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I did mine the lazy way...I didn't strip my paint...I just used scuff board and scratched the F out of the wheels....seems to do the job as well....However, I do have my eyelash in one wheel....freakin eyelashes oh and 2 bugs in the other. I saw them land simeltaniously as I was spraying the wheel...it was too late...i covered them in a coat of clearcoat ....

Moral of my story...do this in a garage with no bugs and make sure your eyelashes don't get on the wheel lol

I don't think you can use the paint stripper since your wheels are polished...HOWEVER, I think you can use my method...I used scuff board and scratched the whole wheel with it to make it a little ruff so the paint would stick to it. I think that would work in your case and probabyl save you a lot of time as well

 

how much did this process run you? had you ever attempted this before?

 

I didn't use paint stripper either. Instead I'm sanding off the gun metal finish with 80 sand paper and a palm sander, then 120, then 320, then 400 grit. I'm only going down to the actual metal where the gun metal finish chipped off. I'm just feathering the edges and leaving the original primer coat, just scuffing it up a bit.

Also, here's a suggestion. After every coat of primer, wet sand with 800 grit paper. After every coat (except the last coat unless needed) of finish paint, sand with 1000 or greater grit sand paper. I'm sanding with 1500 just to be safe. This not only allows the next coat to stick a little better, it also gets rid of any over spray or dust or anything of the sort that might have settled into the previous coat. Nice write up though! I've refered to it numerous times in the past two days. If not for this write up, I would be using the enamel paint instead of lacquer paint right now... So thanks lol

 

awesome

 

heres mine... sorta similar but not completely..

car at the beginning of the day


rims stripped off the car and washed with dawn soap


taped off the parts i wanted to stay the same (didnt strip off the original paint)


taped off the tires too (optional if you use flat paint like i did)


scuffed up the paint down to the primer


first coat of flat black duplicolor paint


after 3 coats of paint


3 coats of clear (looks like it will be glossy but comes out flat when it dries)


finished rims


on the car

 

I have wheels that were painted like this and would like to get the paint off without ruining them. Any suggestions?

 

i think your gonna have to bite the bullet and strip them to paint them how they used to be... imo

 

How exactly are the stock SS/SC wheels painted?

 

i dont know the name exactly but theyre like a gunmetal grey color