Lowes Home Improvement has it.
Lowes Home Improvement has it.
You won't find all the neat colors at a big box store. Black, white, red, orange, blue, and grey are what is usually present.
Dip Your Car had a wheel package. I think 6-8 cans for $50. Works out to something like $7 a can.
Appleseed wrote: You won't find all the neat colors at a big box store. Black, white, red, orange, blue, and grey are what is usually present. Dip Your Car had a wheel package. I think 6-8 cans for $50. Works out to something like $7 a can.
Wish I'd seen your post earlier, I stopped at half a dozen places on the way home. The places that had it in stock only had flat black, flat white and one place added flat orange. This isn't a race car and in not a stance stared so they are all out. I guess ill check out dip your car.
You watch the "Bronze" video? I'm hoping they sell a kit with those colors. Who knew camo brown and copper make bronze?
Adrian_Thompson wrote: I am not going to paint these wheels or sand blast them and powder coat them. When I do them properly I'll get them refinished. I don't want to do anything that will make re-finishing harder. It's Plasti-dip or nothing at this point. I think I'll try and figure out who carries plasti-dip and stop by on the way home.
I have plasti dipped my DD's wheels 2x now ( I wanted a color change). This thing is driven in snow (harmless) and seems unaffected by the salt/brine chemicals the county uses to battle snow.
I was amazed how new the wheels looked when I stripped the old stuff off.
I have seen a few reviews and it appears if you soak in wd-40 the plastidip is easy to remove. Mine "hardened" from brake heat (and a few autocrosses), it was a pain to peel off. I read about wd40 after the fact.
The finish holds brake dust well, so it will always be temporary. Physical scrubbing strong enough to clean them would probably lift the finish. But it protects the surface underneath.
Both times I applied the plastidip I thought "I might as well paint them" with all the prep I put into it. I have no idea how well it would hold up if you didn't prep well.
Origionally I bought a few cans from Amazon because I wanted a specific color, I got cans without labels. The second time around I used eastwood's free sample and homedepo's actual name brand cans (don't remember brand) and it went on better.
I've got a bad taste in my mouth with plastidip. I've tried all the recommended methods for paining, prepping, etc. In cold temps warm the cans, layer, cross pattern, etc. When it comes down to removing it, it's the biggest pain in the ass. WD-40 helps out exponentially especially in hard to get too nooks and crannies. WD-40 + a pressure washer made it way easier but still more of a pain than it should have been.
As far as longevity? I "dipped" my wife's wheels for her Foz and stayed like that for 2.5 yeras without any issues. Like others have said brake dust is almost impossible to remove/clean.
The metalizers are cool too. Turned the black wheels on my Si into a deep dark purple. After a good coating of brake dust it looked horrible though.
Appleseed wrote: $55 bronze wheels.
Bonus points for being able to wash the brake dust off of them, too.
You did read the part about not wanting spray bomb them, right?
I did mine. I had a set of winter wheels with snow tires that were pretty banged up, so I decided to go for a quick and cheap Plasti Dip. I pressure washed the wheels and went over them with brake cleaner. I then masked off the tires and stems. I used one can per wheel, two would have been better but I was on a budget. I went with a smaller number of heavy coats because I have no patience, but numerous light coats would have covered better.
My finish was pretty rough, VERY hard to get a smooth finish especially with no patience. These wheels were for slushy Pittsburgh winters, so they would normally be covered in cinders and snow so I wasn't really concerned. They were white and they looked good from 10 feet away.
Over the winter, I did notice that the fronts got pretty grey from brake dust...especially on white. A magic eraser helps, but it never comes of 100%. The other issue that I had was that the spokes are pretty open and you could see that the white bled unevenly into the inside of the tire. I should have masked the the inside of the rim.
Have not tried to remove it yet.
FYI, here is what they look like now.
Yeah, I did the wheels on the white rallycross MR2 with Blaze Orange. Physically they held up very well both to street/salt and dirt/dust. Color wise? Brake dust cleaned up about 90% with the usual methods but they never quite got back to 100%. I didn't mind becauseracecar.
I dipped the wheels on my trailer and they have held up well. Now the trailer doesn't have brakes, but it has been used through 1 winter so far and held up well.
Rather alarmingly all the how too's I've seen where they wheels are off the car they don't mask off the lug seat meaning there will be a softish pliable layer between the lug nut and the wheel. That's scary, I'll be spraying some old lug nuts with something that Plasti-Dip won’t stick too and laying them in place before I apply the dip, horizontal surface obviously. Let's hope it's here by the weekend.
Adrian_Thompson wrote: Rather alarmingly all the how too's I've seen where they wheels are off the car they don't mask off the lug seat meaning there will be a softish pliable layer between the lug nut and the wheel. That's scary, I'll be spraying some old lug nuts with something that Plasti-Dip won’t stick too and laying them in place before I apply the dip, horizontal surface obviously. Let's hope it's here by the weekend.
Just peel the Plasti-Dip off the lug seats when you get done. Check out some of their videos of dipping the emblems and badges on a car to see how it is done. I found it was very easy to peel the unwanted dip off when I did my grille. I did not even mask off the emblem in the middle of the grille, just peeled it off when I was done.
With brake dust, do what I did with the Murdercycle's gas tank when I changed colors. Clean as much of the dust off, then bomb it with color again and again. That way, by the time you are ready to peal it off, it'll be nice and thick. Should come of nicely.
A friend of mine did his Enkei PF01s in gold and wanted to try experimenting with other colors, so I offered him a set of ratty K1s. He put down a basecoat of black, then some sort of metallic green. They've held up well on a low-mile car and haven't been too badly affected by brake dust. I don't know what will happen if I decide to remove the stuff, but I like how they look now so that's not something I worry about.
I am going the other way with this. Finally found a set of RX8 wheels and tires for the family Mazda 5. Got them for a great price as they were dipped and dusted. So far a good soaking with goof off is working best.
Well it finally happened the other weekend. Got the 'True Metallic Anthracite'. Prep was wash with detergent, wash again with brake dust remover and hit all the scabby clear coat with a scotch brite pad and a gentle scraper to lift off the loose stuff. Wipe down with paint thinner then paint.
Observations:
1 - Coverage per can is better than I thought. I got 4 four cans and didn't even need two cans for 5 coats.
2 - I thought it would lay on thicker and hide the edges of the peeled clear coat better than it does.
3 - It's mega forgiving. I was working outside on a windy day and the cards I put between the wheel and tire blew off the edge and onto the paint several times. Pull them out and the mark they left in the paint smoothed out as it dried and is not visible.
In the end it's a 5 footer job. 'Normal' people wont notice it looks like crap, but I was hoping for better.
After cleaning and Scotch briting 
Ain't they purddy 
First coat on thin
Finished. Edge of old clear coat clearly visible.
Art! Shows I must have had good coverage!
As I say a good five footer until I decide to have them professionaly re-finished.
Are those plain old index cards? That is very clever!
paranoid_android74 wrote: Are those plain old index cards? That is very clever!
Nope, not plain old index cards. These are fancy schmancy colored index cards
Javelin wrote: I did and it was terrible. 2 cans of red for 4 16" wheels was NOT enough. It's more of a 1 can = 1 wheel. You still have to do all of the same prep as paint, so you might as well paint it. Brake dust can NOT be cleaned out of Plasti-Dip. It took 5x the work to peel that garbage off after 6 months and paint the wheels than it would have taken me to just paint them in the first place.
You should have used 2 cans per wheel. It comes off in a solid sheet if you have enough on.
I did the same as you, 1 can to wheel (or maybe even 1 can per side of the car). three wheels took forever. the last wheel which I had coated the crap out of as it was the first wheel I coated. It peeled off in like 5 minutes...
I really want to plasti dip the hood on my Duster just so I can do this:
Except instead of the "340 WEDGE" sticker, I want "250 SLANT" just to mess with people.
My buddy plasti-dipped his wheels. Didn't like it. Can't clean them, and brake dust, pollen, and dirt stick like crazy.
Look into having them chemically stripped. Then bring them to me and I'll powder coat them. If they are stripped when they get here, we coydo them in a day. What size are they?
In reply to DrBoost:
18x7
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