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Recoating rims - 2/9/2008 11:20:30 AM

An89Chevy

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my alloy rims are Coroding from the wheel wieghts, Whats the best way to take care of that? can i bead blast the rims and resurface them with clearcoat, or even clear powder coat them, anybody done this before.

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RE: Recoating rims - 2/9/2008 5:09:51 PM

fireman526

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I dont know if I would bead blast them. Are they polished or silver? You could always take some extra fine steel wool and scrub the corrosion off. If we are on the same page, I think I had the same problem once before and thats what I did. Next time you have your wheels balanced, tell them to stick the weights on the inside of the rim. If they are silver, after you get the corrosion stains off and clean em up real good, I dont think it would hurt to spray them with some sealer or clearcoat. But if they are polished or chrome dont use clearcoat.

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RE: Recoating rims - 2/13/2008 7:08:52 AM

lilblue90

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Heres the best thing to do If you want your wheels to look new again. Pretty time consuming but cheap. If you can get your wheels off all the rubber off the wheels(If you have a place and somthing else to drive) Auto strip get then down to bare aluminum clean them real good .use steel wool maybe sand paper repaint, clear or anything you want you can acctually do a set in 2-3 hours if your on them non stop.

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