wheel painting

[willis54]

Hi everyone, i have a mango westcoast with 15" gold speedline rims, I want to paint them gloss black but was wondering how you prep the wheels as the paint is peeling of the rims at the minute and will need attention before painting

[saxovtsmad]

they will need sanding down mate

[willis54]

Big job or not

[saxovtsmad]

not really mate

im doing these for the wife

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=407696

[danny-vts]

not so much a big job, its just time consuming.
iv nearly finished one 205 gti alloy (do it in my spare time)

[mcjacko1987]

just sanding to prep mate. go from a rough grade and work your way up to a smooth grade. i used cheap wilkinsons sand paper at 1st to get rid of pate. was like grade 80 or something. i finished off with halfords 1800 wet/dry grade. best tip anyone can give you is if your not 100% sure there ready then they aint. if you dont get the prep right then the paint job will be shit. take your time and just keep going until your happy

[willis54]

Great advice people, after sanding primer n paint

[danny-vts]

after sanding
spray primer and once dry , using a very very fine wet/dry sandpaper, lightly sand over the sprayed area's .
clean dust off then spray with colour and laquer

[webbo_23]

Just make sure you take your time. Will take longer thab a day to get it right. When tou get to the painting, if you can see imperfections then make sure you sand it back down until it is gone

The smallest marks will show up when you paint them

[Xplodee]

Spraying alloys is quite easy but just make sure you do the sanding well. Then its just primer, paint and laquer.

[rick_VTR]

brush on some black hammerite, covers most the rough patches ;)

[danny-vts]

brush on some black hammerite, covers most the rough patches ;)

lmao .

[willis54]

I did think about spraying hammeritq on but wudnt look good

[marinemackay2003]

Get some pics up when you are finished

[willis54]

How do I upload them?

[marinemackay2003]

Use a site like photobucket upload them to there

Then use that to link or post them on here

[DavidsVTR]

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87427&highlight=refurbing+alloy
That should help you :y:

[jfh92]

When my Raptors were sprayed gloss black I didnt leave them long enough to dry... put them on after a weekend of drying and the paint didnt settle properly so it started coming away from the wheel... only the front two tho... i think its becuasse of the heat from the brakes but not sure :/ just make sure they dry properly haha