Wheel Paint 02 tacoma

hi all,
steel wheels on my tacoma are chipped and looking ugly....where do you all buy spray cans to paint it with?.....what brands?....is rustoleum ok....wondering what is the best match....i have seen some factory paint online for high $$
this forum is such a great resource,
thank you,
juan

 

I used Dupli-Color High Performance Wheel Coating and Rust-Oleum High Performance Enamel. Both produced a good finish with proper prep.

Dupli-Color


Rust-Oleum

 

I used this...



my wheels went from this..


to this..


one year later they still look like new.

 

x3 on the duplicolor wheel paint

 

How did you paint the Toyota logo?

 

Unorthodox use for the Duplicolor wheel paint, but I used it for my SPC Upper Control Arms.

 

Duplicolor

 

Is the Duplicolor the peel off kind?

 

I second that question.
I am painting my wheels soon.

 

artist brush and red model paint.

 

no....unless you prep it wrong.lol

 

I think I can do that LOL

 

Did you use sand paper or paper and paint stripper to take off the clearcoat?
if stripper what kind?

 

Just did my FJ wheels that had the usual corrosion


Grinded with wire wheel,
sanded,
primed (rustoleum self-etching x2 coats),
Painted (rustoleum matte black wheel paint x3 coats




viola!

 

Too sweet SS!
Had you thought to accent those perimeter 'dimples' somehow so they stand out?

 

I've seen it done but I'm pretty monochromatic by nature

 

I am certainly not multichromatic

 

For aluminum wheels would you want to substitute this step for regular primer or aluminum-specific primer? The self-etching part is usually phosphoric acid and zinc, the intention is to prep fresh steel from surface rusting and provide anti-corrosion since zinc is sacrificial to iron. But I think this works the opposite with aluminum and causes oxidation, which I thought is why you had to use zinc chromate (which is nasty, so it's not typically found) to keep it sacrificial on aluminum instead?

ETA: Nope, I'm wrong, the can I have says it's OK for metal (I assume they mean steel), aluminum and fiberglass.

 

Dave you must be an engineer.
Hey, can you get this figured out and post it for us as I would want to know what the difference is in primers and which would be best for aluminum wheels.

 

I used rustoleum graphite colored wheel paint probably close to 10 years ago now. Still holding up.