Painting a rim...

Jigg · Post by **Jigg** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:57 am

So i'm buying one of John's GMC ZR5's to have a matching (sorta) spare. I have Chevy ZR5's on my truck, so i was thinking of just taping off the face of the rim and shooting it with some Rustoleum Black Night Metallic (almost exactly the same as spectra grey).

It's just going to sit on the tire carrier, so i don't think the paint will take too much abuse. Is there a different kind of paint I should use, or some special process I should do? I'm not looking to send it out to have it professionally redone, as it's just a spare. I just want it to match.

GeorgesBlazah · Post by **GeorgesBlazah** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:34 am

Duplicolor has that wheel paint thats supposed to work pretty good. They have a graphite color, but I dont know how close ti matches the flare color.

Jigg · Post by **Jigg** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:45 am

I'll have to check that out george... duplicolor tends to have a much cleaner application, so i'm all over that.

I really don't care if it matches exactly, I just want it to look close enough from 10ft.

F9K9 · Post by **F9K9** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:43 am

You'll need to rough up the surface and clean the area you are with a cleaner (duplicolor has that too) to remove all wax and oils.

Reed

Post by **Walt** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:43 am

You could go with some bedliner material.

B-Man · Post by **B-Man** » Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:18 am

i am going to be in the same boat here in a little while and i was just thinking about getting it powdercoated to match the other 4. The place back home that powdercoats says they can do any color and texture so I am going to go that route first and see how it goes.