 40km or so on dry clean roads and they now look dull and crap again.Can you paint Alcoa wheels?
To be fair I had a go on my tanks bearing in mind I only have to do the tops cos the lorry has side skirts on and it seemed like hard work so I gave it up!!! I’m not that bothered.
Sorry to hijack your post with an unrelated question. But, do the ‘other’ Devanny still exist? The lot from Bradford who work for Hauser doing groupage to Germany and France? He once offered me a job doing Strasbourg groupage but the way things worked there seemed a bit odd to say the least so I passed. I never saw any of his motors this winter back in England so just wondered.
robinhood_1984:
Sorry to hijack your post with an unrelated question. But, do the ‘other’ Devanny still exist? The lot from Bradford who work for Hauser doing groupage to Germany and France? He once offered me a job doing Strasbourg groupage but the way things worked there seemed a bit odd to say the least so I passed. I never saw any of his motors this winter back in England so just wondered.
no they really confused me for a while till i was loading where they kept there lorries and were talking to one of their drivers, totally different company and a bit of a fly by night sort of thing.
jessicas dad:
8wheels:
Oddly enough I spent about 2 hours today (nothing else to do) scrubbing my ally wheels with those cheap soap filled wire wool pads to make them look silver again. They looked quite nice and sparkly for a while then I went out and did a mammoth 40km or so on dry clean roads and they now look dull and crap again.Can you paint Alcoa wheels?
To be fair I had a go on my tanks bearing in mind I only have to do the tops cos the lorry has side skirts on and it seemed like hard work so I gave it up!!! I’m not that bothered.
No need mate just lob it through the truckwash. I heard there’s a cheap one at Les Herbieres 
billybigrig:
jessicas dad:
8wheels:
Oddly enough I spent about 2 hours today (nothing else to do) scrubbing my ally wheels with those cheap soap filled wire wool pads to make them look silver again. They looked quite nice and sparkly for a while then I went out and did a mammoth 40km or so on dry clean roads and they now look dull and crap again.Can you paint Alcoa wheels?
To be fair I had a go on my tanks bearing in mind I only have to do the tops cos the lorry has side skirts on and it seemed like hard work so I gave it up!!! I’m not that bothered.
No need mate just lob it through the truckwash. I heard there’s a cheap one at Les Herbieres
im back next week which surprised me after i refused a pick up and told them if they wanted me to deliver it in england they can bring it to me on one of their lorries, im not paying 37 euros to go and collect a pallet after i was in the area the day before 
GasGas:
Have you got discs on your truck?the dust tarnishes the ally quite quickly.
Alcoa do a coated wheel for trucks with discs.
If you do paint a wheel, never paint the stud holes or the part that faces the hub at the back, unless you want the wheel to fall off the next week.
Yes they are discs, to be fair I’ve lived with them dull and usually caked in crap for the last year. I get a lot of site work and usually there is a forest of plant in the way of the steam cleaner so keeping the wagon clean is fairly low priority.
The putting a trim on the drive axle works looks-wise I think as well.