My Future Rims!
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If you want a real nice quality avoid temporary plastidip and just paint them with automotive paint.
Goggle automotive paint supplier, and purchase primer and paint. You will want 1k primer, and 2k/single paint. You more likely will need to look through a color chip and you can match it up to your original wheel color. Then they can custom make you any color and they will install it into an aerosol compressed can.
Take the wheels off, remove the center caps. Use a metal scraper or razor blade to break off that bubbling. Cut a small bit of 80 grit sandpaper, sand the edges of where it was bubbling and try to feather the edges. If the bubble is super deep and too time consuming, you can use bond to fill in the void, and just sand that flat. Then follow with 120 grit, and fully sand all the wheels with 220, then 320 grit.
Buy some playing cards and wedge each card in between the tire and the rim this will act as a shield to prevent over spray when you paint. You can also use tape or plastic to cover the rest of the tire. Then spray your 1k primer, as per the instructions, and let that fully cure about an hour or two. Inspect the primer you spray make sure it is flat and smooth, if it is not, grab some 600 grit sand paper and sand smooth. Next wipe clean the wheels and spray your basecoat/clearcoat mixture can lay a not so heavy first coat, and let that flash off per the cans requirements. The 2nd coat spray it a bit heavier, this coat the paint should lay out smoothly.
Goggle automotive paint supplier, and purchase primer and paint. You will want 1k primer, and 2k/single paint. You more likely will need to look through a color chip and you can match it up to your original wheel color. Then they can custom make you any color and they will install it into an aerosol compressed can.
Take the wheels off, remove the center caps. Use a metal scraper or razor blade to break off that bubbling. Cut a small bit of 80 grit sandpaper, sand the edges of where it was bubbling and try to feather the edges. If the bubble is super deep and too time consuming, you can use bond to fill in the void, and just sand that flat. Then follow with 120 grit, and fully sand all the wheels with 220, then 320 grit.
Buy some playing cards and wedge each card in between the tire and the rim this will act as a shield to prevent over spray when you paint. You can also use tape or plastic to cover the rest of the tire. Then spray your 1k primer, as per the instructions, and let that fully cure about an hour or two. Inspect the primer you spray make sure it is flat and smooth, if it is not, grab some 600 grit sand paper and sand smooth. Next wipe clean the wheels and spray your basecoat/clearcoat mixture can lay a not so heavy first coat, and let that flash off per the cans requirements. The 2nd coat spray it a bit heavier, this coat the paint should lay out smoothly.
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