Rejuvenated Stock Alloy's - see Potato's listing

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Comment by Boss73 on June 25, 2009 at 7:05pm

Yep this is something that I have been wanting to do to my stocks for some time now.. I think that I will have to try this to my stocks wheels. Looks great Mark !!

Comment by MoabFJ on June 25, 2009 at 5:01pm

I bought the alloys with no tires, so the first thing done was to strip off the old wheel weights.

Take off the center caps and the chrome toyota logo. After giving everything a bath in very soapy water (dish washing soap is good at removing wax and oils), rinse with clean water.

At this point I break out the scotch brite pad (use green, red is too abrasive) and carefully scrub both sides of the wheels down. You can run a water hose on the wheel while you scrub. You can tell when you are done because water will cling to the old paint in a sheet, not run off like it was waxed.

After every thing is dry, I start by painting the backs of the wheels with a light coat, and 2 follow-up coats at 20 min intervals. after they dry overnight, repeat the process with the fronts. You can tape up the valve stems or have them replaced later.

The wheel shop managed not scratch the wheels mounting the tires (Garcia ridge took care of that!, which is why I had to re shoot them). It is a simple way to dramatically change the look of your stock tires with a minimal cash layout.

Comment by manoweb on June 25, 2009 at 4:23pm

Oh this is something I want to do to my wheels to. The best would be to have steelies, I love them, but I have the alloy and have to bear with them.

Would you describe better the "preparation" part?

Comment by MoabFJ on June 25, 2009 at 2:34pm

The stock alloys can look a lot nicer with a little prep work and some textured black paint.
4 hours of prep, 3 cans of paint @ $6.50 each, = a much better looking set of stock wheels.
As a bonus, the textured pain is the most dirt and brake dust resistant paint I have ever seen.

Now go buy Potato's wheels and get to work!