Painting, polishing, repairing wheels

[Digitalwave]

primer?

Just use whatever. A good sandable/filler primer will help the final finish look a lot smoother.

[nando]

use primer if you don't want it to flake off (there are 2 coats of primer on my wheels). duplicolor is probably more than enough..

[Dave]

Did you decide to stick with gold? What paint?

[nickmp0wer]

i just oredered some wurth gold and clear. But i think i should have ordered some of the wurth primer too.

[Digitalwave]

i just oredered some wurth gold and clear. But i think i should have ordered some of the wurth primer too.

Any primer would work, just get some from a paint supply store.

[nickmp0wer]

well the guy at the media blast place said that certain primers can react with certain paints and cause a bad reaction. I guess i will just take the paint there and have someone help me

would just an auto parts store have the paint?

[Dave]

i just oredered some wurth gold and clear. But i think i should have ordered some of the wurth primer too.

Where did you find the gold in stock???

[M42Technik]

A good tutorial on all of that...

http://www.turbobricks.com/mods.php?content=art0030

Awesome how to here. Hope this helps in some way or another. It also shows steps on polishing and what techniques and products are best to use. I will be using the tutorial when the time comes to fix my wheels...

[nickmp0wer]

i just oredered some wurth gold and clear. But i think i should have ordered some of the wurth primer too.

Where did you find the gold in stock???

http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?form_prod_id=309_3157&action=product

[Dave]

i just oredered some wurth gold and clear. But i think i should have ordered some of the wurth primer too.

Where did you find the gold in stock???

http://www.hrpworld.com/index.cfm?fo...action=product

Thanks. They were out last time I checked.

[nickmp0wer]

A good tutorial on all of that...

http://www.turbobricks.com/mods.php?content=art0030

Awesome how to here. Hope this helps in some way or another. It also shows steps on polishing and what techniques and products are best to use. I will be using the tutorial when the time comes to fix my wheels...

that site is good thanks. I still am trying to figure out how im going to mask it though. its not just a right angle i need to mask along, the lip goes horizontal then curves up a little bit. I've heard of spraying windex or other chemicals (anyone know of any) to apply stickers so you can move them around. I wonder if that would work with maksing tape. I might try some of that liquid too.

[Dave]

make sure you post pics of the gold after you spray them. I need to see what the Wurth looks like. Thanks!

[nickmp0wer]

im hoping for a very bright gold, not a dark shade

[nickmp0wer]

here is after some polishing. I havent used that Meguiar's metal polish stuff, but i guess i might get some when i go to get primer. There are still some imperfections in some of the wheels that look like dents from areas that are lower then others because i had grind down gouges and scrapes. I would have thought after many hours of sanding they would have been even but no.

Has anyone tried that liquid masking stuff? i think i might try and use that around the edge.

here is is

before

[Dave]

polishing looks good!

The gold is a lot lighter than stock, or is that just the lighting in the pic?