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Not today, but an year ago this day I started my winter wheels' update to my new ride...
Thought of buying new rims for the tires, but I liked the toughness they seem be to made off to endure any slide-n-collide and decided to just tape all the chrome and plastidip it to match the colour on the original factory all-season wheels:
It took a couple of days to do maybe around 10 layers (not heavy) of plastidip (around an hour of interval between coats):
and once all the gray plastipid was thick and cured, I sprayed a few thin coats of flat graphite enamel to pull the colour closer to the match I wanted. It turned out very good:
Then I decided to add a thin silver reflective boarder to the exterior edge of the rims.
After another day curing it was covered with mat glossifier. Patience and several more applications and couple days to cure properly and I was happy.
Looking simply at the rims it's not noticeable the reflective line, especially when they are dirty, but once dark and headlights hit the truck it really makes it visible enough to make me feel comfortable when I park it in a dark area or when the weather shortens visibility.
^^^ phone's flash reflection - note the faint effect on the back wheel as well ^^^
Of course this was all done on the evenings after coming from work and was at a room where I was doing a small reno and it was constantly kept warm and ventilated to the exterior.
Of course they are not beautiful rims, but as I mentioned they seem to be tough to handle winter equipment loads (snowmobiles and other winter fishing and bush camping stuff) and to absorb better an impact in an even of a sliding. We'll see...
This is what they look(ed) on my new and previous rides:
Note the reflective line isn't visible at all...
Not too bad I think
No significant snow here yet (too early) but here's my Ranger a couple years ago when we got ~16"! I had that thing on 32's with a lot of ground clearance and I couldn't even pull out of the driveway, snow was too deep.
11-18-2018, 02:47 AM
