So, in the never ending quest to get the military tires on my truck, I picked up a set of aluminum wheels a few months ago in Denver. They're the shiny finish ones and I would have much preferred black ones. But at the price I paid and considering how hard it seems to be to find 16.5" wheels in a 8x170mm bolt pattern, I picked them up anyway. Made a few calls to some powder coaters to see how much it would cost to get them flat blacked. 25/wheel was pretty much the going rate. Then, two days ago I stumbled across a thread over on Ford Trucks where a guy said he'd used the Plasti-dip coating (same stuff you dip your hand tools into to put a coating on the handles) to paint his wheels. I thought I would give it a shot. And here's what happened.
Here's a side by side of one coated and one not.
And a closer shot of the coated one. I have some runs in the coating but I've only shot it once so far. I think I will get those runs out with more application.
Best part is, if I don't like the coating any more or if it gets damaged and looks like garbage, I can pee it off and reshoot it.
Now I'm wondering what black slots might look like.
