Steel wheel paint

[blkfordsedan]

You may try a body shop or Auto body supply house if you have one. Otherwise, you may have to order some on-line. The Eastwood wheel paint is an excellent recommendation and you can order it on-line as well. I also bought some of the Bondo black restorer but haven't tried it yet. I decided to use some special bumper coating paint from my local auto body supply place in Dark Charcoal (to be closer to the original factory color).

As for the window tint, depends on your local laws and how they enforce them. My car in the picture has 20% light transmission tint on all windows. The law here is 35%, but they don't enforce it. The tint has been on for 8 years and still looks great with no peeling or fading. I did it myself with the "premium" quality tint from Wal-Mart, and it only cost me about $40 total and an afternoon.

Good luck, and post pics when you're done!

[deathegg]

Eastwood (www.eastwood.com) has very good, albeit expensive wheel paints.

[dzip105z]

Nice looking Festy. I love the color! You can get special "wheel paint" at most chain parts stores. It will resist rock chips, brake dust, etc. better than regular paint. They also make a clear top-coat for added protection. I have been wanting to repaint my steel wheels in a little darker shade of silver. Mine are Ford Argent Silver, but they are too bright and look like they were painted with the old "bumper chrome" paint. Looks kind of cheesy IMO. I've been looking for a light metallic grey with a bronze tint like the Anthracite color on the Bullitt wheels on my '04 Mustang. I thought about using Dupli-color van & truck touch up paint in the large spray cans. That way I can find the perfect color and finish off with the clear wheel coating.

Thanks for the info, I have been lookink for DupliColor silver, trying to come as close as I can original, but we are in a remote area on an island and things are hard to find.
We have a Wal-Mart, Home Depot, a Kmart, I searched all of those y'day, nuttin.
We also have three NAPA stores and none of them carry the DupliColor paint, I'll keep looking, thanks for the advice.

A few years back I did a whole lot of detailing on GM cars, mostly Corvettes, Camaros, Novas,and Corvairs, did a lot wheel detailing on the GM rally wheels, used DupliColor rattle cans for all of that.

When we moved to the beach all of those hobby cars got sold.

The interior of my Festiva is like brand new also, only 49K grocery gettin miles on it, belonged to a neighbor of my son up in Dayton, Oh. he passed away last April and asked his daughter to sell it to me, $400.

Dressed the "gray" bumper covers today, used a product from Bondo, "Black Restorer", they look pretty good.

Wanna get the wheels painted while I look for alloy wheels, best case scenario, five spoke 12' alloys.

Supposed to get the windows tinted next week, any suggestions for color, degree of tint????

Thanks again.

Dave Z

[deathegg]

Yes, I used Dupli-color on my wheels, and put a clear coat over them too. They looked good for some time, but then the PA weather got to them, then the CA sun got to them. Also don't expect the clear-coat (if you do that) to hold up long; just the heat from the brakes tends to make it go south.

[blkfordsedan]

Nice looking Festy. I love the color! You can get special "wheel paint" at most chain parts stores. It will resist rock chips, brake dust, etc. better than regular paint. They also make a clear top-coat for added protection. I have been wanting to repaint my steel wheels in a little darker shade of silver. Mine are Ford Argent Silver, but they are too bright and look like they were painted with the old "bumper chrome" paint. Looks kind of cheesy IMO. I've been looking for a light metallic grey with a bronze tint like the Anthracite color on the Bullitt wheels on my '04 Mustang. I thought about using Dupli-color van & truck touch up paint in the large spray cans. That way I can find the perfect color and finish off with the clear wheel coating.

[dzip105z]

I am trying find out what is the correct silver color paint for the original stell wheels on a '90. Mine are in decent shape but need painting.
I wanna do it with a rattle can spray paint. I'm sure there are lots of guys out there that have done this?

Also what is the best bumper dress up product out there?

I used a product from BONDO today, 1st coat \, needs a 2nd coat tomorrow.
Looks pretty good.

Thanks

Dave Z