fixing scratches on rims
#3
Not much help....
If you need to do it yourself, the hardest part is finding matching paint - it is out there, you just have to search the touch-up aisle.
Even without removing tire from rim, it's pretty easy. Obviously take the wheel off, mask off the rubber, and clean up the damage.
Gently file off the high points - take it easy, a file cuts the aluminum easily.
Then fill the low points with a tiny bit of body Bondo, smoothed to the curve of the rim. Once over again with a fine file, let it cure some more, then paint.
S
Even without removing tire from rim, it's pretty easy. Obviously take the wheel off, mask off the rubber, and clean up the damage.
Gently file off the high points - take it easy, a file cuts the aluminum easily.
Then fill the low points with a tiny bit of body Bondo, smoothed to the curve of the rim. Once over again with a fine file, let it cure some more, then paint.
S
#5
Use some JBweld or some other kind of liquid aluminum type mix that you can combine the two tubes (just like you mix epoxy glue) and fill the curb rash. Sand it after drying and mask....paint with some spray paint (that silver wheel paint at Walmart is almost a perfect match)....then when dry, use some paint polishing compound to smooth it out. Unless you know it, you will hardly be able to tell it's there....
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