Re: Painting Rims
Hey their Jdubz13,
Its kind of hard to tell from the pic's but I am going to take a guess here and say that polished lip on your wheels runs all the way across the width of your wheel, right? If that is the case, then I am afraid to do it right, you may be in it for more money than just going out and buying new wheels already done.
The polished lip needs to be etched in order for any kind of paint to stick to it. To get the etched surface on a polished alloy surface, your going to have to either Media Blast it, or Sand Blast it, and since the lip runs right up against the black face, it is going to be almost impossible to not have to go ahead and blast the entire wheel and start from scratch, which is really not that big of deal.
Once the tires are dismounted from the wheels, you should be able to get them sandblasted, shoot a good undercoating, and re-powder coated all black for around $60.00 per wheel. Once you have an all black powder coated wheel, then you can prep the surface, mask off the face, and shoot either an extremely durable, and resilient Poly-urethane, or an acrylic enamel base paint, and finish up with an acrylic urethane clear for your white lip. Either paint should be shot in a spray booth, and then baked to get a nice hard finish, and should run you about $100.00 a piece in material and labor.
So when its all said and done, you should be looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $160 - $180 per wheel to get the look your going for out of your current wheels, which is a little costly, but the best way I can think of to achieve the final result.
Anyways, you go easy, and I will catch ya later.
Candyman
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