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| Wheel Trims; Can they be successfully re-painted? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:38 pm (1,539 Views) | |
| ThankYouLord | Sat Sep 29, 2007 12:38 pm Post #1 |
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More than part of things
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I have bought a set of cheap wheeltrims off ebay. They are genuine and not broken but the paint finish is not great. Is there a special plastics paint available that will make a decent job of refinishing these trims in as close to silver factory looking as possible? Help always appreciated. Phil. |
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| RobertE | Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:26 pm Post #2 |
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Serial victim...
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Oh! for a search function. There are some specialist flexible paints available, like the ones ppl use to paint their grilles, but i cannot remeber the name. It's a US import, apparently. Neil EVO will know... |
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| ThankYouLord | Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:32 pm Post #3 |
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More than part of things
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Thanks Robert, i'll ask him. |
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| Sev | Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:09 am Post #4 |
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I am a big Twat
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you do mean factory gold, don't ya? :lol: |
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| julian | Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:32 am Post #5 |
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There are some plastic primers that you can use made by Plasticote, however all you really need is a decent primer, then sprey with a tinny colour coded or just silver. To be honest on my old 2.0 wheel trims I used standard Grey cellouse primer and sprayed them silver, lasted years, the only paint that came off was due to kerbing, not flaking. Also My grille was sprayed 4 months ago with a satin Black paint which I had left over from another project. It's not flaked or even chipped, even though it has occasionally exceeded 100mph :lol: on the track of course :lol: This was also a plasticote product, didn't prime the grille either. Sometimes depending on the type of plastic, you can sprey a finish coat straight on to plastic, as the plastic its'self acts as a primer. I even jet wash my grille with no paint flaking off. All I did was prep it with a soft light abrasive pad used for washing up, degrease it thoroughly and apply paint. Just rub down your trims with 400 wet and dry, degrease really well as they may have been wax polished previously, one decent coat of primer, then finish with 2 to 3 coats of colour. Only problem with wheel trims is that they're so easy to kerb as they protrude further than the tyre wall in most cases. so not much point in going over the top with painting them. |
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| BROCKY | Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:36 am Post #6 |
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Also My grille was sprayed 4 months ago with a satin Black paint which I had left over from another project. It's not flaked or even chipped, even though it has occasionally exceeded 100mph on the track of course This was also a plasticote product, didn't prime the grille either. I can vouch for the plasticote product, did my grill satin black and no signs of chipping/flaking. Its all down to the prep , take you time make sure all oil/grease is removed otherwise the finish will have "fish eyes" (a small hole appears where the paint reacts with the grease). |
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| ThankYouLord | Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:46 pm Post #7 |
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More than part of things
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They don't stick out as much when you fit 205/55 tyres onto a 6 inch rim Seriously though, thanks guys. All the above duly noted and agreed with. I knew it couldn't be impossible - i used to do this and more to motorbikes in younger years and yes, i have heard of but never really used 'Plasticote'. I have now found a specific plastics primer in a rattle can so halfway there now. I am going to try to match the silver they are with a new rattle can in that colour and rejoice at the cheapest set of wheels i ever had. The wheels were FREE, off a scrap car and that include all the wheelbolts for the steel wheels. The tyres i have already and the trims cost 30 quid. 10 quid on paint and 40 quid for a new valve, fitting and balance job makes 80 pounds. I am going back to Alloys again but next year when i have saved enough money to buy the ones i want. For winter (Although it won't get loads of use through the bad weather now i have more cars than i can drive) i am running these steel wheels and smiling to myself at how cheap they were. |
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| 190ECrystal | Mon May 31, 2010 6:50 pm Post #8 |
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Just as an aside on repainting the wheel trims. A 190E regularly parked in my road had repainted the whole of the trim including the chrome centre star - it completely spoils the effect. I have followed the helpful advice on this site and used Plastikote metallic but blanked out the centre circle so that I would not spray over the chrome star. As I had hoped you cannot tell that the centre has not been repainted, particularly if you polish up the chrome, because the centre never hits the kerb or gets damaged. |
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