Deciding to powder coat vs. paint your wheels is an important one.
Your wheels bear the brunt and weight of your vehicle, so it's not a choice that should be taken lightly. Taking care of your wheel correctly helps eliminate downtime and ultimately protects your vehicle, driver, and your business.
Painting is a low-cost and well-known method for coating your wheels, but in reality, it leaves your wheels vulnerable to corrosion. Prone to scratching and chipping, paint is a short-term solution, causing unnecessary corrosion to your wheels and leading your vehicle to be taken off the road again and again to get its wheels repainted. This also proves to be costly due to the repeat application, despite the initial savings. Another factor that adds to the long-term expense is that painting does not shield the wheel, causing wheels on the road to wear down more quickly without protection.
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Watch the webinarIt's important to know that powder coating does more than add color and gloss to a wheel: it creates a shield. The powder coating process uses advanced technology to create a more durable finish than simply painting. To see how powder coating creates stronger protection than painting, it's helpful to understand the refinishing process:
Steel has a high degree of durability and resistance to rust treated with powder coating. This heavy material is a perfect solution for wheels used in more demanding applications because it offers exceptional longevity when given a finishing treatment to stave off corrosion. Powder-coated steel is highly resistant to rust, so it should not develop red streaks or rust patches. Powder coating also improves the appearance of steel, lending it a smooth, finished look.
Meanwhile, painting provides more color options and is easy and cost-effective, but it sacrifices the durable shield offered by powder coating. However, painting wheels is far easier and less expensive than the complex process of applying a powder-coat finish. Paint is a quick solution, while powder coating rims is a premium option that allows you to bake on a long-lasting protective layer.
Powder coating for steel wheels is the most beneficial choice for wheel longevity since paint is far more susceptible to chipping and being scratched, leaving the bare metal exposed and vulnerable to rust. The more involved process used in powder coating can reach difficult crevices on a wheel that are harder to cover with a basic paint application.
Powder coating truck wheels yield a professional appearance, corrosion resistance, and the natural longevity of this rugged finish. When you're weighing powder coat versus paint, there's no question that powder coating is the best choice for providing wheels that can withstand many road conditions over a longer period of time.
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Another benefit of powder coating comes from the fact that it does not require any of the harsh solvents used in painting, making it far more environmentally-friendly. It also creates a more consistent, professional appearance since it is distributed evenly over a wheel's surface. Most importantly, powder coating extends the life of your wheels by thoroughly cleaning, coating, and defending wheels from corrosion.
The decision to choose between painting and powder coating could mean the difference between vulnerable, chipping wheels and protected environmentally-friendly ones. If you're ready to protect your wheels and get more out of your investment, shop our IMI powder coatings!
Be it on a car or motorcycle: Wheels are the eye-catcher on every vehicle. However, in addition to their aesthetic appeal, these parts also must withstand a lot of stress: Rain, ice and weather, road salt, UV radiation, aggressive cleaners, stone chips, etc.
The challenge is to combine function with a stunning appearance. Powder coating can be a solution! Powder coated wheel rims offer properties such as corrosion protection, weather resistance, chemical resistance, and impact resistance - combined with amazing colors, effects, and finishes!
1. Masking: To begin with, all surfaces that are not to be coated, such as screw holes and the stop surface, are covered. The valve hole is left out and used for earthing/suspension.
2. Tempering: Chemical stripping has caused liquid components to penetrate the casting and sandblasting has also opened up casting pores in the substrate. In order to prevent outgassing and thus craters and/or pinholes in these cavities, the workpiece is heated in the oven before coating at a temperature at least 20°C above the later specified curing temperature of the powder coating (curing window product data sheet). The duration depends on individual conditions - in general, however, the curing time of the powder coating is recommended for tempering.
3. Primer and Basecoat: For optimum corrosion protection, a primer is applied to the rim before the effect-creating layer. This is followed by the second coat in the desired color and texture. In practice, the primer is not fully cured before the basecoat is applied, but merely "gelled" (50-70% of the curing time according to the curing window). This increases adhesion with the next coat. It also saves process time and energy.
4. Clear Coat (optional): As the effect-giving pigments in powder coating are oriented to the surface, abrasion or the use of aggressive rim cleaners can lead to changes in the original appearance. We therefore recommend applying an additional layer of clear coat (3-layer system). Thanks to their good chemical resistance, acrylic or polyurethane-based clear coats are particularly suitable for a high-quality, road-washable, and winter-proof coating.
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