Sprucing up the steelies

[Lexx]

The winter steelies on the RAV4 are looking a bit worse for wear, bit of minor rust breaking through, want to tidy them up a bit, is it worth my while rubbing them down by hand, or am I wasting my time?

Any recommendations what to use for an undercoat and matt silver finish, something thats gonna take some wear and tear ?

OR... if lazy mode sets in, is there anywhere I can give them to and go "sort it" without having to sell my organs to pay for it?

Thanks

 

[Simon998]

Get a sandpaper flappy yoke for the end of a drill, buff down the rusty bits, and then just rough up the rest.

just so the paint stiicks, and use lots of petrol/thinners on the wheel to get rid of the oil/brakedust etc!

and spray away - i painted my last Rallyé steels for under a 10er... took about 3 hours all in.

 

[Lexx]

Ok... now for a silly question....

Tyres on or off when you did it, i'm assuming it would be better taking them off, but thats a load of hassle as theyre being driven on

 

[VEN©M]

better off, but you can just tape them off really well

 

[Wayne D]

When i done the Steels on the rallye i let most of the air out of the tyres and just taped round the edges. It should leave you with enough room to work at them.

 

[Simon998]

yep totally deflate the tyres, masking tape and abit of fairyliquid around the tyre walls...

 

[Ben P]

i used different grades of wet n dry paper, then primered, sprayed and laquered my steelies a while ago.

turned out a good job!

its easy enough rubbing the rust of with wet n dry. And i done mine with the tyres still on!

 

[Lexx]

Nice job Ben, here, come up and do mine lol

Seriously tho, mine wouldnt be as bad as yours were, so i'll give it a go see what happens, whats the worse that could happen .

Simon, why fairy liquid on the side walls ?


Cheers for all the replys lads

 

[Simon998]

if you put fairy liquid on the sidewalls, when you get overspray on the tyre it wont stick, and it will just wash off.

 

[Coog]

I beaded the tyre/rim contact area with some blu-tac before spraying mine, also let the tyres right down