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[:: blade ::]

Hi all, just after atempting a refurb on my own wheels I thought I would do a guide for people to have a go at it themselfs. (1st guide so hope it is ok)

So here goes

Tools needed:

a variety of wet and dry sand paper, ranging from 80gritt to 1200gritt
primer
choise of wheel colour
laquer
filler (i used Davids Isopon P38)
thinners

To start off with I got my wheel and got the tyre taken off, and I had this


I used 80gritt wet and dry sandpaper, and sanded the whole wheel down, inside and out. I then used some thinners and cleaned the whole wheel to get all the dirt and dust off the rim, I got he filler and placed it onto the kurbed mark on the rim, let it set and then sand with 300gritt wet paper, do this a few times to get all the imperfections out of the filler and to get the lines of the rim right. You then need to wet sand the whole wheel with anything above 300gritt, and clean off with thinners again to make sure the wheel is clean.
Now its time for some primer, dry your wheel a few light coats of primer, giving 15mins between each coat, and leave to dry, I left mine to dry overnight, then use your 1200gritt sand paper and wet sand the whole wheel untill really smooth.



Now all that is done, make sure your wheel is clean, give it a few few coats of colour, leaving it 15mins between coats, make sure you cover all the wheel in equal layers, to get something like this



Give it a slight rub down with 1200gritt wet, clean off and five it one last coat of colour, and then leave to dry over night.
Then it is time for the laquer, take you time with this as I manged to mess one wheel up by over spraying and causing runs, so spray very thin layers, untill you are happy with the outcome, i have done 2 coats, but i will do another and 2 coats on the inside of the wheel.

You should finally end up with something like this,


Do the same to the rest of the wheels and then you are done to fit them to your car and show them off

cheers

:: blade ::

[taylor5788]

fooookin amazing!!! nice simple and different!
how did you manage to get the wheel cap lookin so new without sanding away the Ford logo or flooding it with paint if you kno what i mean. gotta go in the guides section though thanks!

[taylor5788]

btw what paint did you use and how long did it take in total?

[mike_w]

mate is a great guide im gonna save link for future, have u put tyres on them yet? was the filler alright or did it crack

[:: blade ::]

nope tyres arnt on yet, and im waiting for the weekend to get more laquer so i can do the inner part of the wheel, then i can get the tyres on, the filler was fine, not cracked or anything, but i will have to say when it gets on the road, they havnt really took that long, about a few days, but spread over a long period (about 2weeks)
with the center cap, i only sanded it with 1200gritt to get the shine off, adn then gave it a few thin coats of paint on, and its turned out like that

Also on the last coat of colour put the center caps in so they will end up the same colour as the wheel and the paint is halfords own paint

:: blade ::

[gixxer]

done a good job there

tempted to do mine now just bought exact same wheels for my xr2i
but not sure what colour would suit colour of car - dark blue

[taylor5788]

original silver but more shiney or black IMO

[Chris 2i]

Nice guide and great results. Although why leave the valves in?

[:: blade ::]

i couldnt take em out, so fout might aswell leave em in

[:: blade ::]

is this guide not worthy to go into the guides forum

[jayrs]

looking good mate, pm a mod and get them to shift it to guides mate

[E4Fiesta]

Nice job Blade, what colour is that its fooking sexy!!!???

[:: blade ::]

its gun metal grey, or as it says on the halfords tin for ford colours 'graphite grey' and cheers

[jonboisescort]

Great guide
goin to do my wheels black on my car

[jayrs]

nooooooooooooooooooooo not black

[festafoff]

think i might do this, just untill i saved money for new alloys. looks rlly good mate.

thanks chris

[Lex_Mk4]

Got any pics of them on the car? I've gotta refurb some mondy alloys soon, so this article is a great find! =]

PS: Lush colour!