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by Cecilia Mercedes Evans


While, the idea of painting your personal rims has been around a few years now, many questions pop up of how to do it and I thought I would share my personal experiences with painting my Integra stock rims. I have study up numerous examples of how you can do this, but my first time attempting was this year when I chose to refinish my winter rims. I was very please with the outcome.

Initial, what the hell do you have to paint your rims? Paint obviously :) This is where Duplicolor comes in with their wheel paint. They provide paint colors to match your style coming in white, gunmetal, classic silver and bronze too. So here are your options:

So you selected your color, bought your paint and are semi-ready. Initial, you have to sand down your rims. Why? This gives the surface area a rough texture so the paint has some thing to adhere to. Reference the write-up to polish your rims on how sanding of the rims functions. The only distinction with this really is how far you would like to go. In my case, becoming winter rims painted I chose not to go via the process of stripping the paint on the rims totally. I merely sanded down the surface with 300 grit sandpaper ensuring to make every thing sanded equally. This gives the rough surface required for the paint to adhere, and as long as your rims had no harm it should be great sufficient.

Your rims are sanded; you have your paint and now are ready. First, make sure you clean all sanding dust off the rims and make sure a completely clean surface area so the paint will stick and not flake off following your first drive out with your newly painted rims!!! Here are my rims washed and prepared to completely dry prior to painting:

My rims are masked away with newspaper and masking tape. Obviously you would like to do this which means you do not turn your tires into the color you are painting. I do not want gunmetal painted tires. Also should you appear close enough, you will know that the lip has been masked away too. So I carefully applied the masking tape on the lip to protect it from becoming painted as well. Also, you know the little thing you pump your air into, mask that off as well unless you would like that to have a colour change too




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