Rims cooked, sanding!

All in all, I spent 10 weeks at home thanks to Corona. What I have done with this time, you have already been able to read a blog about the cats that jut and jul are very happy with. Another fact was that the rims under my Toyota iQ were pretty bad, at the rear even worse than on the visible side. Aluminium does not rust, but it does oxidize and when it gets under the clear paint, the rims do not exactly get nicer on it. I was faced with a difficult choice. New rims, re-branded rims, powder-coated rims, or do it yourself? The first two options were equally expensive, with all costs I would be between 230 and 280 euros if I had them powder-coated. A new set of rims, which would also fit nicely under the iQ, would be between 250 and 350 Euro. The third option, doing it yourself, was by far the cheapest I didn't have much to do anyway. In fact, not entirely correct, because the fence was already half finished and the drawing for the cat run was almost finished. An order of multiple aerosols (primer, colour & clear lacquer) was made as well as a stack of sandpaper (grain 240 and 400, water resistant). Since we only have one axle support, the axle support has changed places every time and I was in terms of sanding, front work, spraying and clear paint per rim a day or 3/4 busy, also the weather was not easy. Yeah, the garden was my workshop for this job. Through Youtube videos I have seen that a set of playing cards is a good method for sticking your band and starting the painting work. But not before the sanding was done. I'm not going to discuss all 4 rims, but the process by rim will hopefully show you here, due to lack of good electrical tools, everything is done manually. The rims get rid of loose clear paint and also the adhesive tape. I did this first with a hard jet of water where a lot was already loosing at the back. Then started sanding with grain 120, which I still had in house. It became clear then that a set of work gloves would not be superfluous luxury. So the work gloves I used when placing the fence even applied when sanding. After many sanding at the front and a little less painstaking at the rear, it was time for cleaning, removing grease and sticking off the tires/rims. The grey primer covered nicely and was easy to apply, thin spray layers used and actually did not suffer from drips. It's not my hobby, but gradually with the four rims I got some skill in it. The gun metallic paint, silk shine, was my chosen color and a touch or two darker than the original paint color. Also this one was easy to apply. However, I noticed on one of the rims that I had not sanded one spot properly, the metallic particles showed the unevenness of that spot well. Well, that's if you look at it very critically, because the spot was right in the corner of one of the spokes, and I'm not a professional wheel doctor. So after a pinch of salt and two shoulders to pick up again continued work. The clearcoat is the hardest to apply, because it's hard to see where you left off. Like once a popular dating show on TV, I just encouraged myself, to Good luck! A small bonus next to the rims was adjusting my calipers. Adjusting can therefore be seen as in adjusting the color. With heat-resistant yellow paint, in a spray can, I have turned the claws into a striking appearance. It also helps that our iQ is equipped with 4 brake discs all around instead of just two front brake discs, which is common in the shopping cart segment. After all rims and calipers were done, the iQ, which I sometimes call Backpack, was fresh again and I can continue for a while... But next time I'll buy a new set of rims. (photos follow zsm)

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