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Title: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Rmachines on 11 May 2007, 19:27

My Alloys are a bit worse for wear,  I know you can get alloys wheel spray paints, but does any one here know if they are any good?   I'm not looking for perfection but i will have to do a full respray on all four as mine are gun metal gray and cannot get a match, but i would like them a lighter silver anyway  :smiley:

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Dragon Danny on 11 May 2007, 23:20

Mate, Any Basecoat Metalic Paint will be fine for your wheels. If i was you i would do this :

1. Rub down wheels to get rid of lacquer on wheels now
2. Fill any nasty deep scratches (Easy 1 is fine)
3. Use wet & dry sand paper to rub down the edges to get rid of any kirbing maks
3. Spray 1/2 coats of aerosole AUpol Acid 8 Etch primer
4. Spray 1/2 Coats of Upol High 5 High Build Primer
5. Recoat in Polyester Basecoat Silver (reccomend 4/5 Coats)
6 Lacquer Wheels (more coats, more protected they be)
7. Once fully dry give a good Polish.

Danny

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: sharpie on 12 May 2007, 00:53

or the easy method.

1. clean wheels
2. apply hammerite

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Dragon Danny on 12 May 2007, 12:28

Hammerite!!?   :rolleyes:

nasty stuff that. Do it properly mate, or at least use a synthetic polyuretane paint if you gonna go down the cheap route!

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: mattneck(Beavis) on 12 May 2007, 13:13

he did it to steels  :grin:

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Uruk Hai on 12 May 2007, 13:32

Got to agree with Dragon Danny on this one, only thing I would add is that as with any paint work preparation is everything  :wink:

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: sharpie on 12 May 2007, 16:55

hammerite's a bloody good paint if you follow the instructions. i'm not saying that fannying about doing 10+ coats in 4 different kinds of paint won't be good, just seems a bit overkill to me.

not only have i done it to my steels, i'm painting up my estorils the same. i'll get the pics up to all you non-believers once i get my hands on a camera  :wink:

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: monzablue16v on 12 May 2007, 18:10

Get them esotorils polished up :) thats what I'm doing to mine at the moment :)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/sharemaster/11052007404.jpg)

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: giffy1988 on 13 May 2007, 14:53

im thinking of spraying my standard gti alloys gun metal grey. do u leave the tyres on??? just i dont really want to get paint on them.

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Len on 14 May 2007, 13:27

If you have a House of Colour paint supply shop near you they do a service to match your existing paint. You take a wheel to them and they will sell you an exact spray can match. Plus lacquer.

Title: Re: Alloy wheel spray paint
Post by: Dragon Danny on 15 May 2007, 18:14

House of Colour, Great Paint.. Costly tho  :sad: