Painting Rims

[Guest]

What would be the best method used to re paint a set of newly sand blasted alloy rims?

Powder coated or spray painted?

Thanks.

[bootyman]

powder coat is probably better as spary paint tends to chip quiet easily and also fade with time

[Guest]

Ok then thanks for your expert advice. This will be the option I'll take. I don't know much about the powder coating process. Could someone fill me in?

Thanks.

[mrLEE30]

powder coating is an electrostatic powder which is sprayed to your rim which is aslo elelectrostaticly charged (but opposite polarity) thus the powder is attracted to the rim and gives a smoother and more lasting finish as bootyman says. My painted rims which i think you saw on the shnitzer thread were painted a year ago and still look good provided they are painted professionally, i.e they will last as long as your bodywork paint, they must however be treated like body work and that means polish etc. powder coating is also a bit more expensisve so if you get a choice and not much price difference betyween powder and a por spray job go for the powder.

mr lee

[Turbo-Brown]

Don't forget that once the powder's applied, the whole component goes into an oven to have the powder melted. Typically the powder is polyester which melts nicely and flows to make a homogenius plastic bag around the component.

It's great at keeping the elements out, untill it becomes damaged at which point it becomes great at keeping the elements in

[dale325i]

got mine done about 15 months ago, got them sprayed, even thou they have got chips on them they still look the nuts and have lasted a lot longer than i expected, thou iam going to get a brand new set of the same wheels and have them done again the same, if your not as stupid as me with money you could always get a company like chip-away to come round to sort the paint chips on your wheels

[Adammcf]

Dale - from that pic your car looks alot like the one in Practical Performance Car magazine this month in the drifting report. Is it you?

[dale325i]

thanks adam, your right it is my car, i didnt know it was in there until fozzymonster (mark] told me about it at the lakeside meet, but he thought it was in total bmw, so ive been trying to get a back issue, thanks, now i know what mag iam looking for, do you know what month was on the mag. cheers

[dale325i]

cheers Adam, just ordered a copy

[Adammcf]

Just incase you missed - February issue 10.
There are some nice pics of it in there. Nice car btw.
Have you modded it much for the drifting?

[dale325i]

HELL NO, thats my pride and joy, not a driffting car, i will never go driffting in my car again, iam going to buy a cheap 325 and strip it out for driffting

[Adammcf]

Cool. Im hoping to build a track car in the next couple of years. I was thinking about a Nova with a 2.0 16v Redtop engine or a 205/106 GTi but thinking about it, a stripped 325i would be far more fun!

[dale325i]

shhhhhhhhhhhhh your not aloud to talk about nova`s on here but good idea