Hey to you all, as many of you may know, my car is currently not runnin due to warranty issues with fixin my tranny. Well, while it is not movin, I figured I'd do some major work to it. Many of you all also know about the drastic changes to the exterior of the car...can you say 2 door??? But anyway. I was wanting to know how hard it is to paint my stock rims to a flat black color. My car is currently yellow, but it will be candy orange w/ white pearl, and I think black rims would look tight on both colors. Any input on paintin the rims would help alot....thanks guys...

 

i feel that powdercoating would better serve you as paint will chip easily.

If you do paint, sand first then apply a primer to help the bonding, next get a flat black, high heat paint (like for barbeques and such).

 

i second that

 

I've been thinking about powder coating my wheels in gunmetal. I just have a feeling it would be cheaper to buy new wheels.

 

powdercoating weakens your rims

 

pardon my ignorance, but how exactly does it weaken rims??

 

^Powder coating includes lots of heat which can damage the metal our rims are made out of.

Go to the Ralliart forum and search for paiting rims. Someone there used some kind of a spray paint specialy designed for rims. I think it was duplicolor for rims or something like that.

 

Sand down to metal, lay down a primer (flat black), use Duplicolor wheel paint (Pepboys). It's available in about 6-7 colors. I'm doing the exact same thing to 2 of my rims that were damaged during an accident.

 

what rims are you painting? alloy or those steel pos's? if their alloy clean it and sand damadged areas, and paint, but if their those steel things, just save up and go buy some new rims, or get some old oz's from someone who bought new rims. and powdercoating does f up rims. the heat treatment to bond the powdercoat to the metal heats it to the point of weakening the metal. it would blow to pay a couple hundred for a powdercoat and then have the spokes break when you go over train tracks or something. just dont forget both sides of the rims, it would suck to have someone get a long look at them and see the otherside of them.

 

they actually make a rim paint now...

( slvoz got it )

We actually just did it to the factory oz's