Disadvantages of painting alloys?

[ryan21]

Hi,

 

I've read the posts about the possible risks of powdercoating wheels and just wondered if there were any disadvantages of just painting the alloys?

[Chris`I]

The finish isnt half a tough when its wet painted. What wheels do you have? For most wheels there is no harm what so ever in having them powder coated 2 or even 3 times.

[ryan21]

I'm looking at buying the Varrstoen wheels from RareRims but wanted to change them to a silver colour. I was going to powdercoat them but after reading some of the threads i thought painting might be the safer option.

[stanski]

Standard factory alloys are just painted. There is nothing wrong with just using celly on them. If your worried get them done in 2k but you can get a good finish with just aerosol. Paint clearcoat lacquer on them to seal it in then poorvoys wax in a couple of weeks time on top and they should last.

[yokomo]

Alot of the silver colours will be paint only , my black chrome is so using see an issue just do as others gave said abc look after them well .

[H5]

The thing with just paint is brake dust and other grime can bleed into the paint itself. Generally wheels will be lacquered / polished in some way and probably baked to prevent this happening. So beware of a cheap refurb / paint as it may not last as long as you hope....

[Airro]

i had my gt4 wheels powdercoated (same wheel described in the thread) and mine aint cracked

 

i read the thread, took my chances and still rolling on 4 wheels

 

im guessing it is possible powdercoating can crack the wheels, but is rare....or it's rare it hasnt cracked mine! lol

[rtbiscuit]

powder coating is a better finish its tougher than just a paint finish. all will be fine as long as they don't bake the wheels above a temperature of about 210 degrees celcius.

[alessandro]

Defenetly powder coated, and if you curb them can be easily fixed without the nedd to re furb them

[ryan21]

thanks for the advice as always guys