Ive just ordered new wheels and they will be in next week.

Im wanting them this color:

World Rally Blue (o2c)




Now these were painted.

Is there a powdercoat color close the the above painted color?

Whats the pros/cons to paint and powdercoat?

Whats the price difference?
Whats the durability/strength of each?

Thanks alot in advance for your help.

 

There are may colors of powder coating to choose from. I actually got mine done, and it was very cost worthy. I paid $60 for each one of my wheels.
There are pros and cons of PC. Pros....less resistance to chipping, easy to keep clean, and looks just as good as paint. Cons, has to be sandblasted
to be removed (well thats the only con I know of at the moment).

I have some pics if my wheels on and off the car, just so you can get an idea of how close a match you can get to our OEM paint color.
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...5&l=2e0f53b6fe

Those are the latest set of pics I have, hope you get a good idea of how it looks.

I would go PC on wheels over paint. Just my opinion.

Later !!!

 

$60 a wheel? That's dirt cheap, everywhere I go is about $100 per wheel. The biggest con of powder coating is the possibly that the prolonged exposure to heat will change the metal's properties and it will become weaker. No one knows how much it affects the wheels, but most engineers agree that it most likely has some negative effect. There are some powders that can use a low baking temperature and those are recommended.

Anyway, you'll have to find a powder coater close to you and ask all those questions because each one is different. Most will have hundreds if not thousands of colors available so you should get pretty damn close to WRB.

Painting will chip much easier, and a quality paint job will still be around $200 to $300 for the set.

 

Ok thanks Mar! Yo da man!

 

Ok thanks Mar! Yo da man!

 

Powder coating will come off with the aircraft stripper stuff...

 

why does everyone think that powder coating wheels will make them weaker? You only need to have the wheel in 200 degrees for 10-15 minutes for the powder to melt and cure to the metal. the wheel will get warm, but no where near the temperature to change the property of the metal. Most of the stock wheels that come on cars now a days are powder coated from factory, you think they would be doing that if they knew they wheels would simply crack?

Everyone one of the wheels you hear that broke after they were powder coated were more than likely under more stress than what the wheel was designed for. Take a car the is set up for drag racing, you will never see a set of stock wheels on that car, you will more than likely see a set of after market Weld wheels that were made to handle the stress of the higher hp cars.

Stock wheels were designed for normal everyday driving and not for throwing the car into corners in a time trial road course. You would be surprised on how much these wheels flex while going into a corner while doing 50+ mph.

melting point of aluminum is 1220 degrees Fahrenheit...

 

Nice colour....

 

thanks

 

what color car are you putting these on?