Whus Happening, Fam!

A while back I bought a 1992 Cadillac Sedan Deville and it's a great car with only 70k original miles on it. The 4.9 Liter V8 runs like a champ and the body and interior are excellent!

My rims however are a different story. I have the grey alloy rims which are okay but have lost a lot of their luster. I've cleaned them up and they have a little shine but not much. I wanted to know if it was possible to spray paint them with a chrome finish (canned spray paint maybe?). Here's some pics with the type of rims I have. The 3rd Link (pic) is just to show the color of the car that I have:

http://www.gmphotostore.com/images/53218502_pr.jpg

http://www.wheelsrims.net/images/pro.../aly04504u.jpg

http://mankatofreepress.autoconx.com...022275_1_B.jpg

I have the cover caps on mine as well.


Thanks

Blue

 

You can try Plastikot Chrome Bumper paint, but it won't be a pure chrome finish. You could send them to a powder coater or even buff a shine into them yourself.

 

I have tried the chrome spray paint from duplicolor, its crap.
I decided to go with silver and clearcoat duplicolor wheel paint on the cadillac wheels I put on the HHR. They turned out pretty well.

 

Cool. My rims are actually silver instead of grey. Would the spray paint be in a can? I'm really trying to get those rims looking better than what they do. I got some simple green and cleaned all of the muck off of them. I'm trying to get them to shine pretty good!

Thanks

Blue

 

It sounds like yours arent too bad. Im not sure but those first two pics look like they are polished. Is there a clearcoat on yours, maybe peeling? Any oxidation (rough white/grey patches)? If they are polished then you can take off any remaining clearcoat and re-polish them with an aluminum polish product, then re-clear.
Mine were bad, curb rash on all of them, many scratches, peeling clearcoat, gouges in the metal. I had to do some sanding and use some filler primer to smooth them out.

 

I believe they are polished. They are aluminum alloy riims. I don't see any peeling...just as you mentioned some curb rash, scrapes, nicks, gouges, scratches, and age. I don't see any white patches so far. Since I know nothing about paint at all (house paint I know a little), is the primer a canned spray paint? Do I have to take the wheels and tires off the vehicle (not my first choice) and use some type of sander to do all of this? Too bad you're not in Fort Worth Texas cause I think the best bet (since I"m sort of an idiot when it comes do doing this type of stuff) would be to have someone show me hands on. I don't have a problem doing the physical labor at all but I'll someone with some expertise to kinda help and watch me so to speak! The only "tool" I have is a old wizard that I bought my wife some years ago with some attachments so that she could do some of her crafts with it.

Any takers?

P.S. Sorry about putting this in the wrong forum Mods. I keep forgetting that there is a separate forum for stuff like this!

Thanks

Seventh

 

It sounds like they may not be clearcoated, just polished alloy. You would be able to see a bit of peeling clearcoat around any deep scratches. Check carefully. Since you say there is no significant oxidation, no sanding or priming should be needed.
If there indeed is no clearcoat, then all they need is a good polish. Mothers make good kits for polishing alloys, they work well and are fairly easy to use, just read the directions. Their PowerBall attaches to a drill and makes it a much faster job for flat surfaces, PowerCone for getting into crevices, they also have a PowerMetal polish to use with them.

 

All good, Dude! I think there's some cracking but I'm not sure.

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Ah, it looks like they are machined (carved) and not polished. That looks to be some oxidation patches around the center, but its hard to see from a picture whether it is under a clearcoat or not. Are you sure theres not some kind of plastic film over top of those grey patches? If there is, then it means more work to fix these, similar to what I had to do to mine.

 

The rims look great, i have a set of the exact rims and were going to see what they looked like on my Black Granite HHR, the only thing i don't like is the Cadillac emblem in the middle, can't see what you did from the posted picture. Any ideas?