Can't shut me up now !!

[Baz]

My next job on my spider is the Cromadoras. Mine a pretty good, but that dull grey colour. Now I have seen on various motor shows owners giving their mags to the powder coater and out they come like new, all the little pits and wear and tear gone. Is it that simple ? can they take out and fill all these marks and scratches or is here another service involved.
Baz

[Exit98]

Baz,

Check out this link:

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic ... d3#p118714

John Erskine is the go-to guy for CD3's.

[So Cal Mark]

any defects will show through the powder coat. Just as with a paint job, the amount of prep will determine the final outcome

[katsi]

I'm sure you going to love the powder coating. I have CD3's on mine. They seem to be white when I got the car. Don't know if they were originally white or just old. I steel whooled (spelling) mine, washed with soap and water and added a few coats of scratch filler primer. I then painted them brilliant silver from a rattle can and they turned out really nice. Cost - under 10 buck.

[Baz]

Ah...so there is such an animal as scrtch filler primer ?? how does it work and does it stay in place, cause that is just about what i need.

[baltobernie]

Prep and finish the CD3 just as you would any other metallic surface. You can use body filler, primer, etc.

While the rattle-can paint job on wheels will work, the results you see on John's restorations are achieved with base-clear urethane paint, the same stuff used on modern car finishes. Magnesium is very soft, and there is a lot of detail in the CD3, so there's a tremendous amount of hand work involved; a small piece of sandpaper folded in half to get in to the crevices, and so on. What this means is that most of the labor can be done by you, and then an auto body shop can shoot the wheels ("Argent" is the color), or you can get them powder coated. Finished in these methods, your wheels can withstand the trigger-bottle wheel cleaner formulas you use on your modern car.