DIY: Painting Your Wheels...

[mikinoz]

That is a great transformation - top effort!

[rayray086]

Thanks guys. More to come

[dylan8]

Digging up a old thread... Im looking at buying thestu wheels and painting them, my dad is saying it wont stick for long unless i get them anodized... Can you guys that have sprayed your wheels give me some feed back on how they were 1 year on pleeeease.
Thanks in advance!

[Golf Houso]

Digging up a old thread... Im looking at buying thestu wheels and painting them, my dad is saying it wont stick for long unless i get them anodized... Can you guys that have sprayed your wheels give me some feed back on how they were 1 year on pleeeease.
Thanks in advance!

Perfect, the old wheels on my GL stayed on fine for an entire year +, so as long as you do your prep properly and don't go to cheap on the amount of paint/primer you use you really shouldn't have a problem with a $60 backyard jobbie

[dylan8]

Perfect, the old wheels on my GL stayed on fine for an entire year +, so as long as you do your prep properly and don't go to cheap on the amount of paint/primer you use you really shouldn't have a problem with a $60 backyard jobbie

Thanks. $60 sounds good to me! Wheres a good place to get paint? just auto-barn or something? cant say iv ever looked...

[Mrk_Mickey]

Autobarn, Supersheet, repco, any of those stores would have it.

$60 is the price for a spraycan respray. Reason mine cost more mate is cos I'm going through a proper respray with a spraygun and lots of little detailed bits.

Good spraycan jobs are hardly different though..

[dylan8]

Autobarn, Supersheet, repco, any of those stores would have it.

$60 is the price for a spraycan respray. Reason mine cost more mate is cos I'm going through a proper respray with a spraygun and lots of little detailed bits.

Good spraycan jobs are hardly different though..

Yeah i did see notice that, well i still have the a8s and the 15" stockies so these would just be a bit of fun to start with. So cheap is good

[Mrk_Mickey]

Haha yeah that's the way

[Manaz]

Digging up a old thread... Im looking at buying thestu wheels and painting them, my dad is saying it wont stick for long unless i get them anodized... Can you guys that have sprayed your wheels give me some feed back on how they were 1 year on pleeeease.
Thanks in advance!

It's paint on metal - just like on all the panels of your car. No reason for it to wear off unless you run them into gutters, etc. Your wheels come painted from the factory - as long as you prep them well, there's no reason for you to have the paint come off.

Anodising is a chemical process done to aluminium and some of its alloys, it changes the outer layer of the metal chemically. Hard anodising is probably what he's thinking of - it gives you a pretty strong coating, but you can still scratch it off.

[POLARBEAR666]

HERE IT IS GUYS... THE ABSOLUTE BEST WAY TO PAINT A RIM. PERIOD, WITH AN EXTRA FULL STOP AFTER THAT.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-ukb9Hjppk&NR=1

Hint Spinning the rim on a turntable while holding the can full open and then moving up and down at different angles to get best result. Think of a lathe and how that works.