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Plastidip / powdercoat OEM rims black? pics?

1.3K views 5 replies 4 participants last post by  therealm3  
#1 ·
Hey all! was wondering how that look? also any difference in looks between plastidip/powdercoat rims? cost?

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I found the look i'm going for:

 
#2 ·
I'll see if i can find pics, but I have gone the plasti-dip route on a prior car and it does work. I see Pasti-Dip makes a glossy version now, which i have never used, but you would NEVER be able to get a gloss-black look like the video you posted with the regular Plasti-dip + their glossifier or pearlizer (which is what I used). With that method, the best you could get was a semi-gloss/satin look, which looked decent in a gunmetal gray color.

I still doubt even the new glossy version will look quite like the video you posted. In my case, the gunmetal color probably made this less of a factor, but i feel like a bright, shiny black, will start looking dull/dirty pretty quickly. I would be curious to hear anyone's first hand experience with the glossy version. Based on living with the non-glossy version, i would expect the gloss to fade. I had a tough time finding a method finding a product that did a good job cleaning brake dust that wouldn't also eat through the coating.

Powder coating is probably your best bet, but obviously that will cost quite a bit more!
 
#3 ·
The trouble to do powder coat (even though it's very nice).... probably should just sell these BMW rims and buy some other black rims.
 
#4 ·
Good point, probably looking at $150-$200 per wheel, right?
 
#5 ·
Unsure about price. I don't quite remember what i paid with a previous vehicle. They used black wet paint (not powder) on the all-gray set. After a while it started chipping due to handling (new tires, rotation/balance) and i had to touch up at many places. Didn't look good too even after touch-up. Thinking optimum might be either plasti-coat (something you can do and re-do yourself on weekends) or all new black rims (one-time expense).