Wheel Painting- tarting up me steelies

I tarted up the steels on my old renault 5 without taking the tyres off

gave them a serious rub down, fisrt with a wire brush then with paper etc, sprayed them just with silver i had around, then covered the excess with tyre paint, made the tyres look a bit too shiny for the rest of the car tho. You can just mask off the tyre, and as long as you are careful cleaning the wheel around the balancing weight, it should be fine.

oh yeah, and i masked off the tyres to do these, came up ok.

you guyz is da best

Good efforts too folks- they look superb!

Infact I think i'll get the spare out and go and have a play right now- i'll see what paint I have lying around, knowing me i'll end up with different coloured wheels ;D

Tis worth primering. I cheated and bought my alloys blasted and primered. All I did then was spray them. Used hammerite matt black, with no laquer and they have survived the winter so far, will get them done properly when I get some cash though, powder coated.







Also did the steelies on the back there with the tyre on them, just washed them with water, wire brush, white spirit clean and wipe dry - and that stayed on fine. Same paint.

and if you're realy, really lazy...

ooh! thanks for the advice folks! If i decide not to put the trims back on I will do them "properly" ;D

been tinkerin, nipped down me local retrofactor and picked up a couple of cheapo cans of gloss black for 6 squids. (apologies for large pics ) :

Before (well nearly, I got a bit giddy)


this is the spare, the ones on the car are even worse


after- i did it using the surprising skoda method- can always put the trims back on! quick clean, quick wire brush, quick rub with some emery, masked the tyres


and the spare slaved on the car (to hold that corner up whilst I took the nearside front off- need more axle stands!)


not too bad from a distance are they! with my half assed prepping method (I really didnt do much ) i'll give it three days driving before the paint falls off.

The others are drying in the garage at the mo, probarly best i leave em over night and try em on tomoz.

Any comments? Insults welcome ;D

looks much better
when i did mine i used some thin card as a guide to stop over spray and did 1/3rd of the wheel at a time. To finish of i used some clear lacquer.

I've got some brand new k11 steelies that I've been tring to give away for ages if you want a blank unrusty canvas ;D

My Audi came with rusty steels and trim rings and centres that were so black that I didn't know they were chrome

An afternoon with a wire brush on an angle grinder, some gloss black and Autosol had them looking sweet again...