hi, i was just wondering because i have some LS mesh that are spray painted black, and i was wondering is there anything i can buy that can take the spray paint off the rims and bring it back to being stock clean to silver without damaging the rims itself while doing it in the process

 

Aircraft paint remover.

Get a gallon can.

 

Before you go out stripping them with aircraft remover ....

do they have tires on them?

 

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do they have tires on them?</TD></TR></TABLE>

Good point, the acid in the paint remover will destroy your tires.

 

i've seen my friend use aircraft remover and that **** took the gloss off his gsr blades and it was pointless for him to continue after seeing what it did to his rims? blades have that glossyness to them and it stripped that off after using aircraft remover trying to take the black spray paint off his blades

 

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Most things that are corrosive enough to remove cured paint will also remove the clearcoat from factory wheels.

As a safe test, you could try brake/carb cleaner. If no results, move up to paint thinner. Then lacquer thinner. Even then, I believe lacquer thinner will eat the clearcoat. The coating on the wheels is more fragile than people give it credit for.

 

If you want the gloss look back just lightly sand them and clearcoat and polish.



Didn't anyone take art class in highschool? What happened to the worlds creativity?

 

If you have a little bit of money to fix the wheels, you can have them sandblasted (should cost you about $15-20 cash under the table) and then buy some various grits of sand paper and hand polish them. Then, get them microcleared at a powdercoating place for about $25-30 a wheel.

The entire process should cost you less than $200.

 

Most people don't want to spend $$ replenishing what they already had if using some other product won't damage their wheels/tires.

 

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Duh?

I was giving him a solution for if stripping the paint also stripped off the original clearcoat.

 

I was replying to EK Forever (2nd post), not u. sry

 

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u think 1000 grit would work fine..?? nothing less then 800 id assume..

 

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u think 1000 grit would work fine..?? nothing less then 800 id assume..</TD></TR></TABLE>

If you want the polished look, take the paint off with 400, move up to 600, then 1000, then 2000, then 2500. After that, use an aluminum polish, and then a billet polish.

 

thanks for all the post