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Painting a BBS RA any advice?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:54 am
by andy69
My Rocco sits on RA's. Three of them look pretty good, but the finish on the other is dreadful, but with not to many scuffs. It's had water ingress under the lacquer, so the paint has lifted and started to peel.
Thinking of re-finishing it myself, as I have the time and patience, but not enough money at the mo to refurbish and may eventually go for p-slots anyway.
I want the finish to match the others; colour etc. Has anyone got proper experience of prep / paints with these? Any advice will be thankfully recieved.
Cheers Andy
Re: Painting a BBS RA any advice?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:31 am
by Jay4424
at £50 a wheel you can get them professionally done, talk to about it tonight!
Re: Painting a BBS RA any advice?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:31 pm
by fonzooorooo
my steelies and trims are rattle-can hammerited. Easy to achieve a nice finish, (especially considering the time I spent on them!) but chips easily... (rust spots started coming through after a year) so not sure how strongly I could really recommend...
Wards at Burton do a nice stove enameling job. ... Again, only experience of steelies, but my dad had his S1 XJ6 wheels done there. Quick turn around too.
Re: Painting a BBS RA any advice?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 9:30 pm
by andy69
fonzooorooo wrote:my steelies and trims are rattle-can hammerited. Easy to achieve a nice finish, (especially considering the time I spent on them!) but chips easily... (rust spots started coming through after a year) so not sure how strongly I could really recommend...
Wards at Burton do a nice stove enameling job. ... Again, only experience of steelies, but my dad had his S1 XJ6 wheels done there. Quick turn around too.
Thanks mate, I've heard about Wards. Refurbing isn't really an option though because of money etc. I do have lots of experience of painting, but aren't really sure of what to do as I've never done BBS before. Been looking at Frost's stuff as I've used them for other products like their chassis paint and it's really very good.
Cheers
Re: Painting a BBS RA any advice?
Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 7:42 am
by fonzooorooo
Only ever come across 1 product at frosts that's less than good (product for levelling touch up paint on stone chips - useless!) ... Everything else i've tried's fine. Tend to be pricey, but then you can't get the stuff elsewhere, so you either buy it or not...
Of course, if it's just a stop gap pretty-up job till a refurb on the whole set can be afforded, you could always just flat the badly affected areas, and use bog standard silver wheel paint. Cheap and cheerful approach - and on the shelf at Speedy's!