clear coat damage on wheel

[raaizin]

I have a 2007 A6 with the 18 inch wheels which are painted silver from factory. I have 2 wheels which I damaged the clearcoat with a power washer duh!!. The silver paint is not damaged at all. Can I sand and reclear the wheel. what clear would you recomend and what grit sandpaper would you use.

[shaunls1]

It would help a lot if you could post a pic of the damage

[jono20]

Wow... must be one hell of a pressure washer to tear paint off a factory wheel!

[David Fermani]

Can you do it? Yes. Can you do it right? Probably not. You`d be doing your A6 an injustice by doing a DIY repair on it. These are specialty repairs that require special processes to duplicate factory quality results.

[autoobsessed]

If you are comfortable with doing the repair, Wurth carries a silver paint and clear to match German wheels. We carry it.

[Accumulator]

raaizin- Welcome to Autopia! Sorry to hear your wheels got messed up.



Some sorta-random thoughts follow:



- Pressure washing Audi wheels shouldn`t mess up the clear :think:



- Much as I like Wurth stuff, others here have been very critical of how their wheel paint holds up. No negative first-hand experience here though.



-I`ve never been able to do decent wheel refinishing. Gee, it just never looks as good (IRL) as all those "check out my work!" posts on the internet ;) And it`s not like I`m all thumbs...



-My Audi dealer has refinished silver-painted Audi wheels to 100% perfection (and coming from me that`s quite a statement!), so skilled people, using the right stuff, *can* do this job right.



-Just IMO, but I`m with David Fermani on this, a nearly-new Audi deserves to have the work done properly even if it does cost a little bit.