I'm curious about this,
cuz i'm thinking about doing some wheel painting.

How well does powdercoat work as an undercoat?

Basically i'm going to get some new wheels, and I love the shape of em,
but i'm not a fan of the color. So, can how well would this work:

Sand down the powdercoat
not completely off, but just get rid of the gloss on the surface
take em to an autopaint shop and just have them respray em for me?

 

you will have to prep them either way, so might as well just use a normal primer instead of powder coat

 

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well, i'm not saying that i'd have them powdercoated, and then paint over that..

I mean that they come powdercoated already
I just dont like the color

 

If you take it to a shop they might spray primer over the powder coat and then the color, depending on the color change. If the color is kinda close they might not use a primer, but if it is like a whit to black change the would most likely use a primer or sealer.

 

yeah, it's like a light gunmetal, to silver..
so actually pretty close

 

I just scuffed my wheels and painted them with "High performance wheel coating" from checker or pep boys, and it worked just fine.

 

yeah that's a possibility,
but i'm kinda picky and don't want them to come out shitty..

How many cans did it take u to do 4 wheels btw?
and how was the spray?

just sprayed my intake manifold and man it sucked, that rattle can worked like a freakin firehose

 

Well, I ahve received a lot of compliments on them, and the wheel coating works really well in my opinion. Obviously not as durable as powdercoat, but stay off the curbs and it isn't an issue.

I used the bronze and it came out a little bit lighter than my friends 5zign Fn10r-c (or whatever the expletive they are called) but other than that you couldn't really tell a difference, they had a nice amount of metal flake in them as well.

As far as spraying them goes, it has the "fan tip" nozzle so it comes out like a spray gun would, not like a round spray. I have rattle canned a couple cars, and probably a hundred parts, so I have practice, so it wasn't hard for me, but it isn't rocket science.

I would buy 3 cans to be safe since you are doing a color change and will probably want to do the backsides of the spokes and the inner part of the wheel, and probably get 2 or 3 cans of clear. It will probably be a $50 project all said and done, but if you take your time, it can come out really nice.

 

how about you just take them down to the shop and let them do the all of the work, im sure they know what they are doing so just leave it up to them, just make sure you tell them exactly what you want!

 

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