Painting wheels
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I've just bought some Minilites and I'd like to paint them black.
They are brand new with lots of clearcoat.

What do I need before I paint them? Rub them down, matte them down?

Anyone?

I would of thought just rub them over with wet and dry to give the new paint a key to stick to.

Tony

i stripped mine back to bare metal then painted em. I used a mild paint stripper to do the job, then finished off with fine wet and dry to make sure i had all the chav / chemical off the metal mine seem to have worked ok

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I'd prefer leaving the primer on... ??

erm then as per Mokle buddy, just make sure you give em a good key with summit like 600 grit then clean the surface with alcohol / similar to get rid of any grease etc etc

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I'd do the same and just key them and possibly dust some primer on before the black, just incase the black doesnt take to the keyed laquer.

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V, What sort of paint have you got for them?

Rick

key them up with scotchbrite pads, a medium grade pad of fine grade will be ok, then a wipe with panal wipe, or thinners, if you wipe them with thinners leave them 10 mins before a quick dust with primer then paint them, if painting them with cans use red-oxide primer for black paint, seems to get a better deeper black with that, or white primer for silver/mettalics, grey for normal colours red/blue/green etc

when painted & dry, use an ultra fine scotchbrite pad on them all over, then laquer them, dust laquer on in thin layers, dont be tempted by a all over wet look or it'll run! tin dust coats every 60secs, 3 cotes should be enough, leave for two weeks then t-cut& polish them

& take the tyres off for a proper job if not let the air out & break the bead on the face side of the rimto mask them "right"

or the quick getto method, wash them then paint them matt black & it makes the tyre look good too!

2pck paint is ace on rims or anything else, i know the health & saftey representatives say you should'nt use it but it wont kill ya if ya paint them outside, 2pac gos off quick too which is a bonus

if not 2pack then rattle cans & laquer, plasticote laquer is decent

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Wheelpaint in a can.. I've used it previously on some wheels I beadblasted to bare aluminium, then etch primed. Seemed to work fine.

Just a good key up then, grey scotch/ 800 wet or dry.

Make sure its a nice warm dry place.

Rick