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marcbowden wrote:It looks good.
What is HTH?
Sub_Culture wrote:marcbowden wrote:Andy, did you spray or hand paint the hammerite on?
Sprayed, mate.
Andy
Depends what other colour coding you have really. I think yellow works well with BRG but you may need something else as well as the wheels to pull it all together in my opinion.(like the TE37 gold) matt black would be nice to or gun metal silver would look better than bright.
I also have a slight thing about not getting all the cosmetics perfect and then get on a track .. something about tempting fate :}marc in blackpool wrote:ci_newman wrote:If you're taking the wheels back to the metal before painting, I would recommend using an acid-etch primer before spraying with a normal primer
As mentioned above though, it is pretty easy to do.
Acid Etch
Not many people have a spare set of wheels to use in the interim!
acid etch is cured in alot less time than that
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also do you just put the stuff on or do you need to sand through the paint/lacquer first? Steve-o, what do you use to fill curb marks if they're too deep to sand out? I have one on one of my wheels and its too deep for sanding... At the moment, the whole wheel is polished alloy, with no lacquer or anything, what would be the best way to go about this? Here's a pic of the wheel for reference...
Leeroy wrote:Great thread! Sorry to hijack, hopefully this might help others too!
Also, I'm thinking of painting the inner area of the spokes dark anthracite, but keeping the front surface and lip as is.
(Not polished lip) then we just use filler but if its a Polished lip we use a wheel machine, looks a little bit like the machines that change tyres - 
/ grinder arm instead. You put the wheel on (take it apart if its a split rim), lock it on, press the pedal to spin it and then grind it down till the marks gone. Because the wheel is spinning the whole lip stays even. Once marks are gone you spin the wheel again and by hand hold 180 on it, 320, 400, 500, 800, 1500 and 2000. Then change the grinding disc for a polishing disc and put metal polish on and polish it up. The longer you hold the 800, 1500, 2000 on it the better the finish.
but at a guess what I would do at the bodyshop I work at is take wheel apart, mask the areas of the spokes off you dont want painted to protect them from the sanding disc then 400 the inside of the spokes. take masking tape off, de grease them, mask up again and then paint them how I said before. but thats just a guess Rear ones will come out good but the front might not be as good. looks like someone has shot / sand blasted them at some point making them all bitty. Going to paint them in a Mirror black (VERY shinny black) and might dust some silver on them or a light coat of white, wonder what that would be like.../ sanding them down.. it chips the wheels to bits. Although generally, from 2-3 metres away, the wheels look ok-ish now, hand-painted black, where I did not prep the wheels properly, periodically paint is coming off on the rim. A lot of the paint I put on the nuts came straight off, but strangely, just on one wheel. So, I would definitely avoid doing what I did! I wish I had just - is it about £60 a wheel min.? - forked out for a nice graphite grey refurb in the first place 
