Anyone ever had there chrome wheels painted black?
I am thinking about it getting that done

 

I convert chrome wheels to black all the time around here, save yourself some grief later on, get them powdercoated. It will last longer and be easier to clean. It takes just about the same prep as painting. If you want to do it yourself that will make it even better. You can get a powdercoat gun from sears or ebay for $99, the powder is about $10 to 20 for enough to powdercoat over 10 wheels. then then just clean really really god and scuff them with 180 to 220 wet. unless you have monster wheels they will fit into a normal sized oven, i can fit 10 x 17 in mine. Tehy do make a high temp tape that will let you mask off areas you want to stay chrome if you desire. So for 3 hours work you have awesome wheels you did yourself!!!!

 

If you go offroad with your truck, standard paint wont last long, powder coat will take alot more beating.

3hrs is very optimistic on 4 rims. Depending on rim design, can take up to one hour each rim just to get the powder to flow, 20min cure, another hour or more to cool down each rim.

After you have cured powder coat, oven cant be used for food btw.

Eastwood has all the supplies you could want. They are pretty fast to deliver Ive found.
http://www.eastwood.com/hotcoat-powder-coating.html

 

Been a few of the 3rd Gen crowd used Plasti-Dip on theirs. I have to admit that every one I've seen have looked pretty damn good.
Couple nice things about using the Plasti-Dip is that there is no prep other than washing the chrome. Will stick to the slickest surfaces. It's under $6 a can and you can do all four wheels easily with 2 cans even if you put about 4 coats on per wheel. The texture is somewhere between a flat black paint and bed liner.

I took a page from there book and did the cheazy looking gray plastic cladding on my Jeep with it. Has held up very well. My rock rails get kicked and bumped every time I get in the thing and with just 2 coats not a scratch in it...

Heres a b4 and after of my Jeep:

 

Just found one of the guys threads in 3rd Gen, here is a b4 and after pic of his wheels:

 

Those dont look too bad except for the fact he should have slpurged more and used a lot more masking tape and paper to cover the tires.

 

Price is right thats for sure, looks good too, may try that on my 4x4. The bumper tops have faded. Where do you get it, never seen it up here?

 

It's available down here at Lowes, Ace Hardware and Home Depot. Retail on it is like $8 a can which is about what Lowes and Ace prices it at. For some reason Home Depot kicks their a$$es on it and sells it for $5.89.

It's that stuff that's been around since at least the 70s that you dip your metal handle tools in a can of to give them rubberized grips. I dunno when they started making it in a spray can, but recently it's the rage.

It's available in 8 colors, but I've only seen HD carry it in black and yellow, Lowes and Ace only carry it in black.

You can also Google it, it's available all over the place online and in all 8 colors.

I plan on getting a can of red here before too long. My winch mount that I color matched last year is starting to get chipped from road debris and I will do the red Plasti-Dip thing on it rather than just the Dupli-color next time for a bit more durability...


http://www.plastidip.com/

 

At my shop we have painted hundreds of sets of wheels for all types of rigs, on all finish types. Plasti dip works great with the least amount of prep work. but 90% of the time i shoot them with single stage paint. just clean the wheels real good, then scuff them with a scotch brite pad and then etch primer, and single stage paint. that is a very durable set up.

the primary downside to powdercoating is that you have to dismount the tires. other than that powdercoat is always the best way to go.

 

good input thanks Ill let ya know what I do.