DIY: Wheel Restoration
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i'm thinking about doing this on some g37 sport's. but the color on those is a lighter tone. Getting the color right is crucial, hopefully that duplex wheel paint comes in various different colors. I guess you got to have a dremel or some sort of power tool to sand down the curb rash risen damage too.
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First, it's Duplicolor. Don't want you looking for the wrong paint. And second, you're not going to be able to duplicate the OEM color. The best you can do is use one of the stock Duplicolor colors, or have whoever's powdercoating them mix up something that's going to be close to OEM. The OEM color for the 1st Gen wheels Hyper Silver is very complex, with 6 different colors in it in varying amounts, including miniscule amounts of Magenta and Green (between them they make up less than 0.6% of the volume). But the formula I've seen (and is posted somewhere here) also uses internal Nissan color codes, so you don't really know exactly what they're referring to. They use PPG colors, but I've talked to several PPG dealers, and they didn't know those colors. The guy who posted it hadn't tested it to see if it matched, but had found the formula on PPG's website.
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Nice job. I recently did a restore on my salt pitted aluminum lips on my 19 axis hiros. I blocked the lips with 220, then stepped to 400, 800, 1200. Polished the raw metal with meguires polish and cleaned them well. Hit them with 4 coates of nason clear, 1600 wet sand and finished with wizards finish cut. These wheels look better than new. An FYI for anyone with the good ole up north problem with nice wheels and salty roads. I used a high speed rotary buffer at around 2000rpms.
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Nice job. I recently did a restore on my salt pitted aluminum lips on my 19 axis hiros. I blocked the lips with 220, then stepped to 400, 800, 1200. Polished the raw metal with meguires polish and cleaned them well. Hit them with 4 coates of nason clear, 1600 wet sand and finished with wizards finish cut. These wheels look better than new. An FYI for anyone with the good ole up north problem with nice wheels and salty roads. I used a high speed rotary buffer at around 2000rpms.