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Alloy Wheel Reconditioning

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  • #32
    irelandspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Owen wrote: »
    No reason why not, but the money you'd pay someone to sandblast them, you'd pay for someone to recondition them for a smidgen more.

    suppose so,i'm a paint and decorator myself am just being lazy and don't fancy sanding them,I don't even like the alloys that are on it but they might look better painted up.


  • #33
    irelandspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Got them cleaned yesterday and they are painted in the middle and polised metal around the rim.The paint is blistering and the metal has bad corrosion on it that won't budge.Am thinking now about stripping the paint and giving them a good sand,etch prime the whole wheel then finish coat,will this be ok?
    There not great alloys just can't afford to replace so may as well use what came with the car.
    Photo0080.jpg


  • #34
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,319 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    They're not really going to get worse. Sand the bejaysus out of it and see what they turn out like? I'm in the middle of doing mine actually. Looking forward to the end result!


  • #35
    irelandspurs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭irelandspurs


    Think i'm just going to set fire to the f**king thing,finding more and more jobs that need doing on this car,wish i had walked away :(


  • #36
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,482 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    if they are blistering then a power sprayer (water) will take off a lot of the paint as I found out yesterday when cleaning them!
    irelandspurs wrote: »
    Got them cleaned yesterday and they are painted in the middle and polised metal around the rim.The paint is blistering and the metal has bad corrosion on it that won't budge.Am thinking now about stripping the paint and giving them a good sand,etch prime the whole wheel then finish coat,will this be ok?
    There not great alloys just can't afford to replace so may as well use what came with the car.
    Photo0080.jpg


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