pics of my freshly powdered stock wheels

[96Cruiser]

I was going to get a set of wheels as spare and have them powdercoated but I hit something on the interstate [never did see what] and blew the sidewall out of a perfectly good tire, so decided to upgrade to 315/75/16 MTR's and just have my one and only set powdered while I was away working out of town......my powder guy sent me these pics, he's clear powdering them now on top of the silver

, and my tires are at the tire shop paid for just waiting on me to get back in town and collect everything and mount them up. I think they turned out well........

 

[ERG80]

They look really good.

 

[Mrtwooooo]

Looks like mine. Mine is cosmic grey with no clear

 

[danadog]

Those look pretty sharp.

 

[jfz80]

Yep. Those look really good

 

[Golgo13]

 

[blkprj80]

Looks great. I like how they hang them with a bent eyebolt through the valve stem hole.
The guy that did mine hung them with a piece of wire wrapped around the drop center inside. Not visible with a tire on, so no big deal.

I paid $40 a wheel for mine. How much are they in your neck of the woods?

 

[Kernal]

To the OP, looks good, what brand/color of silver did the shop use?

I've been planning to do this also using Prismatic powders, they have dozens of different silver tints to choose from, may go with Pacific Silver and clear coat. For comparison my local shop charges ~$100 per wheel for the whole process, bead blasting, color, then clear coat.

 

[96Cruiser]

thanks guys, they turned out just as I hoped, especially since the wheels were real rough at 18 years +
I paid about $65 each for the silver and UV stable clear on top of the silver, he also did my factory hitch in black, and in December he did my ARB[it was 11 years old and getting crusty on the bottom edge] in black

 

[96Cruiser]

To the OP, looks good, what brand/color of silver did the shop use?

I've been planning to do this also using Prismatic powders, they have dozens of different silver tints to choose from, may go with Pacific Silver and clear coat. For comparison my local shop charges ~$100 per wheel for the whole process, bead blasting, color, then clear coat.

im not sure on the brand, I gave him a couple pics from the web, of late model GM alloy wheels, and said I wanted something similar, he responded while I was working in NY, with a pic of a wheel that he thought was closest and I approved it. he posted a pic on facebook and called it porsche silver, I can ask him if you want to know exactly. and yea, this was full strip/blast and color and clear[UV stable] he stressed that the clear would keep the color looking good for a while, especially the lighter silver colors he always uses the UV stable clears to protect.
I had all five wheels done, plus the tow hitch and the rear tow eyes, and the tube bar that was bolted to crossmember[it was crappy, so I unbolted it while I removed the hitch], and as I stated previously the ARB, and the front tow eyes etc.

 

[Kernal]

It does looks like Prismatic's Porsche Silver, a light/bright silver.

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Your wheels look great!

My local PC shop just started carrying chrome powder. After seeing how great my valve cover turned out, I'm going to have a set of wheels done.

 

[dogfishlake]

Watch out for chrome powders as far as durability goes, they look great but are very susceptible to tarnish and they can't be shined back up. You should typically clear powder all chrome coating which will protect it, but it does knock the brightness down slightly. Also, most clears are mechanically bonded to the base color by under curing the base first. This can't be as easily done with chromes as they need full cure before topcoat, making them slightly less durable than other colors or silvers with clear. That being said, we've done hundreds of parts and wheels in chrome/clear. Sorry to be long winded but I gotta give back when I can for all the help I get here

 

[96Cruiser]

yea, that valve cover looks great, I did mine earlier this year because it was leaking, but it was before I found the powder guy, so I wrinkle blacked mine.
turned out well, and now no more oil leaks haha.
my powder guy also has been showing a chrome powder he does for small parts but he says the same as dogfishlake, that its not durable enough for wheels, at least if you want the chrome look to last.

 

[93yotasr5]

Those look better than new!

 

[96Cruiser]

kernel wanted a pic of the wheels after the clear powder was done, I have one he sent me...I just got in from out of town, he delivered them to my brother, they go to the tire shop first thing in the morning, and get shod with the 315 MTR's [ I cant wait ].....the stack pic shows that he did the entire rim vs just the fronts, should be durable

 

[96Cruiser]

Looks like mine. Mine is cosmic grey with no clear

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how are yours holding up to the elements?, my guy says for the silvers he always uses the clear top coat for durability.

 

[Kernal]

Those look really nice. Do you know how the wheels were prepped before coating, chemically stripped and/or bead blasted maybe? Any sort of metal treatment before coating?

 

[96Cruiser]

yea they turned out really good, exactly what I had hoped for, as I didn't want to go thru the expense of getting them refinished like factory, don't get me wrong, I loved the factory finish, however, I cant see 1000+ to make them like oem only to crap them up again.
my roads here are horrible, so this was the best solution to nice them up.

ended up costing me 525$ for 5 rims and a factory hitch in black along with the two rear tow eyes that bolt up with the hitch, and the tubular bar the spare rests against that bolts to the rear crossmember

he does fab work as well, probably gonna have him make me a rear bumper with a tire carrier, that's what I really need next......

Last week, while I was still in NYC working , he told me he had stripped them, and still had to blast them [not sure of the media he used though] on Saturday before he could finish them for me on sunday.
the weather took a bad turn and last Saturday night he msg'd me saying it had been too windy to blast them outside and he couldn't exhaust all the dust inside, so I didn't get them until this weekend, didnt really matter, I was flying out on Monday and it snowed about 14" here in town, so I couldn't have gotten anything done anyways.
I guess he stripped any anodizing from them? or old clearcoat maybe, I never thought to ask, but I can.

 

[Kernal]

I've been told that sometimes if you don't get all the stripper off it can cause the powder coat to form bubbles if any chemical is trapped in the aluminum and gases come out of the metal as the wheels are heated. One shop said they preheat the wheels after washing but before coating to allow any gases to come out of the aluminum first. No experience myself however.