My wheel paint is peeling, sounds like this is pretty common? Anyways, I am wondering if anybody has ever powder coated or painted your oem wheels black? I have the Ibis white with really dark window tint and I think black wheels would look sharp and stealthy. What causes the OEM paint to peel? Besides curbing it when parking?

 

Assuming you're talking about your rims - I haven't heard of the paint peeling off of them before. I have, however, heard of guys covering their rims with plasti-dip. Search YouTube for some videos, as I've watched a couple on there from dipyourcar.com (or something like that).

I've always been curious about powdercoating my rims black as well.

Whatever you do - share pictures.

 

Not sure if I call it peeling. It looks like dull spots on my rims. I was thinking of either powder coating or black chroming my rims. I have seen the plasitic dip and some end up looking great. My understanding is if you drive in areas with bad weather (snow, ice) the coating breaks down faster than say in California, Florida, Texas, etc...

 

I'll have to watch those videos. I think its the paint, maybe its the clear coat on there or something? It was doing it when I bought it a little over a year ago. I'll snap some pics of what I'm talking about on my rims and post them here later tonight. And I'm up in WA state where there is snow and de-icer and stuff to cause havoc like this.

 

I suggest the platidip to see if you like the car with black wheels. It's temporarry if you don't like it you can remove itt. I did mine many months ago and it has really held up. It took a plain jane silver s4 and really made it stand out.