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Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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Hi all,

Has anyone attempted anything to bring the faded colour back to life?

Thinking of lots of ideas in my head but surely this has been covered before?

The inner wheel under where the tire was in perfect, the outside is faded as you would expect..

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Re: Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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Hi there
Never seen or heard anyone talking about this before what ideas were you thinking?
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pedro wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2019 7:00 pm Hi there
Never seen or heard anyone talking about this before what ideas were you thinking?
Peter
Hi Peter,

Maybe a lathe? Polish? light sand?

Nobody has tried?

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Re: Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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You could get some rit dye fuscia and start with a small amount of dye and adjust to get as close as you can to unfaded part of the wheel.

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Re: Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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GWXP wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2019 9:28 pm
pedro wrote: Fri Dec 27, 2019 7:00 pm Hi there
Never seen or heard anyone talking about this before what ideas were you thinking?
Peter
Hi Peter,

Maybe a lathe? Polish? light sand?

Nobody has tried?
Yeah I have tried that and it did work bit like restoring headlights/tail lights on a car I suppose might be much easier to try the dye method though?

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Re: Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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I have an 870c with a set of faded pink rims just like the ones mentioned above.... i actually quite like the weathered 'patina' if you can call it that. The contrast between the outer face of the rims and the inner wheel area looks kinda cool in my eyes. There are plenty of new, unfaded Yokomo rims about so to me it seems a shame to remove the history of the faded ones. I have a set of orange Pro Radiant wishbones with a similar amount of fade when compared to a new set.

Just my opinion, but i would leave them exactly as they are and use them!
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Re: Yokomo Pink Wheel Fade

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dinglem wrote: Sat Dec 28, 2019 4:51 am I have an 870c with a set of faded pink rims just like the ones mentioned above.... i actually quite like the weathered 'patina' if you can call it that. The contrast between the outer face of the rims and the inner wheel area looks kinda cool in my eyes. There are plenty of new, unfaded Yokomo rims about so to me it seems a shame to remove the history of the faded ones. I have a set of orange Pro Radiant wishbones with a similar amount of fade when compared to a new set.

Just my opinion, but i would leave them exactly as they are and use them!

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Yeah you might have just convinced me to leave them.. I appreciate the feed back from everyone.. back soon with pics..

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