Painting rims

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I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough

If you pray for help, it should be.
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O. Simonsen said:

Hi all...

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Any advice??

O. Simonsen

you may have limited success, but generally, it's not considered viable.
the anodizing does not present a surface to which the paint can
reliably stick so even if you get it on there, it'll quickly chip &
flake. trying to remove the anodizing involves abrasion, and an
abrasive sufficiently aggressive to remove the anodizing will take with
it significant amounts of substrate - i don't recommend it.

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Quoted message said:

Hi all...

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Any paint on the braking surfaces will eventually wear off. But
everywhere else, it'll be fine.

(O. Simonsen) said:

Hi all...

Quoted message said:

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Quoted message said:

Any advice??

The best way to maintain the paint finish on a set of spray-painted
rims is to remove the brake calipers. I recommend that you do this
immediately in preparation for the respray.

- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA

On 9 Nov 2004 02:08:25 -0800, [email hidden] (O. Simonsen)

Quoted message said:

Hi all...

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Unless you have disc brakes, don't try it. Paint and conventional
brakes do not mix well. (And paint adheres to aluminum only under
protest to begin with, so paint would probably not stay on the rim in
any event, particularly given that those are almost certainly
anodized.)
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O.-

I agree the painting won't work. If it's the 'odd golden color'
you object to, it is possible to make them just plain old silver
(i.e. bare AL) by removing the gold-colored anodizing with oven
cleaner.

K.

O. Simonsen said:

Hi all...

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Any advice??

O. Simonsen

Kirk Van Deraa said:

O.-

I agree the painting won't work. If it's the 'odd golden color'
you object to, it is possible to make them just plain old silver
(i.e. bare AL) by removing the gold-colored anodizing with oven
cleaner.

please don't do that. stressed aluminum & highly reactive chemicals
like sodium hydroxide are not a good combination.

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K.

O. Simonsen said:

Hi all...

I have a pair of slightly used Mavic Reflex rims that i wamt to use i
the winter. They have a odd golden color and I would like to spray
paint them dark grey/black. But will it last?? I'm thinking of using
god quality car paint (like Motip) and prepare them with a god
cleaning before painting - but will it be enough??

Any advice??

O. Simonsen