That bored I'm gonna spray my wheels

[carrmrc96]

Bored sat around the house so I got an idea and I'm going to spray my silver 182 wheels in Rover Gunmetal. Closet match I found to anthriciate

 

[LFCJosh]

might take more than just today.
might get lucky though as its sunny

got any spares in case?

 

[carrmrc96]

well im going to do two wheels at a time. two today and two tuesday. decided for ford graphite gray, wanted a slightly darker colour than anthro. dont know wether to keep the diamonds chrome or spray them arctic to match my car.

 

[Chrisjk]

Rover stone grey, with 3 or 4 coats of laquer, looks great.

 

[carrmrc96]

Its a great day for it, doing out in the sun. the primer only took 2-3 mins to be completely dry. paint itself is drying nice and quick.

 

[Chrisjk]

I'd suggest leaving the final paint coat to cure for 24 hours before applying laquer.

 

[dynamique_g]

What prep work have you done? rubbed down? you doing the inside of the wheal aswell?

 

[.GAZ.]

Matt black and satin laquer!!

 

[carrmrc96]

Yeh i rubbed the wheel down with some various grit of wet and dry, starting off with 400 making my way up to 1200 to get it smooth. I always leave it 24 hours before i laquer.

 

[BRUN]

i thought you should apply the first coat of lacquer before the last paint coat is fully dry ?

 

[carrmrc96]

Not sure, i was alway told to do it after when the finally coat is dry. Anyone know?

 

[b1lly]

just done the one i've bought to use as a spare, rover stone grey, its a bit darker than the cup wheels but i'll be doing all the others the same colour...............

 

[Chrisjk]

Not sure, i was alway told to do it after when the finally coat is dry. Anyone know?

Well i did that on my side badges ages ago and the paint kind of reacted with the laquer, its as though they ran into each other.

 

[carrmrc96]

Well i did that on my side badges ages ago and the paint kind of reacted with the laquer, its as though they ran into each other.

Thought as much, the laquer is a solvent so if the paint it slghtly damp it will just make it run again. Done two wheels nearly. just 1 more coat of laquer. surprised how quick everything is drying in the weather. normally it would take at least a whole day when its cloudy.

 

[Cooksport]

mine are done in ford graphite grey mate. If i was u, i would try and get some harder lacquer somewhere.

 

[carrmrc96]

Just finished all my wheels

 

[b1lly]

looking good, can i ask how hard has the lacquer dried with you...........put my wheel in the boot to take it down to have the tyre fitted and it got marked very easily whilst inside the boot, its been a week since i've finished it so dont understand why, and its been outside in the sun for a couple of days............. how many coats of lacquer did you do and were they thick/thin, done 3 thin coats on mine :S

edit to say i've used halfords own lacquer

 

[jesus]

Looks mint that!

@the post above, on mine I did 3 fine coats of (Halfords) laquer and left it overnight, it was fine after that.

 

[carrmrc96]

Thanks for comment, not sure wether to keep the renaultsport flag decals. Will looks better when I get it lowered and a splitter fitted.

As for the lacquer, I did about 4-5 coats. I just kept spraying them until the wheel had a nice smooth feel and finish.

 

[Jordi17]

they are nice, good job