Wheel Repair - How To Repair Curb Rash / Road Rash - The right way

I have been repairing curb rash for the last 6 years and in this video I will show you how I do it. I have repaired thousands of wheels and made a great living from doing so. So well in fact that I was able to hire out the position, train it, and move on to powder coating. Let me know what you think, leave a comment and like the video as well as subscribe. Make sure to check out the links for things we use to repair wheels!
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[@RightNowPowderCoating]

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[@heavynumbertaco]

Howdy Dan. Glad to see there are men out there doing things the right way. Out here in Cali most of the mobile rim guys I see use rattle cans;it’s kind of depressing and pathetic. I’ve been doing mobile paint and interior repair for over 40 years. Back in the day when I repaired cracked dashes and dyed vinyl tops. Then painted plastic bumpers came along in ‘80 and it was on.Started working in a body shop when I was 18,got all my certifications by PPGand threw everything I could in a truck and went on my own when I was 20 to service dealerships. We both do things pretty much the same only getting the nano dressings off the wheels nowadays is kind of tough. I take cleaning a few steps further. I also use different silver and chrome effect paints too. Sometimes on the Ford rims one of the posters,which are painted and not actually chrome,I paint em black/clear/chrome/clear. I’ve gotten it down but man,I did a lot of learning. You can use a flat binder mixed with an ultra fine silver toner to help before clearing and blending your edges. Anyway I’m flapping my lips too much But on a serious note. Please Dan,even for your videos. Wear some safety glasses and a mask when you’re grinding those rims. Please. All that heavy metal you see on that rim is in the air and getting to your eyes and your lungs. Same goes for the heavy metals and isocyanates in your paint and clear. I’m very impressed with your work and especially your pride in your work. Respect us earned not given. I always said the only thing you truly have in this life is your name and your reputation. Don’t listen to the haters. Your repair will outlast those rims. But please protect yourself. Thats me sharing what I’ve learned going back to ‘72. Take care pal

[@freeshipping9643]

Nice friggin work my friend 💯. Appreciate the share & skills. Much success to ya brotha.

[@bbcala9719]

Nice job, where is your shop, I'm trying to find someone to do the same job, but the rash in only about 2 inches long and not very deep on the rim. But I want the professional job. It's hard finding those people

[@INTIREMOBILETIRESHOP]

Thanks for all you do and share. QQ- Where do we get the hyper silver from? What's the brand? Right now I remove the Duplicolor Hyper Silver from the rattle can to spray with my gun. Was looking to step it up a little.

[@brookefore4618]

How did you not get hyper silver overspray on the black inner paint of the spokes? And can you explain the clear “burn in” a bit more?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

We angle the gun away from the pockets, if you do get it on the black you can wipe it off with liquor thinner before clear. Burning the clear is done with a clear blender, it melts the overspray and edge of the new clear with the original clear.

[@brookefore4618]

Is there a consumer grade blender (rattle can) you’d recommend? I’m attempting a small repair on a satin gunmetal finish wheel and having a hard time blending/matching the satin.

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

@@brookefore4618 Satin in the color or the clear?

[@brookefore4618]

The wheel is a satin gunmetal Neuspeed wheel. neuspeedrswheels.com/products/neuspeed-rse52?variant=17301218311 I bought the color matched paint from Neuspeed and am air brushing the color onto the repaired (filled) scar. I’m having a hard time getting the satin finish to blend in. It’s either too flat from the sprayed paint, or it gets too shiny if I wet sand/buff. I think I’m going to have to top it with satin clear, but want it to blend with the rest of the wheel. Have had two local wheel places look at it an no one will touch it due to the color/satin finish.

[@veeb6970]

Right Now Powder Coating surely you were better off masking up the grey area and focussing the area on the diamond cut

[@hockinmatt]

Great video, thanks for sharing! Do you know if 2018 Ford Expedition Platinum 22” OEM “polished” wheels are coated or sealed? And how would you repair them? Ford offers a lot of polished wheels like these and when I inspect curb rash on them, they either don’t have clear coat or it’s hard to see.

[@integra8502]

How did you spray the silver on without touching the black ??

[@outdoorzone]

I subscribed...thought I already did! Ooops So there’s was no need to fill in any gouged grooves with any metal fillers? And would the wheel always need re-balanced?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

These were light so we did not fill them, we do not rebalance if we do not remove the tire.

[@mreightytwenty8709]

Great job mate, Can you tell me what mini gun and tip you are using...Thanks

[@kenjosi4822]

What silver paint did you use. Couldn't get the right name to find stock in the UK. Many thanks

[@xiewh02]

High quality content! have a question on clear, I had a similar rash repaired a while back, the clear applied over the repair area seemed a bit fragile and easy to flake off, which it did eventually, a small piece of clear came off when I swapped my tire, I went back to the wheel shop and they told me it was to be expected, and that the clear on OEM wheel was powder coated on as opposed to spray on paint, and if I want the durability of OEM then I would need to redo and powder coat the whole wheel.... can you please confirm if that is indeed the case or he was bullshitting me? thank you

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Yes and no, some wheels are powder coated clear and some are not. We do spot repairs all the time and rarely have issues. Unfortunately you get what you pay for and lots of our competitors charge far less but also dont care and just want to flip the job get the money and move on.

[@Clendmik]

Great job. Would you mind sharing what hyper color you use?

[@wheelsone6180]

Mind sharing where you buy those casters and spacers the tires are sitting on as well as the rollers please?

[@coltoncg]

My forged wheel scraped the curb today, not to bad but the lip is scraped , it’s black powder coated. Can just the strip be fixed? Or the whole wheel?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

unfortunately the whole wheel will need to be stripped and done.

[@patm2249]

Where are you located and does the work you perform on rim rehab, pass lease return inspections? What did the job you just demonstrate cost for 2 tone rim with partial rim scrapes?

[@thomasadmiral3401]

this work beautyfull just across the camera ...:) not polished the new and old lacker?

[@chrisfeltus590]

In the view you mention spraying something called 'Add Pro' if I am hearing you correctly prior to putting down clear coat on the rim. Do you have an amazon link to purchase this item?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Add pro is short for adhesion promoter, like bully dog

[@shaunoneill7672]

Are the tires deflated prior to starting the repair?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Deflated and bead broke so we d9nt damage the tire

[@mritorto1]

is it safe to drive with road rash

[@happychews8299]

Can you tell me exactly what silver paint you used? I'd like to get some

[@lorenzonico5999]

Hey man I need some help, I'm starting my own business and I can't find wheel paint anywhere, can help me out and tell where you get yours, thanks

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

We went to a local auto body shop and they made a kit for us for wheel silvers.

[@r.m.consulting6655]

can you explain what you mean by "burning in the clear" do you mean just going over it with a second coat of clear and overlapping it a little further into the repaired areas to mask the new coat of clear?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

It's a painter's term. They have clear blender solvant that melts the overspray clear into the old clear

[@claudecarlton5815]

How long before you can drive on the rim and then how long before you can wash your car

[@Andrew-dj1wd]

Can you clear coat the parts of the rim that you repaired instead of painting?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

We cleared them and then put a special effect paint over the clear which actually sinks a bit into the clear. It hides the hard edges the repair shows. You cN do a high polished, degrease and than clear but adhesion will be lacking.

[@ibsn87]

I was waiting to see this setup on a lathe and machine it back ever so slightly…. Hrmmm. The right way.

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Why watch the video if you know the "right" way?

[@ibsn87]

@@RightNowPowderCoating I don’t repair wheels for a living. I was just using my general machining knowledge and various other tooling skills sets to assume the “right way” would be to put on them on a lathe and skim the outer lip. I mean, there quite literally can’t be a more accurate way to repair a wheel… of course this would be costly and no doubt unnecessary. Hey, the job you did was satisfactory done with pride and care. It achieved the desired outcome with the intent to be a lasting repair…. To answer your Q however. I was looking for a video to send to my brother who’s wife scraped his rims - skimming my way through it, expecting to see something other then (yet another) hand sanding a machine of a round surface. Perhaps the right way and the best way are 2 different things. You can’t argue a lathe wouldn’t be the best way to repair a rim.

[@ibsn87]

Oh snap. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jITbiYafarSdl5I If yours is the right way, then what is this!? Exactly what I was expecting to see. ONLY because you titled your video the “right way”.

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

@@ibsn87 It would be the factory way for sure. You would actually need to weld material back in and then lathe it so the exact profile was the same, by sanding down the scratches smooth we take material out of the wheel. My right way was more in line with some other videos on KZbin where the person is using bondo, which over time will fail on a wheel. This is the typical cheep repair for a dealership, if you start looking at machined wheels you will start seeing tons of repairs as most guys do them cheap and just put a band aid on them. Machined wheels always either get curbed or chiped and get corrosion, both are typically fixed like I did it here but most wheel guys dont take the time to get them nice, they hit it with 80 grit, 200 grit and blast it with silver. To lathe every wheel would drive the cost up for repairs and dealerships wont pay it when some guy with a truck will make it look good enough for 50 bucks.

[@ajneubert9832]

What do you do when you get a wheel with tire shine all over the rim, sometimes prep cleaner just doesn’t seem to work.

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

We use straight purple power. Some time we clean the wheel 2 or 3 times. Can also us wax and grease remover.

[@herbertwaters1942]

Where are you located?

[@gfdia35]

How is all this effort cheaper than a new stock rim? I get it if it no longer exists or its some 2k rim but thats just some run of the mill infinity rim

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Most new rims are over 600, many over 1k. When I was repairing rims full time we could fix them in 15mins to 45mins each.

[@drivenimagecustoms6108]

Cool, I just did a video on hyper silver wheel repair, just posted today.

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Ill check it out, do you do a lot of wheel repair?

[@Andrew-dj1wd]

Can you clear coat without painting to get same result?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

No there will be a hard edge or line where the repair starts and ends, maybe in the future I can get a video showing this better.

[@glenward2339]

Thought it was going well up to the spraying part lol wheels gunna b covered in the silver even if u try to remove it then after the lacquer the repaired area will look okish n the rest of the wheel will b cover in overspray

[@ferniechavez9116]

Hi were you located?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

iowa.

[@charleshudson1884]

Can you restore my machined aluminium center caps

[@dastony1969]

How much does this process cost for 4 wheels?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

Depends on damage. 125 to start.

[@dastony1969]

Right Now Powder Coating is that what I can expect to pay per wheel?

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

@@dastony1969 per wheel thats what we charge retail

[@gtranquilla]

What is the adhesion promoter?

[@galvinwalls6253]

You sanded the rubber also, should have protected them.

[@sikandartire9390]

Sikander tyre

[@GenerationAI2024]

turn dow the music volume please... VERY annoying, when you speak and i cant hear you, because my volume has to be turned down for when you start your timelapse.

[@pavel330]

144👍

[@sotoshelby93]

No doubt that wheels peeling by now

[@RightNowPowderCoating]

hey now....maybe...but.......maybe not

[@newfieboy1947]

The audio is terrible.

[@johnblanton9969]

It sure gets annoying trying to watch one of your videos when you have to constantly have to keep turning the volume up and down, waiting on you to speak.. Why in the world do you feel the need to play that god awful noise (it's not even music) in between the times that you speak? Sheesh, it completely ruins your videos.