Painting Stock Wheels Black

[akexpy04]

Living in Alaska, I have 2 sets of wheels, one is summer wheels and the other is winter wheels with stock rims and studded tires. Since i hate the stock winter wheels, I was looking to paint them myself (since its cheaper) and i found this forum on F150online.com.
http://www.f150online.com/forums/wh...-oem-wheels-step-step-w-pics-56k-warning.html

Im gonna give this a shot and post pics up here with it step by step soon. Heres a pic of my stock wheels on from last year...Ugly yeah i know

 

[Expeditionary]

i want to do this to mine but idk how it'll look with a green truck........

I also am going to get new rims that are wider than stock for my new tires and they'll be black so idk lol

 

[walnuts4x4]

should look good... just spend some extra time doing the prep....

 

[EMendoza93]

It's not that hard... I painted mine that looked exactly like yours. They came out pretty good. All I did was sand the rim and then spray the paint. They came out good. And lasted through the winter without chipping or anything.

 

[EMendoza93]

 

[alaskanexpy]

yeah go for it, the wheels on my explorer started looking like crap so i painted them with a metallic grey. we'll see how it holds up.

 

[Soldier777]

These are my old expy wheels that I put on my F150

 

[akexpy04]

Nice, now i know how it'll look on it with it all blacked out. Planning on doing it this weekend but Gotta buy the equipment. Any suggestions or helpful hints in doing this? its my first time so i want to make sure i do it right, especially in the prep stage

 

[panda24619]

youtube!!! it helped me a lot. all you really need to do is mask off, sand, clean that up with rubbing alcohol or paint thinner, let dry of like a min, primer a few coats, let dry, can sand if you want, paint a few coats then clear. mine old up great to the natural environment, but put a screw driver on them and now i have cracks everywhere. along with some curb damage. o well.

 

[Starman]

plasti dip. if u dont like it, peel it off. check it on you tube.