Williams Speedline Wheel Refurbishment

We let Willy3ams explain how he refurbishes his Williams Wheels.

These techniques would equally apply tho anyone doing a DIY wheel refurb at home, without the advantage of a spray gun and compressor. This is by far the most proffessional job i have seen done on the Clio Williams Wheels. Spot on finnish, and has taken the trouble to get the correct colour! Top job!!

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1. Paint removal – Chemically stripping all the old paint by submerging the wheels in a chemical stripping tank. The wheels were then bead blasted.

2. Re-cutting the RIM – If like me you don’t want to spend ‘£20′ !! on having the rims re-cut by machine, i thought of an alternative solution that gets good results.
By using an electric sander with 120 grit paper i carefully went around the rim removing all the excess dinks and curbing whilst removing as little of the rim as possible. More will be covered on this later….

3. Etch priming the surface – To ensure good paint adhesion to the metal i used a 1k etch primer as a 1st coat.

4. Priming the surface – After 24 hours room temperature dry time i then primed the wheels with 2K High build primer. This stuff is very good to ensure the surface is smooth covering all the minute imperfections of the alloy.

5. Polishing and cutting the Rim – As i had no machine lathe to cut the rim. I thought of jacking up the car on both sides on my RT.

I then fixed the wheel refurbs to the car and put the car in gear to spin the wheels. I also popped the bonnet and pulled on the throttle cable to spin the wheels faster whilst i placed some 120 grit paper on the Rim. This gave the rims a consistant groove in the rim. */thumbs up*

6. Base coat using speedline gold R9312 – The gold paint I used is the offical Akzol Noble code supplied by Speedline Corsa. This code has been checked with Akzol Noble and the UK conversion is R9312.

When spraying I use a Devilbiss GTi HVLP gun its excellent for tops coats.

I also hang the wheels up when spraying as it avoids the dust.

7. cleaning the rim – After each coat of paint i cleaned the rim with paint thinners and a clean rag. Ready for the ‘Top coat’

8. Top Coat – Ensure the surface is dust free. My advise is top coat one at a time unless you have a professional spray room. Their’s too much dust floating about when spraying 4 wheels on top coat. Confused

I used Lessonal 2pac lacquer with fast hardener. drying time is less than 12 hrs.

Really be liberal with the spraying especially on the rim.