Okay, so i baught these 18 inch Gunmetal wheels and was high advised to repaint them becuz the gunmetal is chipping, well my brother saw them today and offered to have them powdered black for me (he's the manager at a steel factory), I've worked there b4 and know how good the powder coat comes out on sheet metal, but how well does it work with aluminum and how does it do against chipping and stuff??..

if ne1 has Black powdered wheels i would love to see some pics!!!

thanks!!

 

some guy had some on his ss t/c on some post a lil bit ago...I bought my car from somebody else and i think they are powdercoated but not sure..you can help by telling me tho check my car domain

I think they just painted tho so yea....

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/wheels-tires-96/powdercoated-rims-157514/ here you go its for the t/c but pretty much same thread

 

oh, those are diff wheels tho bro, the ones i baught are 18inch off of a SS/SC

 

If tey are chipping you might want to have them media blasted first so it doesnt happen again

 

I sent my 18 in. ss/sc wheels to a powdertech place and they bead blasted them really nice and they are powdercoated a glossy black! And the powdercoat really looks like it will not be chipping, I don't have them on yet.

 

nice, do you have any pics of them?

 

ya I do they are not on yet the weather has been too crappy but I do have some pics of them without tires.. I will try and get them uploaded today

 

Here's a shitty pic. Don't want to give out more pictures cuz I'm gonna show them all when I submit for COTM.

You'll like the look of it.

 

lol I know u got the s/c ones I just was showing you some t/c ones

 

ya that is what mine look like and they are goin to be wrapped with Falken Ze-912s

 

The gunmetal wheels are actually powder coated, so they will have to be blasted. If you're going to run them all year I'd recommend getting an acrylic clear top coat. They should hold up much better than painted wheels though, even without clear.

 

wait, the gunmetal is peeling tho... i thought powder doesnt peel

 

okay , so here's my update... i was told i had to strip the wheels completely down to the aluminum, i've used two full cans of aircraft paint stripper, and all i've gotten off is the gumetal, there is a really thick coat of primer that i can hardly touch with the stripper... what should i do!!!???

 

okay so i've stripped the wheels as much i could with aircraft stripper... and this is as far as i can get... that stripper dont even touch the primer lol, and sand paper isnt hardly getting through it... any ideas??? =[

 

did you try paint stripper, like the gel stuff from home depot. ive used, its nasty **** and took everything off.

 

I would just take em to a body or machine shop, and have them media blasted. DIY nasty stripping chemical FTL.

 

it works, but it is some nasty stuff. will **** your world up if you are not careful

 

what do you mean?? lol

 

get some on your skin, or inhale the fumes, youll see.

(not responsible for death or related injury)

 

haha, yikes... the aircraft remover i uesd earlyer put acouple burn scars on my hands cuz i was to manly to put gloves on when my GF told me to... but then i was the one running inside yaulping when my hands started to burn up lolol fun times

 

yep sounds like the stuff!

 

well it didnt eat through the primer tho, so i hope the stuff ur talking about will eat the dam primer... what its called??

 

here are my wheels powdercoated in orange and gunmetal gray

 

Kind of a dumb question but where can you get stuff powder coated and how much do they normally charge?

 

i'm not sure, my brother is a manager at a machineing shop and he's just going to throw them on the line w/ the other stuff... idk where else you could go