I have a set of 13in. wheels on my car, that were painted before I got them...they are red and black, but underneath is gold...look similar to panasports, I want to pain them flat black, or gunmetal, but I'm having trouble getting paint to stick, any tips on removing old paint, and basically what's the BEST way to do it? For the least amount of money(I only paid 80 bux for these)

 

use aircraft stripper to take it down to bare metal. click the link in my sig and see if that helps you.

 

make sure you have them clean of grease, scrub um down with a scotch-brite pad and paint them with krylon

 

that stuff works

 

stripe>sand>clean>detail>primer>pai nt>clearcoat

 

is it possible to do all this with the tires still on the wheels? These are my only set of wheels too...

 

yes..get a bunch of index cards around the rim. and paint away.

 

Unfortunately, I cannot answer your specific question, at least there are no methods I want to state to take the paint off. Too worried about having a chemical actually corrode and weaken the composition of the metal.

Those of you interested in painting wheels try this thread I held on to:

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=316500

 

Well I've started and DAMN, that aircraft paint stipper works AWESOME!! I'm going to paint them gunmetal so I'll post pics when I get them done...Thanks everyone for your help!


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