Well some1 painted some wheels i have.... But they did a crappy job. I can tell they didnt sand it or anything, just straight up spray. How would i go about removing the paint without ruining the oem finish underneath? Thanks.

 

No matter what you do, the original machined finish will never be perfect (outside of re-machining the surface of the wheel). So, in short, there isn't a way to remove the paint without damaging the underlying surface.

 

^^^^^^ agreed toyo

But you can try


Aircraft paint remover or
Getting them brad blasted

 

Ok cool, ill give it a try. I wanna at least keep the silver. Like imma polish em up and stuff. I just wanted to know if it would completely rip off the oem paint also.

 

oe paint is gonna be a pain your best bet would be to sand them till there pretty smooth and primer and paint them


whats wheels your working with?

 

Well i wanna keep the OE paint, i just wanna clean em up without damaging it TOO much with the thinner. They are the oem DB2 wheels. Have em on my teg and the old owner decided to spray em bronze, but did a shitty job. And anyways, dnt like painted oem wheels. So im just trying to get the bronze off, and clean up the oem paint IF its revivable

 

yeah try that air craft paint remover its some harsh stuff but oe finish is even harder so it might comeout how you want

 

Thanks for the info man, appreciate it.

 

I used 2 cans of aircraft stripper to take the OEM finish off of my wheels. I let it soak for about 15 min and it took 3 applications.

 

Thats what im trying NOT to do...

 

seriously, just re-do them

 

Just re spray them , pretty sure rims will look funny after u remove the paint

 

just fully polish them they will look nice

 

+1 for aircraft stripper. and repaint them. I always use the spray on kind.

 

Im going with your idea