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Crofter

Member Since: 19 Feb 2015
Location: Peterhead
Posts: 169

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 USW Baltic Blue

Paint blasted off wheels

I blasted of the Landrover cream paint when pressure washing my defender wheels at a garage. There seems to be a dark blue paint underneath. Should I get the wheels re-spayed, I popped in to a powder coating shop but they only do a limited range of colours, is this normal. Has anyone else had this problem?

30th Jun 2016 6:58pm

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8578

Whether you decide on paint or powder coat then preparation is the key.

Our local powder coaters can do any RAL colour, price is about £45-50 per wheel and special effects are about £5-10 extra per wheel.

There are powder coaters and then there are good powder coaters. I know one firm I will use locally and a couple of local powder coating firms I will not use.

Brendan

30th Jun 2016 8:09pm

alby

Member Since: 25 Dec 2014
Location: The Shire
Posts: 159

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Santorini Black

Sadly it's normal for a defender, whether it should be the case or not...

Steel wheels on mine did the same, only lasted till they were a year old, paint started to fall off in sheets and they were rusting too. swapped them for alloys since it's not a working vehicle and they suit it better.

30th Jun 2016 10:04pm

Crofter

Member Since: 19 Feb 2015
Location: Peterhead
Posts: 169

Thanks I will ask around see if I can find a powder coater to do the wheels.
I did think about alloy wheels but am put off as I had alloys on a discovery, which always seemed to suffer
from tyres loosing air when the vehicle got older. However I did keep the discovery over 10 years.

1st Jul 2016 6:36am

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8578

Have noticed tyres slowly losing pressure on old wheels and tyres combinations.

Could not decide if it was a case of corrosion just inside the tyre bead just forcing bead open allowing air out slowly, or if it was a case of the tyre rubber age hardening not being as flexible.

Had a set of old tyres about 55-8 years old which was prone to loosing pressure/ punctures. Replaced tyres and problems disappeared.

So in my mind a good reason to retire old tyres..

Brendan

1st Jul 2016 8:47am

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