lloydee

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Looking to spray my standard hawkeye wheels a gloss black.

No idea how to go about it but I'm just thinking

1. Wash wheels
2. Primer
3. Apply gloss paint
4. Apply lacquer

Is this the correct procedure?

Anything else I need to pick up from halfrauds?

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I used some wire wool after the wash stage, so the primer has some edge to bond to

Abx

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Never done myself but agree that you would need to do something to the wheel surface to help the paint stick, wire wool or even better a good old buffing with wet and dry should do the trick.

mje_wrx

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use a etch primer also, better adhesion and rust prevention, a 320 grade disc is perfect for keying surface. leave no marks underneath, in work we use a da and 320 disc and then a red scotch pad to ket hard areas, etch prime, 1000 wet and dry on primed area, panel wipe wheel clean, blow off any dust and panel wipe again, then apply colour light coats for better coverage and finally laquer, one sticky coating, flash off for 10 mins and apply 2nd heavier coat, again, leave 10 mins to flah off and flow and 3rd coat if needed on any dry areas depending on coverage from 1st 2 coats. bake or air dry for 24 hrs, any dust flat out with 1500 disc and interface pad, then a fine cut polish and wax to finish, waxing helps cleaning, always good to apply wax every time car washed, stops dirt sticking on alloy.

lloydee

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Cheers for the replies guys.

How will I go about to spraying the centre caps as they're plastic? will the paint even stick on them?

mje_wrx

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yeh, scotch them, plastic primer, re scotch and paint, job done

lloydee

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Cheers MJE

wrx9181

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i personally wet n dry papr sand myn down ... makes them really smooth and washes them too as do it wet if they are alloys they dont rust anyway so prime in grey and then spray in black obviously let them dry inbetween coats