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Curb rash home repair

jmills94

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Hey everybody, proud (and angry) new FiST club member here.

I made the mistake of letting my brother drive it, and he hit a curb and put a nice little gash on the edge of the wheel. I’ll post a picture if I can figure out how to do that. Anyway, the gash is small but it’s very irritating since I haven’t even had the car a week, so I’m gonna get it fixed—I’d prefer to do it myself.

I know the basic process of filling and paint, could definitely use some tips, but I was hoping somebody could tell me about some good primer and paint products. I have the glossy black OEM wheels and obviously do not want the repair to be noticeable. Any advice?

Thanks
 


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If it was me ....Id make my brother find/Buy me a new or used mint wheel.[party]
My 19 years old nephew, few months ago, took his father new Mitsu and went for a ride…..[driving]…...When he came back, the Mitsu seemed the Flintstone's car..( complete with a canvas canopy ) [clap] [cheerleader]
 


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Hey everybody, proud (and angry) new FiST club member here.

I made the mistake of letting my brother drive it, and he hit a curb and put a nice little gash on the edge of the wheel. I’ll post a picture if I can figure out how to do that. Anyway, the gash is small but it’s very irritating since I haven’t even had the car a week, so I’m gonna get it fixed—I’d prefer to do it myself.

I know the basic process of filling and paint, could definitely use some tips, but I was hoping somebody could tell me about some good primer and paint products. I have the glossy black OEM wheels and obviously do not want the repair to be noticeable. Any advice?

Thanks
I know that this is a fairly old post but I curbed one of my black OEM wheels last fall before putting winter snows on. With the wheels off I looked for the correct paint to do the touch up and out of frustration I tried a spot of Rustoleum glossy black. It was almost perfect but yet too glossy so I got a can of semi-gloss. That did the trick. I was able to grind the ding down better with a Dremel, used Bondo to build it up, sanded flush, primed and then over-sprayed lightly with the Rustoleum. Then I wet sanded with 3000 grit, polished and then waxed the entire rim to blend it out. Yes a lot of elbow grease but a detail shop would charge $125.00 for the whole wheel and I really only spent like 3 x 30 min sessions and you cannot tell the difference. If you farm it out to a good shop, just save your money and get your newer, wider alloys you are saving up for in the first place. Just my 2 cents and.... I like to get something for my money like most people do.
 


XanRules

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I'm attempting a similar project this weekend (weather permitting) with eBay touch up paint. I smacked the curb so hard trying to avoid a pedestrian that I cracked the clear outside of the scuff. Will post results.
 


PunkST

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I say strip them to bare aluminum and have a shop polish them. Be the first with full polished oem wheels.
 


CSM

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I'm probably going to do a full restoration on my set of OEM silver wheels. I'm moving to OH and am thinking about mounting snow tires on them. I'll make sure to post updates once I get around to it
 


TyphoonFiST

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I'm probably going to do a full restoration on my set of OEM silver wheels. I'm moving to OH and am thinking about mounting snow tires on them. I'll make sure to post updates once I get around to it
Just get them powder coated a color of your choice!
 


XanRules

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Alright, so I am just not handy with bondo and didn't want to strip away all the clearcoat and re-do it, so I just sanded everything smooth and hit it with touch up paint. There's a seller on eBay who sells color matched paint - I don't have the specifics handy at the moment but the Ford paint color is "Ebony" and it was like $10. It's a perfect match for the black wheels. It'll hold me over until I kill these tires, at which point I'll buy new wheels too.
 


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