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STI BBS Wheel purchase and Plasti-dip peeling
PLEASE, if you plasti-dip something, do a lot of coats, apply evenly, and clean the part before spraying. It has been a huge pain to peel the black plasti-dip off everything but the face of the wheels (where the original owner did a decent job). He also didn't peel the original stickers, among a general cleaning. It's strange to think that others don't respect these nice wheels as much. Forged, 16 lbs, great looking wheels, in our bolt pattern and general offset.
So after peeling and cleaning, there's still a lot of refinishing that needs doing. 2 of the wheels have some major paint chipping on the face from what looks like gravel impacts, and 2 wheels have some curb rash. Purchased 2 cans of Wurth silver wheel paint, supposedly a good match for the original paint, and am about to go to town with a file and sandpaper to get things smoothed out. some light filler, primer, Wurth silver, and probably Duplicolor clear. I'll try to post the continuation of this process as I move along.
for now, here's some pictures of the before, during and after peeling process. still more cleaning to do before moving to the actual refinishing. But boy are they going to be great when I'm done...
On a side note, I was going to have them "professionally" refinished, but the local shops were quoting about 1k for fixing the light damage and repaint. since they're worth about 1.2k max, I opted DIY.
Last edited by Flinkly; 03-10-2014 at 11:00 PM..
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