Does any body here have any pics of a 3rd gen debadged with black rims. I am looking to get my rims powdercoated. Any recommendations on how to debadge without hurting the paint.

 

I was told to use a hair dryer and fishing line. Heat it up some and slide the fishing line behind it to seperate it from the body. Haven't it yet but I will be debadging.

 

i think texasCTD has his rims powercoated black and they look great

brett

 

hairdryer/ heat gun, 35lb fishing line, goof off and wax for the end. I thought it would be much easier, but man it took me two hours and fingers were wore out. but it was well worth it, i think something simple like that makes nice changes to the overall look. my wife could care less that I was doing and actually thought i was an idiot for wasting time, but now she compliments it silly girls

 

anybody know of anyone with black rims on a mineral gray truck

 

 

ok

 

how much does the powdercoat run

 

50-100 per wheel

depends on sand blasting and other things.

mine were like 65 each

I changed out to chrome wheels. Now i think I would just paint them and save some cash.

 

how could you paint them and keep em from chippin

 

powder coat is just paint, it actually chips easier. IMHO. I have gone down that road on a few projects and can do a bunch of small stuff at home. I actually had a issue with mine flaking off. That was a application issue problem.

Paint can just be sanded and re painted. again if I was to do over, I would of just painted them. You can achieve the same look for under 50 total.

 

so just sand and paint........any special paint. powdercoating seems like it should be so much nicer

 

would it be possible to get the rims chromed black

 

im surprised no one has chimed in and said I was crazy or wrong.

I think that is all you need to do. No special paint. Worst case you can do one and if you dont like it then you can have them powdercoated.

Just remembered, I did this years ago to some IROC wheels. Yes I know, I think I did have a mullet then as well. But I just taped them off and painted them with Krylon. They looked great. Not sure why I did not do this with the truck.

I also may be on the paint kick because I have been working on the Jeep quite a bit. It is wasier to re paint rather than repair powder coat after a scratch.

If you decide to get them done, I would have them do the folowing. Dont powder coat any mating surface. My personal experience is the center hub and wheen did not mate up with the powdercoating. I stood in the tire shop with a file and removed a bunch of the powdercoat. They did not trust the lug nuts and sugested I remove the coating there as well. I didn't and as it turns out the tourque applied to them caused some powder fractures.

Once I noticed that I pulled them off and took some more time to remove more of the material. I needed a mallet to remove the wheels from the Hubs. They were frozen cause the material bonded or something. This took some time.

Finally from all that work the coating started to flake off. There was two coats of powder on the wheels, they looked great. Why two coats, why not. I am not sure they did the second coat as good as the first, but who know.

So I guess I had a bunch of issues and many other people have had better luck.

I also think you can just remove the wheels and paint them with out needing to mount and balance them. That will save you a extra $100 to mounting and balance... Just touch up after the next balance. You could also tape them off for a different look.

i will be doing this to my jeep once the weather warms up and I want to change the look. I will just paint them.

sorry for the long reply, i was going to post some pics of the wheels, but I cant find them. The backsides and all the poweder removed. I will take some pics and get them up later today.

 

thanks for all the advise. before i jump into this, you're sure that paint doesn't look hoopty