clere
10-19-2007, 12:58 PM
First of all, make sure its at like about 65 degrees in your garage or outside or wherever while doing this!!!
Well you get your 4 wheels off, and cleaned (I actually cleaned them while they were still on the car haha, and I used some all purpose cleaner and steel wool. After you get them all cleaned, you can take the option of sanding them with VERY fine sandpaper, but I did not, and as you can see they still turned out very well.
Then you let them dry. I just set them in front of a space heater for a tiny bit and let them all dry, and then taped off the wheels, which I don't have a picture of, but looks similar to this
http://www.peterbeers.net/vw_roadtrip/GTI/GTI_Mods/Black_Wheels/images/I_MG_5458.jpg
Note that it is easier to tape them off if you just rip and use a bunch of smaller pieces of tape.
After it was taped off we went and sprayed some adhesive promoter on the wheels.
Shortly after the adhesive promoter, we put on some dunpont graphite wheel paint that you can get at autozone, checker, any auto retailer.
You want to put it on thin and lightly, and just go over it a few times side to side and up and down. Don't put it on too thick all at once obvioslly.
Right after the graphite paint, before it was even dry, we sprayed on a clear coat. You don't have to be as cautious with how thick you put clearcoat on as opposed to the wheel paint itself.
After the clearcoat you go and watch yourself some TV, grab a bite to eat, take a shower, duce, or whatever you would do in your normal day activies while they dry. I think we waited an hour or so, but that could also be because there was a good movie on TV lol.
After that, went out and sprayed them with another clearcoat, let them sit for about 10 minutes, and ripped the tape off and put them back on :)
Never done a write up before, so I just threw this one together and hope it helps someone else.
Well you get your 4 wheels off, and cleaned (I actually cleaned them while they were still on the car haha, and I used some all purpose cleaner and steel wool. After you get them all cleaned, you can take the option of sanding them with VERY fine sandpaper, but I did not, and as you can see they still turned out very well.
Then you let them dry. I just set them in front of a space heater for a tiny bit and let them all dry, and then taped off the wheels, which I don't have a picture of, but looks similar to this
http://www.peterbeers.net/vw_roadtrip/GTI/GTI_Mods/Black_Wheels/images/I_MG_5458.jpg
Note that it is easier to tape them off if you just rip and use a bunch of smaller pieces of tape.
After it was taped off we went and sprayed some adhesive promoter on the wheels.
Shortly after the adhesive promoter, we put on some dunpont graphite wheel paint that you can get at autozone, checker, any auto retailer.
You want to put it on thin and lightly, and just go over it a few times side to side and up and down. Don't put it on too thick all at once obvioslly.
Right after the graphite paint, before it was even dry, we sprayed on a clear coat. You don't have to be as cautious with how thick you put clearcoat on as opposed to the wheel paint itself.
After the clearcoat you go and watch yourself some TV, grab a bite to eat, take a shower, duce, or whatever you would do in your normal day activies while they dry. I think we waited an hour or so, but that could also be because there was a good movie on TV lol.
After that, went out and sprayed them with another clearcoat, let them sit for about 10 minutes, and ripped the tape off and put them back on :)
Never done a write up before, so I just threw this one together and hope it helps someone else.