Wheels?
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Wheels?
i recently put my factory steel wheels back on my truck
it has a few places from rocks that have chips in the paint and rust
i really dont want to take my tires off to have them sand blasted
so my questions are
1) how should i strip the paint (what should i use)
2) what paint and primer
3) what paint would work best for re-pin striping the beauty rings
that is not my wheel but its what mine look like
it has a few places from rocks that have chips in the paint and rust
i really dont want to take my tires off to have them sand blasted
so my questions are
1) how should i strip the paint (what should i use)
2) what paint and primer
3) what paint would work best for re-pin striping the beauty rings
that is not my wheel but its what mine look like
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i wet sanded my rims sprayed them with dupli color high performance wheel coating from auto zone, oriley , napa etc then just sprayed them with the color and cleared um they came out really nice hope that helps out a lil bit
hasn't anyone else paints wheels here or maybe have some general painting advice
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When I painted rims at my neighbors shop with the tires on here is what I did. 1st mark location of wheel weights on tires. Remove the weights. I used a small handheld sand blasting rig (kinda looked like a garden sprayer) and blasted rust spots. Feather sanded the rest of the rim. I used a piece of sheet metal about 3" wide to form a loop around the rim ontop of the tire. This masked off the tire real easy. Clean rim with a wax/grease remover (Like PPG 320) The used good acrylic primer. Then we just spray bombed them. Reinstall weights after paint dries. As for the trim ring, I just used some straight enamel (or lightly thinned it) and used an artist brush to apply the paint.
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