absolutely no need to sand the rims to apply plastidip.. the whole point of plastidip is that you can peel it off back to factory.. I spent 2 minutes prepping my rims (wiped them down with a bit of acetone) then sprayed 3 coats of plastidip.. have been wheeling many times with little more than a scratch on them..
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Originally Posted by sunshinedigger
I had been surfing the net for while now and thought to myself, I could almost conduct brain surgery due to the info on Google and Youtube
I about a month ago, I had a crack at the Plasdip rims to black, they come up pretty good, took about 30min to prep all the wheel nuts,values, with tape and a bit of a wash with turps and a quick sand( nothing to serious) then just went along and started to spray the rims with the plasicdip. By the time I finished the last tire, the first one was almost ready to go for its second coat.
I have washed them at the local car wash using the the pressure hose and all still intact.
Today I had a slow leak and had to get a puncture fix and the tyre place did a bit of damage to the paint on the rim that was require fixing. The wife just peeled the paint off and I just spent about an hour getting that rim back to the same standard as the others. IMO it was a great way to get your rims to black with out the money issue.
The snorkel took me 3 hours, using a dremel, the normal issues of sweating bullets when you start the dremel up for the first time, but I checked everything 3 or 4 times and the instructions I had were a bit out. Again pretty impressed and the missus is really happy.
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