anyone painted their stock wheels?
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anyone painted their stock wheels?
Looking for color suggestions as I'm gonna strip my stock wheels and powdercoat them. My car is breakwater blue and I havent seen any other colors online besides silver. I'm thinking of white, gold, gloss black or bronze. Any suggestions?
Last edited by oilburner1; Jun 25, 2020 at 11:15 AM.
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I painted mine last summer. Was a HUGE pain in the butt because you HAVE TO SAND THE WHEEL.
I sanded with 100,400,800,1200
Applied primer, base coat and 2k high gloss. LOOKED AMAZING.
But if you live somewhere with snow and road salt, it will eat up your paint. A few months later I replaced my tires and brakes and unfortunately some of the paint chipped off. Brake dust changed the gloss black to a matte black.
Curb rash, rock chips.
Granted my car is my daily driver.
In my opinion I would NOT do it again. Just save up for a set of aftermaket wheels or have a professional powder coat them.
i spent $200 CAD on paint and supplies. And now a year later I have to get them redone.
Not worth it at all. UNLESS your car is NOT a daily driver and you have time to clean brake dust AS SOON AS IT BUILDS UP.
I sanded with 100,400,800,1200
Applied primer, base coat and 2k high gloss. LOOKED AMAZING.
But if you live somewhere with snow and road salt, it will eat up your paint. A few months later I replaced my tires and brakes and unfortunately some of the paint chipped off. Brake dust changed the gloss black to a matte black.
Curb rash, rock chips.
Granted my car is my daily driver.
In my opinion I would NOT do it again. Just save up for a set of aftermaket wheels or have a professional powder coat them.
i spent $200 CAD on paint and supplies. And now a year later I have to get them redone.
Not worth it at all. UNLESS your car is NOT a daily driver and you have time to clean brake dust AS SOON AS IT BUILDS UP.
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I painted mine last summer. Was a HUGE pain in the butt because you HAVE TO SAND THE WHEEL.
I sanded with 100,400,800,1200
Applied primer, base coat and 2k high gloss. LOOKED AMAZING.
But if you live somewhere with snow and road salt, it will eat up your paint. A few months later I replaced my tires and brakes and unfortunately some of the paint chipped off. Brake dust changed the gloss black to a matte black.
Curb rash, rock chips.
Granted my car is my daily driver.
In my opinion I would NOT do it again. Just save up for a set of aftermaket wheels or have a professional powder coat them.
i spent $200 CAD on paint and supplies. And now a year later I have to get them redone.
Not worth it at all. UNLESS your car is NOT a daily driver and you have time to clean brake dust AS SOON AS IT BUILDS UP.
I sanded with 100,400,800,1200
Applied primer, base coat and 2k high gloss. LOOKED AMAZING.
But if you live somewhere with snow and road salt, it will eat up your paint. A few months later I replaced my tires and brakes and unfortunately some of the paint chipped off. Brake dust changed the gloss black to a matte black.
Curb rash, rock chips.
Granted my car is my daily driver.
In my opinion I would NOT do it again. Just save up for a set of aftermaket wheels or have a professional powder coat them.
i spent $200 CAD on paint and supplies. And now a year later I have to get them redone.
Not worth it at all. UNLESS your car is NOT a daily driver and you have time to clean brake dust AS SOON AS IT BUILDS UP.
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Nice work there. I have to paint mine. They are just bubbling and chipping all over the place. I bought it CPO from the dealer 9 years ago and saw some bubbles, so had them repaint them. They started to chip a bit a few years later and now look like a disaster. Not looking forward to scrapping them down (10 spoke), but can't afford a professional these days. I really like the grey, but as the OP said, other colors would be interesting to see (my car's black on tan).
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