Originally Posted by tweedbean (Post 3338603)

Day 86 - The wheels are back from the refurbisher

As mentioned above, I picked up some super cheaper Rota Grids that looked like they had seen better days to get me off stock wheels until I can get some TE37's. I sent them off to City Wheel Refurbishment https://www.citywheelrefurbishment.co.uk/ in Birmingham who have done many sets of wheels for me and other mates in the past. I decided to go with a matt bronze finish, I have had the gloss version from them before but fancied something a little different, this colour should work well with the new body colour once done. It took a couple of weeks for them to turn them around due to whats going on at the moment but they did a great job especially for the price. £205 including tyre remove/fitting/balancing, it could have been even cheaper at around £30 a wheel if I had gone for a more standard colour such as black/silver and they didn't have to remove/fit/balance tyres. Great service if anyone is looking for somewhere to get theirs wheels done.

Ignore the budget tyres, they came pretty much free with the wheels and are literally brand new so threw them on to keep the car rolling while I continue to build it.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...668c8245_c.jpgUntitled by James Baker, on Flickr

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo (Post 3338633)

They look awesome! Paint or powder coat?

Originally Posted by tweedbean (Post 3338685)

Thanks it’s powder coat. I’ve never had a set of wheels painted, always gone with powder coat

Originally Posted by StraightOuttaCanadaEh (Post 3338696)

painted and powder coated are two different things???? what's the difference?

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo (Post 3338699)

Mind sharing the brand and color? I have a set of TE37s that need refinishing, yours look reaaally close to the original color.

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo (Post 3338699)

Mind sharing the brand and color? I have a set of TE37s that need refinishing, yours look reaaally close to the original color.

Originally Posted by tweedbean (Post 3338835)

Great question, paint is exactly as you would expect, applying liquid paint to the surface of your wheels to change colour/refresh existing colour. Paint can be applied to any surface

Powder coating is a completely different process, for refinishing objects like wheels. Very simply put they use a special type of spray gun, which applies an electrostatic charge to a supply of coloured powder particles(a mix including tiny coloured plastic beads), which are then attracted to the grounded metal part. The parts are then put in an oven/Ultraviolet light to cure.

Due to the excessive heat this process cant be used on plastics such as the wheel centre caps (There are some powdercoating processes that now work on plastics but are far less common and I've not seen a wheel refurb company have that tech).

Originally Posted by TylerLieberman (Post 3338863)

This is one of the better examples I’ve found. Definitely not exact, but pretty close for powder coat.

https://www.prismaticpowders.com/gal...-racing-wheels

Originally Posted by Yoshoobaroo (Post 3343691)

It's brown isn't it?