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General => Cosmetic and bodywork matters => Topic started by: Vdubbster on 13 January 2009, 17:21

Title: Can I lacquer alloy? as in my center BBS caps?
Post by: Vdubbster on 13 January 2009, 17:21

Basically the BBS center caps (RC Alloys) are covered in a plastic, this eventually cracks and lets water in, this starting the whole thing to corrode!

So I removed all the plastic and re polished it up :-) :

(http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9352/32791240od8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4173/77425375ak1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

Put it back on the car and two weeks later I looks like this:

(http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/1218/121ji1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)

SO, If I polish again, can i lacquer it?

Title: Re: Can I lacquer alloy? as in my center BBS caps?
Post by: ...joe on 13 January 2009, 22:06

you can but it needs to have a key for it to stick to (half the reason the factory laquer lifts) so a polished surface isn't great to laquer over. you want to get it clear anodised realy. look in the yellow pages/google for local places that do electroplating.

Title: Re: Can I lacquer alloy? as in my center BBS caps?
Post by: jake on 15 January 2009, 00:06

agree as above or it wont stick, i tried and failed :sad:

Title: Re: Can I lacquer alloy? as in my center BBS caps?
Post by: converge on 15 January 2009, 23:44

try going over it with some 2000 grit then lacquer prob get away with it