Looking for a reputable and "fair" priced place to paint my rims. Called the 3 places that powder coat but trying to explore more options. The rims are 18's and I want white with purple flakes lmk if and where you guys got your rims done thanks.

 

Make sure your rims can handle the powder coating...if you have Rotas or another cheaply made rim, I'd just paint them

 

powerdercoating tends to make all rims brittle. i wouldn't do it... had a bunch of sets fail on friends cars because of the powdercoating.

 

Damn oh well there was a nice color that I wanted, but luckily I found someone already thanks guys

 

spray paint it. Cheapest alternative.

 

Hey, who are you?! Ha ha! How you been, Andrew?

 

That's Partially true. If you use the proper materials, and go to a well rounded powder coater, properly done rims should not become brittle and fail. I've been having wheels powdercoated for years not one failure.

 

great! oh btw, I really did spray paint my rims. can't even tell! maybe because its a matte silver finish.

 

well the problem is the heat needed to bond the powder to the rims. 350ish degrees could rearrange the actual metal molecules to make it harder, but more brittle. daily driving, you may not put more stress than a normal rim can handle, but i know for a fact that going off at SOW or BW is almost a guarantee busted wheel!

 

Your wheels see more abuse on the street than on the track (IMO, it is debatable).
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I have DD'ed powdercoated wheels. I have tracked powdercoated wheels. I've never had a problem.

 

Debatable for sure, going off at 130mph is worse, but you'll have to screw up to do that. The roads in Hawaii are crappy as heck, so it's probably worse here.

You've been pretty lucky.. there are been FEA done on powdercoated vs nonpowdercoated rims, and it's been proven they are weaker. if its a well made rim (forged or even well made alum) then it's probably still plenty strong. weak XXR or other generic rims would be mighty suspect.

 

That is also partially true. It depends on the powder you use. I had my CE28's redone in "mag blue," that powder had a bond temp of 250 Degrees. Troops in army tanks cruise at that temp. So I doubt that will hurt anything. And to fight the SOW or BW mention, any wheel can crack there. Brand new or not. Coated or not. I've seen unbendable 949 6ul's rip right off.

 

XXRs will get messes up even if they aren't powdercoated. They are made of putty.

 

250F wouldn't hurt anything, I think the rims can hit that temp with just brake heat! SOW and BW are just too full of holes in the runoff areas, my friends CE27N broke at SOW right after the back straight.

 

hehehe total agreement there!