I've plasti-dipped the wheels on my Jeep the last two summers. I'm wanting a more permanent coating now this summer. I was thinking of bedlining them or using some type of paint on them. I really like the matte black look and the look of bedliner. My only concern with the bedliner was the wheels balancing out correctly.

So, what is your all opinions? Should I bedline my wheels or use a type of paint? And if you say paint, which brand/type do you recommend?

I wanted something very durable that I can pressure wash the salt off of in the winter.

 

I like the look of bedliner as well and will be doing my wheels quite soon. I did the wheels on my '07 bmw and loved the paint and the way it came out. Very durable as far as pressure washing (2300 psi), no problems. I did three coats of color and two coats of clear. Hope this helps.

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Thanks for the input. I looked at Duplicolor but they didn't have a matte black finish sadly.

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that sucks! I really like the way it lays and had very good coverage.

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I'd personally use paint over bedliner. I just bedlined my bumper and rails and the stuff is pretty thick. I can't imagine it would be very good for the wheel balancing. Even if you balanced it, a scrap on the wheel or a chunk coming off with contact off road could now make the wheel out of balance due to the weight of the bedliner. Just my guess.

I painted the wheels on my TJ, don't remember what I used but it was blueish I think with a big picture of a wheel on it. It was one of the popular brands and it stayed on for a couple years with just a little rust poking through here and there.

 

Did you use primer under it?

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Take them off. Dismount the tires and have them powder-coated. Do it right. Or don't do it.

 

Wops, yes I put primer down on it as well. I masked off the tire by using index cards.

EDIT: Just saw the picture that LordV8R posted. That was the stuff I used. Painted it on a Saturday, let it dry into Sunday and mounted it back up. The TJ's had steel wheels which is the cause of a bit of rust over the couple years. We have heavy salted and graveled roads up here for winter and worked great.

 

Yeah I don't know about that. For what the factory wheels look like, they are nothing special. Having the tires unmounted, wheels powder-coated, then remounted, would cost more then the cost of the wheels. If they were aftermarket I'd say to go powdercoat them, but for the OEM wheels spending 50 bucks in paint and a couple hours on a saturday can't be beat.