A little sandpaper, primer and paint!

[gdawg'05a4]

Refinished my stock 17s today (Winter set up). Decided to go with a Gunmetal gray color instead of Silver. The wheels came out very nice IMO. Took about 5 hours total from sanding down the wheels to painting.

Materials used:

Simple Green
320 Grit sandpaper
Tack Cloth
Dupli-Color prep wipe
Dupli-Color Primer (FP102)
Dupli-Color Wheel Coating (HP102) - Graphite

I know a few of you guys have done this with the Dupli-Color wheel paint.

After sanding:



Primer:



2 coats:





Close Up:



All four wheels:

[eclimax13]

looks really good...do me a favor and weigh one of those for me

[HTA A4]

Duuuudde! Sweeet!

[tamaneri]

i think that looks really good.

I've got the same wheels... Although I curbed one of em pretty good. What do you think the chances are that I could sand em out and make em look sexy?

[A4natomical]

I did that not too long ago and was VERY impressed at how sandpaper/dremel and new paint can make a "used" wheel look brand spankin new.

nice job

now just shine up those tires.

[b5s4tt]

looks real fresh, brand new. next time use 400 after then wetsand with 600 for extra smooth

[gdawg'05a4]

looks really good...do me a favor and weigh one of those for me

I'll try and see what I can do.

[A4natomical]

i think that looks really good.

I've got the same wheels... Although I curbed one of em pretty good. What do you think the chances are that I could sand em out and make em look sexy?

very easy. sanding works miracles. if they are really deep, just used a sanding bit on a dremel and smooth it out. works like a charm.

[tamaneri]

Sweet. Going to definitely have to do this!!!

Thanks guys!!!

[gdawg'05a4]

i think that looks really good.

I've got the same wheels... Although I curbed one of em pretty good. What do you think the chances are that I could sand em out and make em look sexy?

Thanks! I had a few imperfections in my wheels. The sanding took care of most of them. The primer will fill them in. You can also use some bondo to fill in deep gouges and sand it down then paint.

You can't notice 99% of the random scratches, pits, etc I had on the wheels.

[gdawg'05a4]

I did that not too long ago and was VERY impressed at how sandpaper/dremel and new paint can make a "used" wheel look brand spankin new.

nice job

now just shine up those tires.

Thanks! A little elbow grease really gets these wheels shining again!

Yeah, didn't have time to clean up the tires

[ggar015]

pretty good job!

the newspaper is not in english lol

[gdawg'05a4]

looks real fresh, brand new. next time use 400 after then wetsand with 600 for extra smooth

Thanks. Are you talking about 400 after 320 then wetsand with 600 after painting? Sorry, I'm tired and not sure if I'm comprehending correctly

[gdawg'05a4]

pretty good job!

the newspaper is not in english lol

Thanks! And you're right, not English

[A4natomical]

Thanks. Are you talking about 400 after 320 then wetsand with 600 after painting? Sorry, I'm tired and not sure if I'm comprehending correctly

yea, im also interested in making them smooth. right now it has a little roughness too it, but doesnt bother me.

[gdawg'05a4]

yea, im also interested in making them smooth. right now it has a little roughness too it, but doesnt bother me.

I wiped down the wheels after the paint dried with the tack cloth. It took a lot of the roughness away and smoothed it out a bit compared to before. Very slight roughness now.

But any other way to get them even smoother would be good to know.

[tamaneri]

Think I'm gonna do this but with black paint. I have a black car, maybe I'll continue the murdered out theme :)

[jon102034050]

looks nicely done, lets see em on.

[pOrKcHoP07]

Nice job. Post up some pics with it installed

[PCYC]

i love it!

[gdawg'05a4]

Thanks guys! Will probably put the wheels on today so I'll get some pics up tonight.

[dirtybrd]

If done correctly, spray cans do a nice job. You seem to have the touch!

[gdawg'05a4]

Thanks Dirtybrd!

[Murph]

I've redone a few sets now including polished lips on my 540i Style 42's. For painting if you can put the rim on a lazy susan or other rotational item it really helps when painting. I slowly spin the rim while keeping a steady spray from the rattle can. This helps put a very even coat on. I also clear coat with Wurth.

Also, the 600 grit is before painting...

[dirtybrd]

Correct, the lazy susan will help. I've painted wheels using a tire balancer before, mainly steelies.

[yung turbo]

i wonder how a white b6 would look with the rims painted white.

[HeymyAudi]

That looks GREAT!

[martini]

I wiped down the wheels after the paint dried with the tack cloth. It took a lot of the roughness away and smoothed it out a bit compared to before. Very slight roughness now.

But any other way to get them even smoother would be good to know.

wetsand with 1000 grit sand paper then polish them with your favorite compound

[VAG_4ever]

yum. i like them. i should think about doing this =)

[gdawg'05a4]

Thanks guys! Put them on this morning and the paint smoothed out overnight so it's very much like a OE finish now.

[fcamargo6thave]

Looks hott Bro... U should have taken the before pics..... So we can see the change but I can imagine it... My rims are really f*cked up I wish they looked like urs... I have alot of scratches and curb rub

[gdawg'05a4]

Thanks! I have some before pics:







Pics of them on the car today:

http://audizine.com/forum/showthread...10#post3024010

[fcamargo6thave]

wow looks nice

Ok just imagine the first pic but double the scratches on all 4 rims <<< thats how my rims are lol I will do this next weekend hopefully.. I wanted to buy new rims but for what when I can make a project out of it and save money lol

[gdawg'05a4]

Haha. Yeah, definitely a project worth doing to get your wheels looking new or at the very least much better than what it was before for $30.

[acbaseball186]

i like it alot...i still wanna see what those look like polished on a car lol good work though

[ewytt]

did you put a couple coats of clear on this?

[gdawg'05a4]

Nope, no clear.

[Mark]

painted my avus wheels the same graphite last week and put dunlop winter sport 3d's on them. the paint matches the unpainted lowers really well. probably going to paint my summer rims the same color this winter. 3 coats of graphite and 1 light clear coat.

[audikid66]

in the process of doing mine now already sanded and primed... deciding what color to paint them ilike that graphite color that very much so might be my choice9don't mean to copy you but it looks great)

[gdawg'05a4]

Nice!

Nah, go for it! I love the wheels on my car now, makes the car much darker looking overall.