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Repaint your rusty wheels
For a while now, I've been wanting to repaint my wheels. When I bought the car, the areas of the wheel that were exposed to the sun had faded and rusted as shown below. I wanted to refresh the paint job and make it look decent again.
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So, first I removed each wheel. I used a wire brush to knock down the rust, then I used a random orbit sander to clean it down to the metal.
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Next, I taped up around the tire and took some rubbing alcohol and cleaned up the wheel so it was ready for paint.
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First, the wheel got a coat of etching primer.
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Then, it got two coats of flat black paint.
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The finished look looks pretty good IMO. Still debating weather to put the wheel covers back on or not. They're kind of beat up and could use paint too.
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Here is the best before picture I had. Unfortunately I don't have any pics without the wheel covers on.
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...0&d=1307281923