Plasti-dipping Silver Rims on Maroon Car: Yay or nay? (1 Viewer)
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I personally wouldn't. I don't think it will hold up well short term. Long term it might just be a pain and a regret.
I'm not against quality hardware store paint if the prep is done well. At least you can always scuff and touch up if needed.
I'm pretty sure plastidip becomes hard eventually. And I don't mean durable. I mean hard and flaky.
I'm not against quality hardware store paint if the prep is done well. At least you can always scuff and touch up if needed.
I'm pretty sure plastidip becomes hard eventually. And I don't mean durable. I mean hard and flaky.
Malleus
Far west of Siegen
Both my children have done this on their 80s. It peels after about six months and looks like crap, IMHO.
Wheels take too much wear and road condition impact for plastic-dip.
If you want to change their color, have them media blasted and powder coated.
If you want to change their color, have them media blasted and powder coated.
That seems steep.
That's what I thought, but I was also thinking $100 per wheel.
At $200+ per wheel your in the "just get new wheels" category.
exactly
94SRUNNER
GOLD Star
I had my wheels re-finished for $125 each a couple years ago. They turned out great.
Got a local quote for $150 a wheel (base paint and clear coat). The hyper silver wheels are finicky to replicate accurately and consistently.
If the wheels on the OPs 2007 are in decent shape, could probably sell them (more than a few people recently looking for some) and buy aftermarket black wheels at little to no extra cost.
Personally the i think the OEM silver wheels look great and wouldn't plastidip them
If the wheels on the OPs 2007 are in decent shape, could probably sell them (more than a few people recently looking for some) and buy aftermarket black wheels at little to no extra cost.
Personally the i think the OEM silver wheels look great and wouldn't plastidip them
Proper prep may be the key to plastidip. My wheels were done 5 years/100k miles ago, and they've held up fine. The truck gets a lot of hard offroad use, and there is a few places where the coating was scraped off, but I would have had the same result with paint or powdercoat. They're faded and scratched, but perfect for my use case. The nice thing for you is you can plastidip two wheels on one side and try it out. If you don't like it, a little elbow grease and they are back to silver. You do like it, and you paint the other rims.
When I bought this Tacoma the wheels were either plasti dipped or spray painted black and looked horrible. I found a place in Phoenix that would sandblast and powder coat for under $100 a wheel (I think it was $90). They came out great and they had 100s of colors to choose from. This color is "Roman Matte Bronze."
Those look great! That really modernizes that Taco. Along with the Gloss white/matte black color combo.
Thanks. That was an unique Tacoma. 2008, manual, V6, 4x4 and no rust, very rare combo. It had no power windows or power locks, no cruise control, but the most unique thing of all, that I've never seen on any other vehicle, no intermittent wipers, just high or low. On top of that, it had 5 recalls that the prior owner had never addressed. One being a new clock spring and another being new leaf springs. The leaf spring replacement alone was $1,300, which I got done totally for free from the stealership and the prior owner just ignored it. Strange
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