achieving a brushed finish

[H5G]

nasty nate

[BreakMyWallet]

thanks fellas! i agree, i didnt love the wheels when they were black. im fockin lovin em now!

[BreakMyWallet]

can you pm me the place in socal where youre going to get the wheels sand blasted? Ive tried using paint stripper and it just takes forever and is so messy. Id rather pay a shop to do it

pming you!

[Atlantian]

yea, the spoke design isnt bad at all, that wheel just looks terrible in black

Bare metal > painted wheels for classiness

[mad325is]

thanks fellas! i agree, i didnt love the wheels when they were black. im fockin lovin em now!

didnt you just make a thread about not getting any good deals?! this sounds killer and they look great now that the black is gone!

[BreakMyWallet]

haha. yea i actually got a killer deal on these.

but a deal on a car is different1 haha

[BreakMyWallet]

does anyone know if its possible to take tires off without going to the tire shop? i mean could i let the air our, unbolt the face, and pull apart the barrels? otherwise i gotta pay 40 bucks just to get them taken off

[Effin' Euro]

find a highschool with autoshop class, give a kid 5 bucks to do it

[BreakMyWallet]

do they have tire machines? haha

i mean if i could do it from home i would

[Effin' Euro]

mine in highschool did, i was gonna go back to have some dismounted, but i ended up selling the wheels.

you "can" do it...but i wouldn't reccomend it unless you absolutely do not care about the wheels anymore.

[hi its me alec]

damn, you need a new tire guy. my guy will dismount a set of 19s for $25.

and with a normal brushed finish, it actually goes in a circular motion along the face of the wheels, and then the brush changes to straight up and down in the spokes. both DPE and HRE do it that way. pretty sure it makes the finish pop more. brushed finish gets lost when it moves up and down along the spokes.

I re-brushed the DPEs when they were sold, I should have taken pictures but I had to do it all in 2 days. Here was my method to do a perfect circular motion.

- Tape the lips off
- Get a big sheet of 1000, more or less
- Cut the sandpaper into a triangle with an inch or 2 at the smallest point. Round the opposite end of the triangle off using the wheel as a stencil. Cover the rounded edge of the sandpaper triangle with tape, basically to mask off the wheel rivets.
- Use the taped outer area of the sandpaper as a place to move it around with your finger tips, resting your hands as evenly as you can. Just move slowly around each wheel twice and you're good.



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