How to Paint Rims - Stripe Color Change

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These rims where dropped off with red stripes originally and the entire wheels were sanded and painted. This how to paint your rims video doesn't properly illustrate the prep work that was done prior to painting.

The wheels where completely scuffed, cleaned and the black was masked off before painting the rims. The clear coat applied at the end provides the shine and durability of the wheels.

This customer had brought me a set of rims from his Mazda 6 that had a red strip originally but he wanted it painted yellow to match the rest of his car. After about 10hrs of work the rims had been painted successfully. I think the rims look pretty sweet, they kinda remind me of the bumblebee man transformer. This is how to paint rims with or with the stripe, base and clear like any other job works great.

The rims were first scuffed with a sanding paste and scotch pad to prep them for the paint to adhere. Next the line was taped up and the color was applied to the rims. The first coat was a white ground coat to help my yellow cover better since it is transparent. I used a Devilbiss Dagr airbrush to apply the basecoat and a Devilbiss gti was used for clearcoat.

After basecoat the tape was removed and I removed any overspray off the rims and remasked them. The tire was masked off of the rim and the valve stem was taped up also. Two coats of BASF clearcoat was applied and allowed to dry. The basecoat used here was RM ONYX HD Waterborne paint.

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[PewpewFighter]

Where is this shop located at? I took a look at the website and there's no location and the information is just spread around everywhere.

[jimmo4life]

@PewpewFighter

It was done at fix auto ajax central, Ajax Ontario. We don't typically take on this kind of work.

[zakamooza]

what is UV protection?

[jimmo4life]

@zakamooza

Keeps the sun from fading the paint

[Smithco96]

Love to see them on the car. Send me a picture? Thanks, Great Job

[jimmo4life]

@Smithco96 theres a link in the description now

[jimmo4life]

@minboot18

thats the room i put all the people in that dislike my video's..lol

[ZachDelpino]

That screaming is a sander or buffer......you guys watch too much TV.

[seandoyle4671]

fell asleep no information could he not talk people through the process so they new what he was doing

[Ultimatemxcn]

How do you keep the paint from overspraying onto the non-masked parts?

[MsElisua]

HI I LIKE ALL YOUR VIDEOS. CAN YOU SHOW ME HOW TO CHROME RIMS WITH SPRAY CAN??? THANKX :-)

[coreyratz]

You can get this kind of stuff done from CurbRash.com. They painted a buddy of mines Dodge Charger wheels with orange inside the spokes. Looked awesome. Only charged like $300 to do all 4 wheels for all that work about a year ago. Tryin to save up to do my polished Honda wheels black on the spoke sides.

[SimplySubaruClub]

awesome, i want to do the same sort of thing to my 18" rims on my Forester,thinking white spokes an Flourescent yellow outer rim and inside wheel, but dont have use of compressor or air gun so will attempt it withspray cans... nice work

[venon1186]

respet



[mattluna09]

u know what it iz

[customnotmodded]

I might do this to my rims after I remove the chrome. Any advice? I'm planning on painting over where the chrome is after it is removed. My car is on my channel

[TopGamingKingz]

sell these to wiz khalifa