Alloy wheel spray paint

[Rmachines]

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 

[Dragon Danny]

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

[sharpie]

or the easy method.

1. clean wheels
2. apply hammerite

[Dragon Danny]

Hammerite!!?   

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

[mattneck(Beavis)]

he did it to steels 

[Uruk Hai]

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

[sharpie]

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 

[monzablue16v]

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

[giffy1988]

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.

[Len]

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.