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How I Spent My Saturday

zorrex said:
Ok that's what I thought, but I just wanted to make sure before I ruined my wheels :crazy:. And I'm assuming you started by just sanding the blue? I'm going to be going down to bare metal :help:haha. I like the way yours turned out that's why I'm asking :cool:
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That's the prescibed method, but no, I didn't sand the blue. The paint was well adhered and only a few months old, so I just cleaned them up with wheel cleaner, then power washer degreasing solvent, then paint prep. I sanded some imperfections in the blue layer, but I did not purposely scuff the paint. We'll see how it holds up. My grandfather who helped me has been painting cars and trucks for many years with good results, and he didn't think that they needed sanding.

If you screw up, you won't be ruining your wheels. You can always do it again. I started on this project at about 2:00 PM, and had the wheels back on the car with the lug nuts loose by like 9:00 following the time line prescribed on the can including figuring out how to get all 4 corners off the ground, cleaning, taping, painting, drying, and carefully putting the wheels back on. It might have actually been earlier than that, but I got busy fixing one of my fog lights, tightening the y-pipe, and replacing the Stab-O-Shock while the second set of wheels was drying. I did them one axle at a time.
 
well if you need a shop, like I said I know of one around GR that would probably do a group rate deal, I can ask him if you want.
 
I really like the above pic and bravo for getting rid of that blue color on those rims. Looks way better and the color choice sets off the car well in my opinion. Nice work!:cool:
 
TX it was good meeting you man and i'm glad you stopped on by.

After seeing the rims in person......well...Now they look 100times better.

Hopefully in the next couple weeks you can come down again. This time stay longer than a couple hours :) That way more people can look at your car.
 
Thanks Harrry. It was good to meet you and Wes too. I believe that Bill said something about going down to help Beans next weekend, so I guess I'll be down in that neck of the woods then.
 
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