whats the color code for Suzuka Blue?
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Originally Posted by i_heart_my_DB8,Aug 1 2007, 10:30 AM
Powdercoating may be more "resistant" to curb rash than painting, but that's like saying a leather jacket is more bullet resistant than a t-shirt. The curbing will go right through powdercoating.
If you're coating the center of a 3 piece wheel, that shouldn't even matter anyway, all you need to be concerned with is rock chips. If you like the look, just paint them, and ask for a bottle of touch up paint. You should be fine.
If you're coating the center of a 3 piece wheel, that shouldn't even matter anyway, all you need to be concerned with is rock chips. If you like the look, just paint them, and ask for a bottle of touch up paint. You should be fine.
BTW, Your analogy of the t shirt and the leather jacket is correct, but I would be spending more time trying to clean up the small paint damages on the wheel as opposed to cleaning a powdercoated wheel.
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LOLOLOL... acting all cocky about "powdercoat" when not even knowing what it used and why on current high end wheel production.
a powdercoat chip is much harder to fix than a paint chip as well, due to the thickness of the coat.
also make sure the person painting the wheels has assembled wheels before.. and knows which sealer to use, as well as where to paint and where not to paint to promote the wheels sealing and bead sealing... its not as simple as unbolt/rebolt.
a powdercoat chip is much harder to fix than a paint chip as well, due to the thickness of the coat.
also make sure the person painting the wheels has assembled wheels before.. and knows which sealer to use, as well as where to paint and where not to paint to promote the wheels sealing and bead sealing... its not as simple as unbolt/rebolt.
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Originally Posted by trivium,Aug 1 2007, 10:47 AM
Im actually going with the "color matched lip" theme that is the current fad. So I will be getting the centers done in glossy black and the lip to be suzuka.
BTW, Your analogy of the t shirt and the leather jacket is correct, but I would be spending more time trying to clean up the small paint damages on the wheel as opposed to cleaning a powdercoated wheel.
BTW, Your analogy of the t shirt and the leather jacket is correct, but I would be spending more time trying to clean up the small paint damages on the wheel as opposed to cleaning a powdercoated wheel.
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Originally Posted by trivium,Aug 1 2007, 09:24 AM
I want to powder coat them since they extremely durable compared to painting and are more resistent to curb rash. Oh well....
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Originally Posted by i_heart_my_DB8,Aug 2 2007, 10:43 AM
Interesting. Black centers w/Suzuka lip? Hope you get it done, and I can see it.
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As far as I know, while that may be the "paint code", there is no "powdercoat code" to match your car. You basically have to go in there and pick out a sample that most closely resembles your paint, thereby making it next to impossible to match your paint with powder. They don't make powders to match paint codes.