Painting rims write-up!

[714banshee380]

Hey everyone I thought I'd do a quick write-up on how I painted my Douglas rims. Well as all of you know powdercoating isn't cheap so I decided to spray paint em. I went to my local autoparts store and picked up some wet 300 grit sandpaper, 1 can of Dupli-color aluminum sandable primer, 2 cans of Dupli-color flatblack acrylic enamel, and some acetone. I ebelieve everything cost me around 20.00$ (I already had some acetone laying around the house)

 

First of all i got my palm sander and starting to sand the heck out of my rims. I also did the hard to get areas by hand. Sanding is the key to painting. If you go and ask any painter they will tell you with the proper prep work you get the best results. Anyways once you have spent time on sanding the rims I cleaned them up with some acetone. Next I didn't feel like having my tires dismounted then remounted again after i was done so I got some masking tape and some paper and taped off my tires. Once everything was ready to go I started spraying. I did 2 coats of primer waiting 20 minutes before each recoat (the can says it dries in ten minutes). Then I sprayed the black on. I sprayed a total of 3-5 coats I don't remember how much exactly but atleast do three. Also make sure you wait atleast an hour and a half to two hours before recoating. And that's pretty much it.

 

If you do not give time for the paint to stick you will end up doing it again as the paint will just peel off.

Hope this helps anyone who doesn't have the money to get them powdercoated

 

,Steven

 

 

 

 

The first two pics are of them primered, and the next three pics are when they are all done.

 

Edited April 7, 2008 by 714banshee380

[Dinner]

Looks real good man :thumbsup:

 

I painted my rims myself too last fall and they are still holding up!

 

Good job, get some pics of them mounted on the shee :beer:

[AJC]

they came out great..

let us know how they hold on when out riding.. ive been debating wheather to paint my rims or not.

[njbanshee]

lets see the bike too.

[714banshee380]

i will hopefully have pics up in a couple of weeks. Their are going to be put on the bike in my sig. I think it will look good/

[SoCalinIt]

They look great man! Good work!

[01Banshee350]

I painted some of my stock gold wheels black a while ago. Mine lasted for a little bit but they started chipping and flaking a little now. I didnt do near as much prep work as you though so yours will probably hold up better.

[colby72olds]

looks good!

[714banshee380]

I painted some of my stock gold wheels black a while ago. Mine lasted for a little bit but they started chipping and flaking a little now. I didnt do near as much prep work as you though so yours will probably hold up better.

 

 

 

and if that ever happens... just throw on another coat.... that's what i like about it. We all know 4$ spray paint is not gonna hold up like powdercoating obviously but this could be a temporary choice for those wanting to get some pc'd beadlocks or something or it can be a permanent choice

[714banshee380]

I promised i would... here's how they turned out.

 

 

[bansheefreak]

looks good.. here is some i did.. but i let air out of tires and just stuck paper between the bead and tire... pinched it in there worked great...

[714banshee380]

looks good.. here is some i did.. but i let air out of tires and just stuck paper between the bead and tire... pinched it in there worked great...

 

 

wow those look great. i didn't put a clear coaton mine because i think it matched my plastics better

[bansheefreak]

i just used cheap gloss black paint .. i can touch them up any time.. i'll post up a pic what thy look like after a weekend in the sand...

[nick t]

you guys inspired me i wanna try to do mine. first off what if i dont have a palm sander or any sander? second off do i still sand if they are just plain silver rims? what would that achieve

[bansheefreak]

i didnt sand mine they was shiny .. thought paint would turn out better.. just make sure it real clean of dirt ,oil etc.. but keep in mind you may have to touch up paint it at some point.. knowing that didnt bother me to paint them with out sanding..