Alloy Wheel Spraying

[nimbus 197]

Hi Just Wanted To Know If Anyone Has Ever Had There Alloy Wheels Sprayed. The Ones I Got Now Are Silver And Want To Spray Them Black. Just Wanted Too Know If Anyone Done This And They Came Out Tidy.

 

[Fred@BTM]

spray no, powdercoat yes

 

[carrmrc96]

yeah easy to spray, did mine myself with cans from halfords. took me two full days to do all four wheels

 

[Curtis!]

Spraying them yourself is kinda rig up, but if there just cheap alloys that will get mashed then worth playing with it you fancy it.

If your car is a driveway queen and you want it in pearly condition then get them powdercoated like said above, about £25/30 quid a wheel commonly.

 

[rich-6]

spray no, powdercoat yes

IMO depends how its done ie not a rattle can job lol, Got a set of 182 cup wheels 4 years old that were painted still pretty mint bar the 2 or 3 stonechips on the rears

 

[StevieG-09]

Had the alloys I got now powdercoated at a place in forestfach, only up the road from you, and they looked amazing. But can be pricey.

 

[mestew87]

and powder coating can damage the molecular structure of the alloy, leaving it with weak spots

 

[Chris_786]

To quote a debate on another forum (performance torque)

"When the powder is applied to cure it they bake it using very powerful heaters which obv heats the coating plus the wheels and alloy has a high constitution of small air bubbles and when these heat up they will expand causing and weakness/inperfections to break.

Usually happens with multispokes ie supert's etc.

Main manufacturing powder coating is the best way as they have the correct method where as smaller places can heat it up to much etc, I have known about this for a few years after a friend took his scooby wheels to get powdercoated and a week later on the road the wheel colapsed cause was put down to the powdercoating causing a weakness on the spokes."