Sandblasting Black Steelies

disco1776

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I am about to order the 15x8 AR steel wheels, which only come in black from Gulf Coast Rovers, and since my truck is black I was going to sand down the black powder coat to get to the steel finish. I was just wondering if it was worth getting the whole set sandblasted to remove the black finish or should i just sand them down myself. Has anyone done this?
 

RichardS

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Top answer your question directly, find a sanblasting shop and have them do it. It would take virtually forever to remove all of the powder coating from all of the nooks and crannies by hand.

But before you do that, which will likely be expensive, consider a silver painted finish. If you take them to bare metal you are going to need something on them, a clear coat at least. I would just scuff the powder coat lightly with a scotchbrite pad, clean well with mineral spirits, and spray paint silver to get the look you want. Then you do not need to remove the original powder coating.

Or take them to an auto body shop and ask what they would charge to spray them with some left over silver paint. You could even ask about epoxy hardeners and/or other additives they could add to the paint to make it hold up better on wheels.
 
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syoung

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Sandblasting will get much better results than trying to hand-sand them... by far.
Use it as an excuse to buy a cheap blasting cabinet. :D
 

disco1776

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I would leave the wheels black, but the truck is black also and I just dont like the black on black look. Unless someone has some pics of their truck like this that would convince me otherwise.
 

Steve Rupp

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Leave them black. When it's clean the black on black kicks ass. Now here's one bad ass truck ;) Man, i miss that thing.
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clayatem

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It's not black but i like the way it looks with black rims.
I need to finsh working on it to up date pic.
 

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Here's another one
 

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disco1776

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Ruppsrover said:
Leave them black. When it's clean the black on black kicks ass. Now here's one bad ass truck ;) Man, i miss that thing.
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Ok...you got me. That truck is pretty bad ass. Ill just keep them black unless I just cant stand it. Also, the with be on 33x12.50 TSL Swampers so that will be pretty beefy as well.