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.
clear coat damage on wheel
- Thread starter raaizin
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David Fermani
Forza Auto Salon
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
New member
If you are comfortable with doing the repair, Wurth carries a silver paint and clear to match German wheels. We carry it.
Accumulator
Well-known member
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.
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.