Wheel Centre Painting

[andyjstone 6]

I'm getting my Speedlines re-furbed but they don't do the plastic centres, what's the best way of stripping and painting these, any tricks?

 

Andy

[Rom 0]

There pretty hard to get perfect i think, depending on the quality of them. If there all flakey etc, there hard to sand inside the emblem.

 

New ones are about £4-5 i think, i bought a set last month.

[timb1046 1]

i gave mine a quick sand (use a bit of sand paper folded over somthing thin to get inside the emblem and try not to rip through it, may be better with emery?) then just spray with a rattle cans, (prime, spray, laq) see if the place doing your wheels will give you some paint in a can? or the paint code.

[andyjstone 6]

i gave mine a quick sand (use a bit of sand paper folded over somthing thin to get inside the emblem and try not to rip through it, may be better with emery?) then just spray with a rattle cans, (prime, spray, laq) see if the place doing your wheels will give you some paint in a can? or the paint code.

 

You just reminded me that I started them and then forgot all about them!

 

That's what I was planning, most of the old paint cracked off anyway, so they should look pretty good.

[chocolate_o_brian 0]

Have a looksy for my wheel refurb thread in the projects section

[djinuk 2]

just a thought, when i did mine i struggled to sand them and the finish after painting this was obvious, however why not grab some thinners and just leave them in it..

[lagonda 42]

Brake fluid is a good paint stripper....& it doesn't attack plastic. Soaking in thinner could dissolve them or leave them gooey!

[CaptainP 2]

Nitromors - Automotive & a paint brush. I used this on mine and it removed all the odd flakes of paint (even on the intricate places around the Lion). If you're having your wheels painted somewhere it would be worth dropping the certain caps off to them so that they'll match your wheel colour.

[ALEX 98 1 Cars]

You can get new ones, they pop up on ebay all the time for about £20

I had to paint mine though to match the goodwood syle finish.

It took me a lazy sunny morning roughing them up with grade 800 wet 'n' Dry! and giving them 3 coats of Metalic paint about 10 mins between each coat and then 2 coats of laquer about 2 hours after.

[matty_gti 20]

I got a set for £17 from peugeot the other week and when I got my wheels fully refurb'd they did the centres as well.