Weekend wheel repair (w/ PICS)

[tmag]

Looks great, sorry for a dumb question but did you wet sand or just sanded dry? Looking on doing this just curbed my second wheel, trying to be carefull and parked a little too close to the island. Funny how sometimes the more anal (carefull) you are the more duh moments happen. By the way yes my first post... been trolling for a while and thanks great site learned a lot. New to this level of detail obsession.:heelclick

[Accumulator]

J.J.- Nice job :xyxthumbs Good ending to a bad day



Some paints for wheel applications seem to work fine without primer (sorta like engine paints I guess), so I bet your repair will hold up fine.



sdat1333- Find out the paint code for the wheels. Dealership bodyshops oughta know what you should use. If it *is* something special, you can get a paintshop to mix up a spraycan`s worth of it. But between the various brands of silver wheel paint, I bet you might even find a good match with a little trial-and-error.

[nonwelder]

Can you give me the exact name of the paint you used?? Same car...same problem...

[Old Pirate]

J.J. great work on your rim , i have a Mazda5 with a scratch like that and going to repair it soon. Thanks for this post!:2thumbs:

[imported_reeeko99]

Can you give me the exact name of the paint you used?? Same car...same problem...

Ditto here. Mazda 3, same wheels.



Got one to do the same thing with. Yours turned out nice.

I gotta give that a try this weekend.



What number was the dupli color paint ?



Thanks

[J.J.]

Sure, no problem. It`s Duplicolor Truck, Van, and SUV Ultra Silver (t191). It can be found @ Autozone.



One thing I did not clarify above (relatively obvious to most) is that I wet-sanded the wheel. I did not simply dry sand.



Also, like I mentioned in a previous post, if I did this again, I would have primed the area as well.



It really is a very easy process. Just take your time. Good luck!