How To Refinish Wheels Using Dupli-Color Wheel Paint
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"These BBS wheels used to have an amazing dark chrome finish. Then one day it decided to peel off like an onion skin. Watch this video to see how I refinished them after two years of trial and error..."
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GunMetal Gray Plasti Dip - Wheels and Rims - DipYourCar.com
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Fonzie from DipYourCar.com shows you the new GunMetal Gray Plasti Dip in a spraycan on his S4 wheels. How to and what the color looks like.
How to Paint Rims - Stripe Color Change
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These rims where dropped off with red stripes originally and the entire wheels were sanded and painted. This how to paint your rims video doesn't properly illustrate the prep work that was done prior to painting.
The wheels where completely scuffed, cleaned and the black was masked off before painting the rims. The clear coat applied at the end provides the shine and durability of the wheels.
This customer had brought me a set of rims from his Mazda 6 that had a red strip originally but he wanted it painted yellow to match the rest of his car. After about 10hrs of work the rims had been painted successfully. I think the rims look pretty sweet, they kinda remind me of the bumblebee man transformer. This is how to paint rims with or with the stripe, base and clear like any other job works great.
The rims were first scuffed with a sanding paste and scotch pad to prep them for the paint to adhere. Next the line was taped up and the color was applied to the rims. The first coat was a white ground coat to help my yellow cover better since it is transparent. I used a Devilbiss Dagr airbrush to apply the basecoat and a Devilbiss gti was used for clearcoat.
After basecoat the tape was removed and I removed any overspray off the rims and remasked them. The tire was masked off of the rim and the valve stem was taped up also. Two coats of BASF clearcoat was applied and allowed to dry. The basecoat used here was RM ONYX HD Waterborne paint.
How to Paint alloy Wheels/Rims on a 720bhp Nissan GTR 'without' taking the wheels off?!!!
PLEASE NOTE: NO GTR'S WERE HURT IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO!
Professional Alloy Wheel Masking Cards (the perfect gift for men):
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This week DreamCarGarage1 will take you through a step by step process revealing to you the 'tricks of the trade', of 'how to repair (refurbish) scuffed or scraped alloy wheels, using a $90,000 Nissan GTR, 'without' taking them off the car!!!. Enjoy....or HATE it's your choice!
Spray painting rims
Have you ever wanted to try spray painting your rims? Me too. Here is a time lapse video of me spray painting silver rims into white. Washing-Sanding-Priming-Painting-Clear Coating and done. i stopped the camera after final prime, and final paint so that's why it goes straight into paint/clear coat in the initial phases. Total time taken... probably around 5-6 hours. Hopefully it lasts.
Materials used:
1 400grit 3M wetordry sandpaper
1 can dupicolor sandable primer white
2 cans dupicolor engine paint white
1 can Dupicolor Clear Coat
Music: No idea, i had to to do a random audioswap because the music i put in was copyrighted :(
PlastiDip the Wheels
I saw a video of this and read about it on a few forums so I thought I would try it as a cheap alternative to painted or powdercoated wheels. So far I like it, but we will have to see if it holds up.
How to Spray Paint a Car at Home Yourself (Aerosol)
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This video illustrates how to paint a car using only aerosol spray cans. It is best to use a spray gun where possible, however it is possible to paint a car yourself with an Aerosol Spray Can.
DIY: Wrapping Rims in Matte Black Vinyl
I wanted to try a new style for my winter rims, and instead of pinting them i wrapped them in vinyl, Costs about $10 a rim. http://www.ebay.ca/itm/321097538225 This short video shows you how to wrap a rim quickly(sped up 3x), There really is no downfall to doing this, faster and cheaper then painting, the vinyl only weighs .4 ounces or about 50 grams. and thats spread out throughout the rim and if you dont like it then just peal it off. If you want more info or you want to buy some vinyl contact me at portabuddy@gmail.com Or come contact me at 8thcivic.com please don't send a message though youtube, I don't come here often.
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and scroll down to Matte Black Vinyl Rim Wrap 6x 24"x24"
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-supersonic the world of discotronic and the last song is the classic
-chemical brothers hay boy hay girl with a dunstep remix.
How to Tint a Door Window
this is an instructional video on how to tint a door window. it was done in LLumar ATC 40% complete tint including a windshield strip.
chroming proces its easy
CHROMING PROCESS
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How to Paint Your Car Yourself - Auto Body Repair (1 of 2)
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This illustrates the basic steps on how to paint a car, please check out my other auto body repair video's for more information on how to paint a car yourself, updated video includes the use of aerosol cans!
This shows the steps necessary from start to finish of a minor dent repair on the quart panel of a sunfire. It includes filler application, block sanding, priming, sealer, painting & clearcoat application.
There is many things to know if your looking to paint your car. Although this was done in a professional spray environment it can be accomplished the same at home but with likely a lot more polishing after.
This how to paint a car video assumes a bit of knowledge and if you need some more feel free to visit our website for how to paint articles or look at the other videos on our channel
CHROMING WHEELS
CHROMING PROCESS
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DIY wheel repair
WARNING: This will only work on cast aluminum allow wheels, and should only be used to repair minor lip imperfections. If you heat aluminum and cool it rapidly it can become very brittle and your wheels will crack. Please do NOT attempt to heat magnesium wheels. You do this at your own risk.
In this video I show you how to repair a curbed wheel using a product called techno-weld, and a mapp gas torch.
You can get the techno-weld here:
http://www.caswellplating.com/aids/pyro.htm
UPDATE: Some have messaged me asking why the aluminum brazing rod from Home Depot does not work. It will not bond to most types of wheels, the only thing I have found that works is the techno weld.
Update 06/24/2012: A lot of folks have left negative comments about how bad an idea this is, and maybe so. I take no responsibilty if you screw this up and ruin your wheels. As for the wheels I did this with in the video, they had only MINOR lip rash. They were on my car for 3 years, over 90,000 miles, 3 sets of tires, and 2 rounds of powder coat before I finally sold the car with the wheels still on it after making this video. They endured many potholes, speedbumps and rough roads over this time and I never had a problem.
I would still to this day use this repair method over using body filler for small imperfections in the lip of a wheel.
Let me repeat, I am in no way, shape, or form responsible if you screw up your wheels and/or have an accident.
