The New And Improved Unofficial R65 Forum V2

Technical Discussion => BMW Technical Q&A, Primarily R65 => Topic started by: AH1510 on September 15, 2009, 03:57:41 PM

Title: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: AH1510 on September 15, 2009, 03:57:41 PM

Hello from the sunny left coast. Spent the morning cleaning all the accumulated crud of the rear wheel. Oil, dirt, and all things that can be collected in those nooks and crannies for the wheel web. I found that waterless handcleaner, soft rag, and a pencil work well in those  corners. Anyone on this site repainted thier wheels??? If so and you did it yourself, what worked for you?? Thanks. OLDPAUL.

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: montmil on September 15, 2009, 05:42:37 PM

Hello, Justin?

OldPaul, just don't get Justin stated on his blast sand rant. I'm innocent, I swear. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.  [smiley=beehive.gif]

Monte

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: Bengt_Phorqs on September 16, 2009, 08:32:04 AM

Justin has one really beautiful wheel blasted and painted.  There's a thread on here about that somewhere.  He ran out of blast sand and the closest source he can find is about 60 miles to the north of him at a Tractor Supply.  Monte, can you verify that?

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: AH1510 on September 16, 2009, 01:03:58 PM

Thanks Bent,
                      I will search for it. Just finding my way around this site.OLDPAUL.

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: montmil on September 16, 2009, 05:46:57 PM

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Justin has one really beautiful wheel blasted and painted.  There's a thread on here about that somewhere.  He ran out of blast sand and the closest source he can find is about 60 miles to the north of him at a Tractor Supply.  Monte, can you verify that?

I was at Harbor Freight two weeks ago and they had five different styles of blast media. Small buckets to big bags.   Monte  

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: Bob_Roller on September 16, 2009, 05:54:57 PM

I would be cautious, on what type of media is used on a snowflake rim, they are a soft aluminum alloy, I wouldn't use sand for sure .

I would go for a plastic media, if all you have is a dirty rim, no corrosion .

Title: Re: Painting R65 wheels.
Post by: mimmo66 on September 18, 2009, 09:42:22 PM

I had mine powdercoated and clear coated, look stunning but expensive.
Paid about 400 greens+ extra cash for renewing  bearings. WOULD i DO IT AGAIN? NO.
Guess I'll have to give extra cash to my tire installer next time to avoid any screetches

Domenico