It seems to me that powder coating wheels would be a waste of time and
effort.
The coat is soft and when the tires are installed will be cut at the
edge of the rim. Further when the wheel nut are tightened the coat will
be effectivly removed there too. Once the integrity of the coat is lost
moisture will penetrate and cause rust under coat.
John and Muddy
"Faure, Marin" wrote:
>
> How tough is powder coating? At some point in the
> not-too-distant future I need to have my SIII's wheels
> sandblasted and repainted as a couple of them have some
> surface rust and the paint on all of them is pretty sorry. My
> initial thought was to have all five wheels sandblasted, and
> then I would primer them and paint them with a commercial
> spray color that I've used before that more or less resembles
> Limestone (my entire vehicle and the wheels were Limestone
> from the factory).
>
> Several years ago, when I was first contemplating doing this,
> a friend of mine in N. California who was in the Land Rover
> parts business but isn't anymore suggested powder coating
> instead of painting. I located an outfit in Tacoma that did
> powder coating, but for various reasons I never got around
> to actually doing anything about it.
>
> Now that my SIII needs new tires, I thought it might be a
> good opportunity to spruce up the wheels at the same time.
> The advantage of painting them is that it's easy to touch them
> up if the paint gets scratched off. The advantage (so far as
> I know) of powder coating is that it looks better and is maybe
> tougher than paint.
>
> BUT..... can a commercial powder coating company match
> Limestone, or at least come close enough to where I don't
> care about the difference, and what do you do if a wheel gets
> whacked hard enough to damage the powder coating? In the
> opinion of those of you who've had experience with both, is
> powder coating wheels better than painting them, or visa versa?
> Thanks.
> ___________________________
> C. Marin Faure
> (original owner)
> 1973 Land Rover Series III-88
> 1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
> Seattle
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