Has anyone tried painting thier own wheels with good results or is it better to just get someone who does it all the time to do them?? I'm after doing them flourescent green so there doesn't really seem to be many paints available for wheels in this colour.

 

I've painted my own, prep is the big thing. Make sure they're sanded down and have a really good finish then its several layers of primer, several colour and 2 or 3 coats of laqure.

I kinda cheated on mine and did them with some old tyres still on, the chipped slightly when i had the new tyres fitted but it was alot better than i was expecting with a couple of cans of halfords spray and some 'liberated' sandpaper from work

 

Where are you located Steve?
I'd be happy to do them mate

 

The man above does a good job

 

It depends how much time and patience you have, Steve. If you have plenty of both it can be satisfying to do it yourself. If not though, it's best left to someone else

 

Thanks for the offer but I'm miles from you as I live in Newcastle. Need to get the sorted before 31st of this month as I'm at Silverstone then

 

I'm probably one of the most impatient people around and work always has me ridiculously busy.

 

I painted my wheels green using standard spray paint and even though I thought that I'd fully prepped them before spraying, they lasted about 3 weeks before they started chipping. In the end I had them powdercoated by The Wheel Specialist and, even after nearly a year, they still look fantastic.

 

look on ebay for kawaski green mate ,

i did mine 12 mths ago and the laguar is starting to come off from stone chips

 

http://www.paints4u.com will make up any colour you want, or you could use their Fluorescent Green

However;
Get someone else to do it them and spend that spare time with your feet up, supping a beer instead.
Any decent painter should be able to make up any colour you want, but if not supply the paint yourself from the above (or similar... other paint products are available and all that).

 

That looks ideal, how many tins do you need for the four wheels? I'm not too worried about stone chipping as its for my track wheels so they won't see that much use?

 

I painted a set about 10 years ago using 'plasticote' rattle tins. The removal of the old paint/powdercoat was a miserable job costing me a fortune in sandpaper and plasters .

The finish was okay using a couple of coats of primer and a top coat, did chip from time to time but I just touched it in and it kept them going for a while.

I took a gamble and did it the wrong way around. I had new tyres fitted before painting more by accident really, it was a spur of the moment decision to tart the wheels up since the new rubber was going to be around for a while. I managed to cut a circular thin cardboard mask that tucked into the tyre bead once it was let down for the painting step, then just pumped it back up after seemed to work okay.

One tip the plasticote 'chrome' paint doesn't work! It was new at the time so I thought I would try it and it looked mank, it served as a basecoat for matt silver oversprayed in desparation!

 

I got my wheels powder coated black. Was really impressed by be careful who you get it done with because if its not done right it can crack. This happened to a friend of mine and he ended up having to get them redone.

 

Do them yourself,take your time,use good quality paint and you wont go far wrong.Powdercoating looks good until you have new tyres fitted and the tyre fitters pull the powder coating off with the old weights!!!,never again for me

 

Had mine done in gold powdercoat and im a painter/bodyworker lol.far too much work doing it by hand.the guys who did mine stripped tyres,soft sand blast old paint down,primed,powdercoated,refit new tyres with Touch-less tyre fitter(no chips !)chrome valves and delivered em back too ! All for £180. No brainer mate.