I bought some wheels a while back which had a rough life (160k miles, caked on brake dust, etc). Then I drove them for 2 more years (20k more miles). Now it was time to fix them up.
The first bad one:
Little bit of body filler, lots of sanding. For the lip I used a plastic fork handle wrapped in sand paper for a flat surface
After paint
Zoom in. The scratch was on the diagonal left spoke. Not perfect, but neither is my car
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Wheel 2:
Curb rash is on the upper left lip of the wheel
Many applications of body filler and then sanding. I slowly built the lip back up. I again used the handle of a plastic fork wrapped in sand paper.
After paint. Again, not perfect, but much better.
All four of them after paint (Sorry, camera washed out the color. They`re a medium silver):
Products Used
- Griot`s Garage Wheel Restoration Kit
There wasn`t enough paint or primer for my tastes. I wound up buying an extra can of Duplicolor paint and a can of clear coat. I liked both Duplicolor products better (and its cheaper)! It turns out Griot`s garage discontinued my kit and I couldn`t buy extra paint anyway :doh
-Sand Paper
-Wire brush to remove paint.
Bad idea, it gouged out the paint a little more than I thought. I block sanded afterwords, but still couldn`t get all the scratchies out. Live and learn
-Lots of time. It took almost two weeks of work to repair and repaint these wheels. Completely worth it
Wheels are going to be rebalanced (statically) and I`ll mount them tomorrow hopefully.
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