>RE: Wheel Paint >While on the subject, does anyone have a good method of painting alloy >wheels WITHOUT removeing them from the van? Mine need painting but I'm not >in a position to remove them and do it the right way. Any ideas that have >worked? I did the factory Japanese-made VW Santana wheels we fitted to our diesel 89 Corona taxi. Cleaned them thoroughly on the car with wheel cleaner & a toothbrush , masked the tires from the edges of the rims and sprayed them with wheel paint. Several years and 300,000km later the paint hasn't come back off. -- Andrew Grebneff Dunedin New Zealand Fossil preparator <andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz> Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut HUMANITY: THE ULTIMATE VON NEUMANN MACHINE DEMOCRACY: RULE BY THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR |
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