Morris Minor Owners Club

I wonder if anyone can help me?

I currently have silver coloured rims, they are a bit tatty so I want to repaint white.

Would me giving them a really good sand, prime, spray (or brush?), then clear lacquer be sufficient? Or, would I need to get the wheels sand blasted? It's just that I do not have the money to spend taking them to a spray shop.

Advice would be much appreciated!

Many thanks.

It's entirely up to you how much time/effort/money you want to expend on wheels ! The colour used on earlier Minors is Old English White. Actually a 'creamy' colour, which I find is very close to Dulux Magnolia gloss! Others say 50/50 mix of Magnolia and White gloss is closer match. I just brush paint mine with the gloss paint - they are wheels after all, not works of art!

A tip posted by Willie a long time ago is if you are leaving the tyres on when painting to use a bead of washing up liquid round the rim of tyre then any overspill paint wont stick to the tyre.

I paid £10 per wheel on my Triumph to have them blasted. I then applied some rustkiller, a couple of coats of etch primer and then painted them with spray cans. Dulux just as good.

Sanding them by hand is a right royal PITA. Much quicker and easier to have them blasted IMHO.

Ken

Ken

where did you get your wheels blasted? and how long ago was it 10 sounds good value.

as for colour there is a discussion in the bodywork section..

http://www.morrisminoroc.co.uk/index.ph ... ic&t=25066

And for around £20 you can buy a spot blasting gun from ALDI if you have a compressor and do it yourself.

Brian

The Aldi route is also a very good option. I had mine done fairly locally to me (I'm in North London), I had them done a couple of weeks ago. Had to wait a bit but that wasn't an issue. Sure there must be someone locally to you. Ask around the local backstreet garages and the like.

Thanks for all your advice!

BTW, I would not reccomend using laquer on wheels, one little chip and it will start lifting......