Repainting Rims

[conan7772]

I'm thinking of refurbishing my rims by pulling the spokes off the alloy rim.

The alloy is bare now and constantly has water spots.

I want to polish the alloy up to mirror and coat it in clear.

The spokes are faded silver paint, I want to respray them in a dark bronze.

Are spray packs ok for this ?

cheers

[vidospace]

Some pics of the rims would help

[kuma j]

if you want it to last and look good you would be better off getting them powder coated. works a treat and looks good. i think Craved coatings would be able to help you out.

[TwoCents]

Sorry to hijack the tread abit but has anyone ever tryed to use a 'flip flop' (think its called that) paint style on their rims. For eg my car being white and black, painting the rims black and white, depending what angle you look at them, they change from black to white. Think ive explained it pretty badly, but if you get what i mean good idea bad idea? I reckon it may look alright if done properly

[conan7772]

I want to respray my Sterns to a bronze spoke.

I've been told by one bloke to use acrylic, then finish with clear enamel.

Another guy says acrylic won't stand the heat and have to use enamel through and through.

What about 2 pack poly ?

If 2 pack can handle the heat on rocker covers, should be ok for wheels ?

I want to do it all myself.

cheers

[Hanaldo]

Your wheels won't get hot enough to affect the paint. I've painted many wheels with 2pac and standard acrylic, it works fine if you do a lot of layers, but still no where near as durable as powder coat. Remember that your wheels need to withstand rocks being flicked up at a hell of a rate of knots. 2pac and single pac will chip off and once the original layer is exposed, the paint will just start to peel off

[conan7772]

Your wheels won't get hot enough to affect the paint. I've painted many wheels with 2pac and standard acrylic, it works fine if you do a lot of layers, but still no where near as durable as powder coat. Remember that your wheels need to withstand rocks being flicked up at a hell of a rate of knots. 2pac and single pac will chip off and once the original layer is exposed, the paint will just start to peel off

Cheers,

Powder coating isn't available in metallics though is it ?

Also, it'll probably get up there close to a new set. $$

I've got a bit of dish so the spokes are inboard a fair bit.

Can't see any stone chips anywhere, just heavily scratched from cleaning/weathered.

They do buff up ok, but I really want bronze.

How many layers of colour and clear do you suggest?

cheers