Paul

I was thinking about painting my gunmetal Jaos rims a nice glossy black but was wondering if powdercoating would give the same effect. I would want the rims to look like HRE black colored rims and thinking powdercoating would be worth it. Does anyone know how much that would cost. This guy goat the centers of his Blitz 03's powdercoated black here and they look good.

Good Times

talk to fourrunabilly as he got his rims painted (dont remember exactly which one) but he'd be a good source.

Cebby

Powdercoating can be various levels of gloss. For durability, powdercoating can't be beat. If the wheels are two tone like those in the pics, they will be a bear to PC.

FUZION

Just paint them yourself. It'll save you plenty of money, im planning on painting mine gunmetal.

caylorm

And, as told in another thread, if you decide to get them powder coated and they are alloys be sure to use a low temp method. It seems as though the high temps involved will degrade an alloy wheel and can cause them to break.

Mark

Cebby

Do you have a link to this thread? Powdercoating typically uses a 375-400 degree oven for a pretty short period to melt the powder. This is the first I've heard of a problem with this.

Ilovemountains

Hi, I just had the wheels on my 69 VW camper powder coated and they look GREAT and it only cost me $45 each, that included: a trip the the sand blasters, etching, powder coating in parking meter silver and clear coat. Cant be beat for the price. I had mine done at High Tech Powder Coating in Boonsboro Md, if anyone needs any contact info for those guys let me know, the turn around was less than a week and they can have color matched pait mixed to match your plastic centers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The powder coat is TOUGH, the guy that owns the shop took some ones old Corvette valve cover that he had just finished and asked me if I had a quarter, I handed it to him and he tried to gouge and scratch the surface and not a scratch, I was sold!!!!!

ctcost

Powder coating definitely is alot tougher than paint and about 5 shops have quoted me $40 per wheel...just gonna have to do it 1 at a time I guess (so I can drive in the meantime). hehehe

rimpainter.com

Paint them yourself for $20.

fourunnabilly

I will have some new pics up soon. Been changing up my runner quite a bit, and after the 37" Toyo M/T's go on tomorrow, I just have some more fender shaping and painting left.

As stated by the majority of you, powder coating your wheels will be awesome. We put 2 layers of black and 2 layers of clear on mine, and not only do they look great, they are as hard as a rock cause that stuff is so dense.

If you can get a quote for $40 a wheel as someone else mentioned, jump on it! I had to pay way way way more than that for my 22's, but that is most likely why.

Pics coming soon.

Billy

LevZeppelin

what did you do when you painted your own rims? how did it look and how durable is it?

FUZION

theres two long threads on it from 2 members

Paul

Alright Im gonna try and get some quotes around town about powdercoating. I would do it in a second for $170. Anyone know any GA Powdercoating shops?

caylorm

Here is some info I found http://my.execpc.com/~davewrit/Powder.html . The specific info for alloy wheels is closer to the bottom of the page. There is a lot of good info here on the whole powdercoating process, dispells quite a few myths about what it is and how it works.

I did find a couple other sites but can't locate them, if I do I'll post them.

Mark

Cebby

Well crap - only low temp powder for wheels it looks like. Great link!

Maybe heat cured epoxy paint - not cured as hot as powder melting temps.

SLC Punk

So if I am reading that article correctly, powdercoating (for wheels) isn't significantly stronger than paint would be? If that's the case, I may be painting my Celica's wheels soon.

Paul

anyone have any more info on this

callmej75

I used to powder coat for over a year and you can do some crazy stuff with it. Low temp powders are made to cure just as good as high temp powders and the material don't degrade or warp while in the oven. However you can back a 400 degree cure powder off to 375 and add an extra 5-10 minutes of cooking time to achieve full bake. I worked for a place here in Jax that had a good set up but that company don't even have a clue to what the hell they are doing now since I left. Nobody pays attention to detail like I did they just slop it on and bake it. anyways...don't know any places in GA but I do know of a good place here in Jax called Atlantic Powder Coating. He has a blaster and powder coating set up.

4RunnerKid

I've been wanting to get mine done for a while now... It's just that longer i wait, the more rockrash they get. I don't even know if it's worth it now. Do you guys know how powdercoating does with big scratches and such? If I can do it for $40 a wheel, I might have to go through with this...

callmej75

If you go with a dark color then you really can't tell that the scratches are there til ya get right up on it. If ya go black then you really can't tell.