CONTROVERSIAL NEW WHEELS! Switch Up for My BMW 1M Shmeemobile | 1M PROJECT PART 6

It's time for the first visual change to my BMW 1M. A potentially controversial change, so stick around to the end of the video to let me know what you think. Now this is still largely stock, but there's something we absolutely have to sort out. The tyres are seriously dated. In fact, the front ones are about six years old, the rear ones are now about eight years old. So if we're taking the tyres off, that means the wheels are already off. These wheels have been refurbished at some point earlier in their life, but perhaps they could do with a freshen up, they don't have the shine. And by the time we're taking the car to whoops, we'll fix it, we're taking the tyres off, we're freshening up the wheels, why not change the colour? Why not come up with something to make this a little bit more unique? And I kind of had previous with doing some unusual things when it comes to wheels on project cars. So let's see how this is going to unravel with the colour that I've chosen. I know that changing tyres isn't the number one most exciting thing in the world, but it has to be done with this. We've actually had a brand new set of Mission and Pilot Sport 4S tyres sitting, waiting here on the rack to go on this car, and it is time to go get them on. And that's why I was kind of like, two plus two equals four? Why don't we have some fun with it along the way? Remember when I bought this car, it was the cheapest BMW 1M in the entire country, the whole of the United Kingdom, and I have not seen one for less since I purchased it, because it had 94,000 miles on it. So I was a bit worried there were going to be a lot of underlying problems. Turned out to be pretty good. When we took it over to Evolve, popped it up on the ramps, did a bit of an inspection, it turned out that it's been really quite well looked after. So the first thing that we did was here at the Shmuseum, Brad and I installed the new infotainment system from Droid UK. We've got wireless Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, also a reversing camera. Simple stuff, but makes the car even more usable as a kind of daily at the moment. Then we took it to get it fully serviced. We did a LiquiMoly service over at Marlin Motors to run through the whole car, change all of the liquids, make sure everything was fully up to scratch, but we still had this diff problem. So we took it over to Bird's, we installed the Quaife ATB differential, a new rear diff, and now thankfully all the clunking and awkward noises that I had from this have been resolved as well. But it's time to start making it into a bit of a project. That really got us thinking, what can we do, and I'm talking exhaust, suspension, brakes, all sorts of fun things on the interior, trims and visual changes, and I wanted to get cracking straight on with what we're going to be doing today. Hi guys, I'm Shmee, hello and welcome back to the channel, and today we're taking the BMW 1M over to Whoops Will Fix It for my potentially controversial wheel choice. The good news of course is that this now has a working rear differential, no more clunks, weird noises and that type of stuff. Although I do think we should do something with the exhaust, that is high on the agenda, the priority list at the moment, as we head out on a wet and gloomy day here in the United Kingdom, pretty standard stuff really, although I tell you what, this button with the new diff, traction, has quickly become a very fun button to play with, because this thing was super super snappy before, I talked a little bit about this when I took it for the run after the install at Bird's, but the more driving I've done with it and the more familiar I've got with the car, it's so much more controllable than it was before, but hey, I couldn't possibly comment any further on that topic here in the UK, could I? I do enjoy having the infotainment, and I tell you a funny thing actually about having that installed, is that on the steering wheel here we've got the M button, which puts it into sport and makes the throttle a lot more responsive, and I've been reading into this a little bit, it's kind of complicated what else it actually changes, but previously, because of how the system is made, this was obviously effectively considering it like the regular E82 one series, which would have your disc changer button up top, and as a result it would then look for a signal that it couldn't find, but the guys at Droid actually immediately helped me with that one, when I was like, how do I figure this out? So we've got that completely working as it should, and looks nice, and I just appreciate having that, the standard car has a system up on the dash anyway, but we're heading around, not the longest drive from where we are now, another 15 minutes or so, to get to visit our friends at Woops or Fix It, who have done many different projects for the Schwimmer wheels before, talk more about that when we get there, and today I've never actually watched the entire process myself, so I'm kind of intrigued to see exactly what's going to happen with all of this. We are nearly there, so as soon as we've got this car in, we will basically pull the wheels off and get them stripped down, now you might be wondering what about the tyres, because we clearly don't have them in the back, and we haven't brought another car either, well the idea is to come back when the wheels are being painted, to show you some of that process, so obviously we can bring the tyres over when we come back this way, as we go over the pretty rough bit of ground there, anyway this is where we will turn into Woops, we will fix it, not because the Woops or the wheels have a Woops in this particular instance, but we do want them to be fixed, so let's get this in. Back in a familiar location then, with the 1M alongside a very curious 911 Carrera GTS, because this car is wearing some 6AD forged wheels that are paint matched to the body colour, so this is crayon or chalk depending what region you're in, that's quite an interesting look, hmm, it's not what we were necessarily considering for today, but some food for thought before I show you later on what we are going for, now we've been here to Woops, we'll fix it many times, whether it's for tyre swaps, like on the Puro Sangue recently, back onto its summer tyres, whether it's been for complete wheel repairs, like the slightly damaged and bent wheels I had on my C63 AMG Black Series, for complete wheel colour changes, like the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, where we went Aurum Gold rather than the traditional Taycan look, we also did the MSRT Transit Custom Vans wheels to white to match the STO, in fact the STO as well going gloss white against the Viola Bast paintwork, we've done lots of refreshes and tidy ups, like the V8 Vantage Roadster to make them more of a gloss silver, the Clio V6 when we were refreshing that car as well, plus even a few pretty cool details, like on the SLS AMG Black Series, where the AMG graphic on the wheels was paint matched to the Mystic Blue bodywork of the car itself, so the guys here do an incredible job, but to make that all happen is the equipment back here, so this is going to get lifted up, wheels off, and we're going to go through the motions with these wheels as they get tidied up, changed up, and made into exactly what I would like on this car. I'm not going to lie, this paint colour would look pretty nice on the wheels, Valencia Orange, it's the bold, I guess, original launch colour of the 1M, it's gone on to be a pretty popular 1 Series colour in days that have followed. These are the standard wheels, which are already a unique wheel set for the 1 Series M Coupe when it was introduced, but step one is to get this lifted up so we can get those off it and then get it ready to go through the motions. Step one, car up in the air, it's got a jack positioned underneath to lift the whole thing up, make it nice and easy, and we can get all the wheels off, always the first thing, and one of the interesting tests actually when the tyres have been removed is to figure out if any of these are bent, buckled, or anything weird, because at the moment we don't know the answer to that question, but up it goes. First one off, obviously tyres need to come off, and yeah, not the cleanest in the world, apologies for that. All the wheels are off and Si here has just discovered something. Yeah, first thing we do, just to check how long these are going to be in the tank for, just to see how many refurbs they've had, so if you sand through to metal you can just count them, they're like rings of the wood of a tree, one, two, three. That's literally how many times these wheels have been repainted before, and it just kind of paints straight over the top? Yeah, they haven't stripped it in between, so this will take three times longer in the tank now. Really? Is that a problem though, or is it just a kind of, let's say, delay? Yeah, it's just a time-saving thing for people, or they haven't got the tank to strip them, so the best way is to strip them, because you lose all detail, so the paint becomes really thick, centre caps don't fit properly, flooding out all the detail of the wheel, and the wheel just looks a bit gloopy, so you know, once that all comes off, the wheel's going to be much sharper. And that's before we know right, if they're straight, because they could be bent, buckled, they could be that too, but yeah, that's interesting. Tires off and see, you've got like a cheeky smile on your face. Yeah, yeah, we see it a lot, to be fair. I've spotted something here. Going to let all of the air out, obviously, get these tires off. I'll probably keep them for reasons at the barn, we'll see exactly about that. I'm going to have a little go, and see how many layers are on here. I've got to be more aggressive than this. Sand through it a bit, try and bend this down. There's a lot of layers of stuff on here. Okay, starting to get through, starting to get through. What are we going to find? That is the question. A few moments later. A few moments later, you find a professional. This one's only got one layer, which is great. I don't feel so stupid for not finding so many rings on it then. Okay, so that one will come out quickly. One tire off from the one that we started with, which is by far the worst, the others all only have one layer, so we kind of got lucky there. I say lucky, unlucky, whichever way you want to look at it, because these are all going to have to wait until that one has been stripped. This is always kind of a nervy moment. That's good. Does it spin straight? That's good. That's really, really good. That's literally what you want. Well, that's just one. We're a quarter of the way through. When the tire is off, the wheel then comes through here, because obviously things like the wheel weights need to be removed, various other bits of glue and residue and things like that, just to make sure, obviously valves, everything comes out, then basically it's going to get a pre-wash before it then goes into the full tanks. The first one's already gone right here, got its wash. It will then go into this tank where it will be completely stripped down, obviously with all of the layers, as we've seen, it's going to take a bit of time, but this is a case of getting wheel weights off, getting everything prepped, getting it ready, and learning as we go here. Into the next tank it goes, and yeah, pre-wash begins. I mean, this kind of makes sense, because wheels never get a thorough decontamination all the way through the inside, right? So they need to get washed properly. Obviously give that a bit of a rinse down, cleaned at least for the start, obviously they will be painted and completely clean later on, but you've got to start somewhere. This is why all the right equipment like this makes it significantly easier to get cracking on with that. Tire coming off the last wheel, always amazes me watching this process and how exactly it's done. Let's get that up, get it up over the top, and effectively pull it straight off. Maybe one day we'll have something like that ourselves, but swiftly and efficiently does it with the experts. With all four here now, one thing that's interesting to me about this is how you can see these three all match with presumably factory primer, and that is different, and that was the one we started looking at, so that obviously had previous work done on it, but these are about to get stripped down, or that process begins. All the wheels now go into this machine, which is going to blast them, and it's going to take a while to go through all the different layers, but this is, I guess, the clever stuff to strip down the paint that's on these at the beginning, because if you don't have that, it's not going to be possible to paint them on again. So yeah, I mean, I'm seeing a million different warning messages, so I'm just going to stand well back while this runs, and maybe we'll be able to see something happening through the window shortly. Si, can you explain what actually happens here? Sure. So this is our strip tank. It's a revolutionary strip tank. It's not putting the wheels into a trough of liquid. This has the wheels on a rack, and basically, the solution sprays on the wheels. So as you can see in there, they're not in a tank or anything. They're just sitting on a rack. The chemical washes over the wheels, and that will bubble up the paint, and it will lift the paint off with heat and alkali. Basically, the paint will get washed off the wheel as it comes off the wheel into these buckets. Now, the idea of these buckets is to remove the paint as soon as it comes off the wheel, because when the paint's sitting in the bottom of a tank, it's degrading the fluid. So this basically keeps the fluid fresh and efficient. Otherwise, you've got to keep on changing the fluid. How long does it take? Three hours, I've been set. A day, if you're stripping nine layers of paint, which is running all wheels. So we'll see. As you can imagine, this process now takes a little bit of time, but I'm going to show you what it looks like in a few hours with the paint bubbling and effectively stripped off the wheels to give us the right base for which the team here can then paint them in our choice of colour. And we're now going to return back when it's time to do that, and I can show you, firstly, what we're going for, and secondly, how this process actually works from here forwards to lead with the right result to make this thing look absolutely epic. We are back, and we have brought the sunshine. It's a lovely day, and we're here in the pink van because, of course, we needed to bring over the tyres. So we now have the new tyres for the car, which we will unload and take on in before we go and see the next stages and what's going to be happening with all of this. So we've got our lovely new rubber, which this car sorely needed, to be completely honest. So these will get inside, and then we'll go crack on with this, and I'm looking forward to seeing the colour coming to life. We're back with the wheels then. What's happened to these since I was last here? The paint's come off. They spent the weekend in a tank. We've jet-hosed all of the residue away, and we've sandblasted the wheels or shot-blasted the wheels. We've created this texture to the surface of the wheel, which is going to help the primer grip and embed and stay durable, basically. Okay, so that helps when you paint them. What are these for? These are the bungs to protect. I'll show you. So we don't want any paint landing in that cone because that's where the bolt goes in and holds it onto the wheel. So you don't want any uneven surface there. Paint can be uneven, so it's better to just bung that up and protect it from any paint. Makes sense. Now I'm going to state the obvious. It's pretty noisy here because we're standing right next to the animal, we like to call it. So these wheels will go on the spindles. They're going to go through there at 230 degrees, spend about 20 minutes going through there, and then they'll shoot round to the primer boot, and we'll lay down the colour that Tim's decided to do on these wheels. Yeah, you make it sound so easy. You'll see. Let's track these, let's track what happens with these as they go on through from here. This is literally, as the name on the tin, the wheels go on the spindles, they'll then make their way through the oven for the primer, and then we're going to be seeing this process through the motions. I find it fascinating because it's something we all know, right? We've got a new neighbour next to the 1M. Cars, wheel changes, well, wheel refurbs, fixes. Obviously there are tons of wheels being worked on here, but not many people would actually know how this works and what happens through the animal, as Si said. While that's happening, it is time to reveal the wheel choice, the colour that I've gone for. Now I'm just going to say that colours of things, whether it's body paint, accessories, pinstripes, details, are a very personal choice. Some people would go with gloss black, satin black maybe, something like that. Some people would just go with the bright silver, like it was in stock form. I like something a bit different. I like something that makes it a little bit more unique. This is a project, this deserves to look the part. So the colour choice we have gone for is, as we have on the test wheel here, this is neodyme. Now we haven't yet chosen if it's going to be satin like this or gloss, but through the process we'll actually get to see both. But this, this light metallic gold against the Valencia orange is going to look the absolute business. I am very excited to see that come together. So what happens is that those get baked, they then get primer, which is actually black, then they get baked again, then we'll see the paint colour going down. It'll be gloss at first and then if you're going to make them satin afterwards, you add that later. So it'll be fun to see that and to be able to make the decision of what we're going to go for. But that's it, neodyme gold against the orange. Coming around then at the back there, the first wheel has come out from being baked and is being brought over to where it's going to be primed. This is where we're going to see that going black, I believe. It'll be fun to see parts of, standing on the outside, checking it over, getting everything ready. And that's simple. I say that's simple, but it requires the exact equipment, knowledge and experience to do a great job. That gets its first primer layer inside the booth here before it will go back around and get baked again. Crazy. Now that you can see it's fully black, barrels and on the inside as well. Really cool to see that process. One wheel comes out. That's quite cool actually. That looks hot. Next wheel has just arrived to get its layer of primer. But this is the OEM wheel in gloss black, which I'm sure lots of people think looks amazing. This is actually kind of cool, but not my style, not what I'm going for with this car, to be honest. Back through they go. My wheel's going back in to be baked in the primer. And out they all come at the other end. So once these are all through, it's going to be painting time. It's going to be time to turn these neodyme, a colour which we're going to see in a moment. This is it then. It's time. We can start to see some of that colour going down. I'm standing away because obviously I'm not wearing a clean suit and we do want anything to get onto this wheel. Oh, that's looking really cool. I'm not sure how much you can see. Sorry, we're kind of peering in from outside, but that is looking lovely. This is going to be amazing. I can't wait. This is genuinely fascinating. Literally watching paint going down the way it spins. And then of course doing the barrel. So we'll start to see much more of the colour here. Start to see that transforming over that black base layer. Oh yeah. Just like that. Neodyme going down. Inside as well of course. This is it. Check that out. Right, do not touch. But that is a neodyme M wheel currently in satin finish and it is looking amazing. Back in here though, because now it gets lacquered, which is quite funny because that basically looks white from here. But this will be the gloss lacquer and then you effectively do the satin afterwards. So it goes gloss first, although that's really weird in white, but I'm sure that's how it's supposed to be. That now goes through to get baked and once it's been baked, it will go clear. It's kind of funny to think that that is literally satin white right now, but will go clear. Another thing that we need to draw attention to is the M badge that would go here. That needs to be bought, so we need to get a set of those, which we can do from the local BMW dealer. Just like that, another wheel emerges, ready to go and get baked. And meanwhile, the others are over here and it's very much like a conveyor, an industrial process of wheels coming through. The next one going in here then, straight from one onto the next. I'm not sure if we can see this. Maybe if I poke my camera in without burning myself, it's obviously quite hot in here. Yes, you can see the second one has started going a little bit clear. Sorry, it's a little bit dark. We're gonna have to wait for them to come out the other side. I see gold, wheel number three. I'm having a lot of fun watching this process happen. It's really interesting. And obviously, oh yeah, they're going white now. That's so unusual. I didn't imagine that part of it. This is the moment the gloss wheel comes around. And you know what? I've got to say, that in gloss looks pretty epic to me. So if we wanted to now do the satin, this would go round again. This would get baked again. But I feel like because OEM for this wheel is gloss, it feels more factory correct. I know it's a different colour. Neodymium is actually a Porsche colour. It's replaced the old Aurum gold that we had on the Taycan and on my 718 GT4. Whereas this is like, I guess if we're going out of OEM spec, we could do whatever we wanted. The colour of that is really, really nice. Oh, last minute decision to be made. Maybe we need to see if we can take this over to the car to go and like get a direct comparison. Right now though, I like that a lot. Right, time to see this with the car then. Oh yeah, that's nice. That's nice. Sorry, that's not easy to hold. I know, but that looks really good. Yep. Yep. Like it. Like it. Thank you. Absolutely love it. Nice. I am loving these. What do you think? They look great. I mean, usually the colour's done in satin, but it's a BMW wheel. They look great in gloss. Keep them in gloss. That was my theory. That's my theory. They look very reflective in gloss. So satin will dull that down quite a bit. So what happens from now? Because presumably these need to set for a while. Pull down, go rock hard. Then we're going to fit the tyres and then it's all the wheel furniture like the badges and centre caps and then on they go. We're on the car nice and easy. Yeah. Exciting times. Well, all four of these are now out. So that means we are going to leave these until we catch up with getting tyres mounted and balanced and then fitted. See what these look like back on the car. All four have now come through. So we've come back to this where we've got the satin wheel that we took a look at earlier. And I tell you what, gloss for me for this. Something about the design of the wheels, different designs, different spokes makes it suit better. So we will get these tyres mounted on those when we come back to get them on the car and we can see what it actually looks like. Get it back down on the ground and get it back to the museum. So for now, that's it for today. See you again when it's time to get it mounted up. We're back. Now the sun's just gone. When the sun was out, we got to see these in the sunshine and it was amazing. Unfortunately, we're going to have to wait because the sun is now behind a big dark grey cloud. But two of the tyres have been mounted back up. We've got two more of the PS4Ss to pop on. This colour has this kind of chrome effect in it. So when you have sunlight on this thing, it looks insane. They've obviously got the centre caps back in, but we need to get the little M badges and the old ones were looking a little bit worn. So we're going to pop by via a BMW dealer to go pick up some new ones of those. They've got them in stock, so we just need to go and get them. But these, these are looking absolutely mega. Yeah, let's get the other two tyres on and get ready to pop these in a moment back onto the car for the first time in neodyme and go see what they look like. The sun just popped back out, so look at this. Look at that colour. Oh, it's gone again. Too bad. We have to wait a moment. That is mega, isn't it? There we go. The colour of that. Okay, this is really cool. I actually can't wait until we get this car back on the ground and get all of these outside. But before that, they need to get mounted up. So over back towards the car over here, it's time to get some tyres. This is kind of interesting. We've got the original sample in satin and then the gloss. I'm happy we've gone for the gloss. It actually makes less, I would say, difference in bright sunshine than I originally thought. Obviously, you don't have the reflections of the spokes in the same way, but very happy to have gone with the super bright glossy finish in this particular instance. Obviously, on the Porsches, you'd normally have that look, the satin look. These, well, that got fitted up very quickly with our brand new tyres, which are, of course, perfect for this car. And I'm going to make a big difference to how it drives now, something I've been needing to resolve. That needs to get some air in it. The last one's going to get mounted up over here. And then I think we're pretty much there. It's all happened very, very, very quickly. I'm going to see what this looks like when they're back on it in a moment. It's amazing. Time to get some air in, get ready for the bang, the invariable double pop. Wait for it. Wait for it. It'll come. Always does. There we go. There'll be one more. Always makes you jump, even though you know it's coming. Quick cleaning the hubs with a wire brush because, yeah, a bit of rusty stuff, but accrued there before that can go on. First wheel going on. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. What a colour combo. Oh, that's mega. Obviously, get this in, get all the bolts in, get it torqued up, then we'll do the final tyre pressures. Oh, yeah. I'm happy now. I'm very happy that these are going to be heading on here. Before this goes back down to the ground, the last wheels being popped on now. One thing I do need to work out is what I'm going to do with the paint on this car, because, of course, it's done some miles. It's not perfect. To point out, for example, here, we've got a few little stone chips. You'd expect that. The car's done a lot of miles. There's also some bodywork that's not 100% right. The side skirts, I think, are actually on both sides of it, just slightly out of kilter. But these are things to work out. I don't want to do a full respray. I don't want to change the colour. But, yeah, we'll see. We'll see what's going to happen with that down the line. I think in a moment we're going to be down on the ground. Oh, look at this. First time seeing the two wheels on one side from the angle like that. Oh, that's cool. Down we go. It's always going to look different when it sits properly. Yes. Look at that. Look at that. Love it. Small change or small detail, maybe I should say, but mega results. Oh, yeah. We'll get it pulled out so we can see it better. The question is, how do we do that chrome bit and the kidney grilles to match? Or do we do them to match? Because all of those little extra details around the car and the badge at the back in the same colour, I think would look quite cool. It's sitting a little high because of the handbrake. That will go in a moment when we pull it forwards. Yeah, options, things to think about. There's nothing like seeing it on the move. Quick photo while we're still here and then we'll get this out and on the way back home. I've got to say, this looks amazing. The guys here at Wurps have done an insane job with this car. Obviously, there's a lot more still to come, but right now we're going to go and get those little badges, get it back to the museum, and that'll be like the finishing touch. But if you need a wheel colour change, a refurbish, your wheels sorted out in any way, this is where you need to come. Wurps will fix it. Enfield, just north of London. What a solid job. Right, let's magically hop in here, get it back to base. Before we go anywhere, seal of approval, guys? Perfect. Yeah. Thumbs up all around. Out in the sunshine. We didn't get very far, but it looks nice. It looks really nice. Epic. Thank you very much, guys. Epic job. Well done. Really nice. Really nice. We're back at the shmuseum and you'll have to accept my apology that it's absolute chaos here right now. That's all going to be explained soon. What I want to talk about are these tiny little stickers. So in this bag, there are four stickers. They're on the backside of that. Those four stickers cost, check this out, £31.63 for four little stickers, which amusingly is actually more expensive than the bolts. So these are about eight quid a sticker. Those are about five quid each because we were thinking about refreshing those, but I now need to get this opened up. It's quite funny. I went to one of the dealers that had some and figure out putting these on very carefully and delicately because these nice little M stickers need to go the right way. Imagine if I got it wrong and just stuck one upside down. But basically these go on here, each wheel. And I'm going to try and get them straight because otherwise I'm going to make a complete mess of this and hopefully do it first go. Oh dear. The pressure is real because if it's not lined up, it's going to be messy. It slides in. Good. Those look much better than the ones that were on it before. So let me whiz around and get all of those on. Those are all done. And I mentioned earlier that I'd tell you what we had done with Kali because we did code something on this car. You might remember in the early days when you would turn it on, it was pinging up a light warning and we had no idea what it was because every light that we tested is doing exactly what it should. And no system was revealing any fault codes for it. There was just a warning. Well, with Kali, we were actually able to code that out. So now when I turn it on, it doesn't chime and ping at me. So that's pretty helpful. We've got the AC. We still need to resolve the temperature sensor for that small little thing and a whole load of upgrades still to come. So I think we will wrap it up for there. There's a lot more still to go with this. We've done the diff, we've done the wheels, we've done the infotainment, but we're going to do a few more performance mods, visual mods, interior mods, and more. A big thanks again to Si and the whole team over at Warps for everything they have done with this car to make it look unique, make it look personalised, make it look epic. And a big thanks as always to you guys for your support. That's it for this time though, and I'll see you again very soon. Cheers!