I've only been here a few months and Im in one of the nicer areas. So no. Luckily I get to move south in two months.

Yup

Yes. I used the same process as leatherface but used Duplicolor High Performance Wheel Coating and clear coat. I used Bondo glazing and spot putty to fill in curb rash and of course I prepped the surface I repaired after. The bondo comes in a tube and is perfect for curb rash repairs. Regular Bondo requires you to mix hardeners.

I figured Bondo would sling off after a few hard pot hole hits and a few thousand miles of fast driving. My stock wheels look fine, but I like to tinker. May try some fancy colors on my long break from work this week (my birthday, yay!)

My Infiniti wheels still look like the day I refinished them after over 2,000 miles and almost a year of driving on NYC shit roads (including winter).

The adhesion promoter is the same one I just bought, it says its a clear primer too, does that count as a primer? I bought primer too and will prolly use it before anyone responds, but I have to do this one wheel at a time, since I have no extras except the doughnut.

well it does prime the sirface but if you have any light scratches i wont fill them. thats what the filler primer is for

ok I have the same primer that you used as well as the same chemical stripper. Although my final color is a different color of dupli-color, thats our only difference. Im not big on the bronze.

post pics of the process!

Im taking a bunch of pictures, but like I said I can only do one wheel at a time. While swapping on the donut. Ill be done with the first wheel in a few hours and Ill stick the pictures up.

cool beans

Ok here we go. Sorry I didnt take a picture of the wheel before hand, but its a basic Daisy.

The stuff I used, Dupli-Color Adhesion Promoter, Filler Primer, High Performance Wheel coating, The only clearcoat I saw. All of this plus the chemical stipper, less then $40.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0981.jpg



I was very impressed by the chemical stipper, these are after just a few minutes.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0964.jpg
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0965.jpg

The directions say to scrape and hose, so I did. I was alittle too eager so I stripped it twice.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0966.jpg
The insides of the wheel was nasty
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0967.jpg
Second stripping
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0968.jpg
Since I didnt have note cards, but I did have lots of news paper, I masked it off with paper and loads of masking tape. This part was a pain in the back. The Adhesion Promoter wasnt easy, its clear and dries fast. Making it hard to see where you've been
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0970.jpg
First thin coat of primer.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0971.jpg
Little more primer
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0972.jpg
Primed
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0973.jpg
First coat of my color. Lots more flake then I had assumed
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0974.jpg
Apparently I didnt take pictures of the middle coats of color. Colored
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0975.jpg
Stripper has dried, been wipped down. Noticed some flake from the inside had collected on the outside.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0977.jpg
Some primer
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0978.jpg
Looks like I skipped the middle priming, heres the final.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0979.jpg
First coat of color.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0980.jpg
Second.
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0982.jpg
Last coat of color, and clear coats, and masking removed
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0983.jpg
Center cap
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i1...5/DSCF0976.jpg

What color is that? Looks like my ranger wheels from all the brake dust collecting on them.

Looks like Duplicolor HPWC Graphite.

Cool. Now I can paint them that color and I don't have to worry about washing them ever again.

Man! I really like the look of those wheels right after srtipping !

Makes me want to strip mine and just do clear coat :idea:

Yeah they look awesome with the paint stripped. If they didnt have any rash on them they would be awesome clear coated.

I hate the cast lettering on the center of the daisy wheel. I am thinking of using j b for this.

That would prolly work as the center caps are plastic, just sand it down should be fine.

I also ordered these for center caps for a complete daisy wheel makeover...

http://www.harmancorp.com/products/p...bingplugs.aspx

Size is 2" VVRT16-1P018 Black 2 10-14 .134-.083