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[Domenic Lippolis <dom@aorta.med.yale.edu>]

Josh Clark wrote:
	
I have been planning this for a while and since my car is now officially off
the road I can paint the wheels.  My question is does anyone have any paint
experience or a brand of paint that is good and weather resistant.  I am
looking for a low-gloss flat black paint that I can spray myself.  Do you
think this is too hard for me to risk myself?  Thanks a lot.
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	Josh what kind of wheels are they??  The reason I ask is that if they have a previous coat of paint or if they have been powder coated getting paint to stick will be a challenge.
	I bought a set of BBS rims that were gold and I didn't want gold.  SO I tryed to strip them to paint them.  It wouldn't come off.  I borught them to get sand blasted, it wouldn't come off.  Turns out they were powder coated.
	SO I brought them to a place called Airborne Coatings that does all kinds of powder coating.  He showed me the colors they had (hundreds) and the cost was right (like $45 per tire.)  That included stripping and painting.
	They look incredible and brand new.  Let me stongly recommend you looking into powder coating them.  I think that it can only be one color though and no two tones, etc.  But ask anyway.  
	Funny part is, is that I knew the wheels had come off and Audi 4000.  I had sized them up against my car and the bolt pattern "seemed the same."  Well after I had mounted two tires to the rims and went to put them on the car did I realise the hard way:
			Audis have a 4X108 and VWs have a 4 X 100mm bolt pattern.

	Oh well they look great on my friend's 88 Audi 90 now....


							DOM!

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