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Hi

I would bet you didn't sell them to a 928 owner.....

All the best Brett

He has a project 928 that he is putting together, the wheels he has are badly damaged and he was keen on coming to view. He was happy with the condition and bought them.

Brett you need a reality check, this is a forum. This part is a for sale forum, therefore folk sell on this area wheels and tyres. You may think you know everything about 928s and whatever else your into, and personally thats great for you. However, you dont have or ever will have the final say when normal people are selling items on this or any other forum, no matter how much you try and put across that your decision is right. You may not like this, I dont personally care. Your posts on this thread have shown your pompous and snobbish views. My goal was to sell some slot 928 rims, that i had bought and taken the time to invest in having them painted after buying them with the anodizing stripped off. This I have done, although you have tried your hardest to make my sale ad end up a failure because you didnt agree with the price I was selling them at.

On forums people like you are regarded as trolls, you have no etiquette and even when these rims have sold your still going on.

Get over it, get over yourself and move onto your next post your about to spread your negativity onto. I apologise for any personal insult on the previous post.

As you say

All the best

Stu

Hi

I will keep this impersonal....

I have spent well over 20 years on the net, so I imagine I know a little more about "netiquette" than you do....

So to the impersonal technical reasons..-

There were several reasons I did not like your price....

928 slots should never be sprayed, for two reasons....one, 928 owners don't like them and prefer anodised (which is preference so you can ignore that) and two, the paint WONT STAY ON.....(If you don't believe me ask any pro sprayer what happens when you spray onto aluminum/magnesium, which is what those slots are made of....)

1, Badly sprayed...(if you don't believe me ..look CAREFULLY at your own pictures)

2, Overpriced (dont believe me...look on Ebay or in my workshop , where I would sell any 928 owner my spare set ...good nick (anodised) and decent tyres with around 5 mm of tread on all four...price to a 928 owner...£200 or less...

3, This site is about helping other Porsche owners, now I think that with my hundreds of posts I have done that, and all your few posts are about making money....

I think other posters, particularly 928 owners will read this thread and make up their own mind who is right about your price and wheels.......

All the best Brett

I don't know whether to join in or simply sit back and enjoy the show.

Brett, do you actually know any wheel refurbishing companies that do anodising?

This is actually a serious question, since I may be interested in getting mine done, but most places only seem to offer painting and/or powdercoating.

Hi

I am not sure if any of the wheel refurb companies do it as its a sort of "plating" process that the wheel manufacturers do while making the wheel...

It probably could be done again but I would think it would be VERY expensive....probably cheaper to buy new wheels...

On the subject of your wheels....if they are already anodised, the paint wont hold, as I said above...I seem to remember there is some sort of special etching primer they can use if you insist but don't think it works particularly well...long term...

The wheel refurb firms should know all this, but getting them to admit it is another matter

On my 928 , I put a set of 18`s from a 996 on at £100 for all 4.....fantastic grip and better handling by far...

All the best Brett

Anyone can re anodise wheels, a lot of tanks exist big enough to take wheels & items bigger if necessary. To strip the old finish you reverse the process e.g. make the wheel the cathode rather than the anode. The BIG issue is how you deal with damage. On a conventional wheel refurb you clean/blast the wheel, fill the dings with filler/plastic metal etc & then sand smooth & powder coat/paint & bake. With an anodised finished the repair has to be aluminium & although you can weld repair & then anodise the finish may change where the welding has been done due to the different molecular structure.

As for whether you can paint anodised wheels, of course you can, get a good surface key by sanding or blasting then etch prime & paint. Anodising is only a thicker coat of aluminium oxide.

frost auto's sell home anodising kits...

prob not enough for a wheel, but it'd be fun to do ya nuts

leave my nuts alone

You could try Mike at Fenwicks Alloy Wheel Refurbihing Centre in Northallerton (maybe a bit far from you though). Tel: 01609 774643.

I seem to remember him saying that he had found someone who could anodise wheels and was having a set of Fuchs done for a customer. (Mike is also a TIPEC member).

Thanks for the tip, but you're right - I was hoping to find somewhere a little nearer to Devon.

However, according to Jim(tr7v8) it's a relatively straightforward process:-



So maybe I should be looking for places that do anodising, rather than those that refurbish alloy wheels?

It's all a bit academic anyway - I've been thinking about getting the wheels done ever since I got the car, but never got past the thinking stage in five years of ownership

Hi

I think you not only need a big tank...I would imagine you need a LARGE amount of electricity.....like 3 phase as a minimum...I think....

So I doubt wheel refinishers would do it...maybe an engineering company would....

All the best Brett

There are hundreds of plating companies that will anodise all sorts of stuff for you. A lot of them specialise in aircraft parts and some of them are pretty big.. The problem with re anodising wheels is it will show every nick and scratch up so you would neet to polish and grind them all out. It takes between 4 and 12 amps @ 12V per square foot of surface to anodize and you need a lump of lead twice the surface area of your work. you also need a pan big enough to boil your work in to seal it. you could do it at home if you were really brave.. but I'd rather not have that much acid at home...
Ben..