Cleaned, stripped, and resprayed my stock wheels (pics)
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Cleaned, stripped, and resprayed my stock wheels (pics)
I've been meaning to refinish my wheel sfor ahiel since they had all sorts of corrosion, rust, and dirt caked on them. After many generous coats of carb cleaner, degreaser, and finally soem muriatic acid, I was able to get them paintable.
Two coats of Rustoleum primer, then a few coats of metal silver, and finished off with 3 coats of shiny laquer. The finish should be durable enough, and to purchase the supplies needed to do all 4 it was ~$25.
I didn't sand the surface down too well, so it's still a bit scuffed in places, but it still looks 100x better then before. Well worth the 4 hours it took. I still ahve the passenger side to do this weekend and I'll be set.
Here's how they looked before (very pitted, and the original finish was ruined):
Here's the end result. The laquer adds a nice wet look to it. The tires look so sloppy because I soaked them with tire treatment to make up for all the chemicals that washed over them today. Now that the treatment has dried, they look brand new.
Because I'm a bastard about doing things properly, I sprayed the back as well, even though you can't see it through the front side really:
I also had the chance to clean up my calipers and paint in the raised mazda on my calipers black, and finish up some small quarter panel fiberglass repair.
Two coats of Rustoleum primer, then a few coats of metal silver, and finished off with 3 coats of shiny laquer. The finish should be durable enough, and to purchase the supplies needed to do all 4 it was ~$25.
I didn't sand the surface down too well, so it's still a bit scuffed in places, but it still looks 100x better then before. Well worth the 4 hours it took. I still ahve the passenger side to do this weekend and I'll be set.
Here's how they looked before (very pitted, and the original finish was ruined):
Here's the end result. The laquer adds a nice wet look to it. The tires look so sloppy because I soaked them with tire treatment to make up for all the chemicals that washed over them today. Now that the treatment has dried, they look brand new.
Because I'm a bastard about doing things properly, I sprayed the back as well, even though you can't see it through the front side really:
I also had the chance to clean up my calipers and paint in the raised mazda on my calipers black, and finish up some small quarter panel fiberglass repair.
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eh, which tire shop did you get your tires balanced last? our wheels require MC weights, not AW
or were they the TS's.... BAH, i forgot now.
looks good though!
or were they the TS's.... BAH, i forgot now.
looks good though!
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Originally Posted by Rxmfn7
Not bad.. One a side not, that muriatic acid is nasty stuff. I used it once to clean out an old gas tank, and man...never again.
As far as paint goes, I used rustoleum primers, the metallic rustoleum series (silver, they make alot of other nice metalics including cool hammered finishes), and then lots of rustoleum specialty laquer (can be foudn with the other stuff for the same price).