# Powdercoat & Wheel people. HALP.
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [August 12, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233 "2012-08-12T17:19:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@sobo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sobo)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/1 "2012-08-12T17:19:43Z")
Howdy.
So, I don’t know what has been up with me lately. Ever since I bought my VW I’ve been buying wheels like crazy.
During this weekend while smoking some meth and wearing skinny jeans I decided it was a good idea to drop $2000 on some 18 x 10 +50mm CCW classics for my RX7 (Yum.)
However, there is a problem.
The centers are ANODIZED black.
I hate black. I have a black car, and black on black looks like shit IMO. I would have much preferred polished. I stupidly assumed that I could blast the paint off the centers.
So, what are my options inorder to bring these back to looking polished? I was thinking powder coat, but I am not sure if it’ll look right.
Any advice is much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/2 "2012-08-12T17:35:02Z")
U can strip them and polish them. It’s not fun
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### Author:  [@sobo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sobo)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/3 "2012-08-12T17:41:59Z")
> [@nitroinsane](#):
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> U can strip them and polish them. It’s not fun
You can strip anodized aluminum? Doesn’t the anodizing process actually soak color into the relatively porous aluminum?
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### Author:  [@Bull49](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bull49)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/4 "2012-08-12T17:57:38Z")
Without actually knowing for a fact, I thought you couldn’t strip anodization, which is a word I think I just made up.
That being said, I don’t see why you couldn’t just powdercoat over it.
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### Author:  [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/5 "2012-08-12T17:58:35Z")
I’d just eat a Snickers, and bolt them on.
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### Author:  [@ieatpaint](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ieatpaint)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/6 "2012-08-12T18:03:27Z")
I can get you pink spray paint. I think with enough beers we can make them look good. Or at least different than they are now but be more drunk that we started.
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### Author:  [@sobo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sobo)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/7 "2012-08-12T18:04:43Z")
Well, I just learned you can strip anodized coating with greased lightning. Werd.
Anyone know any expert polishers?
And can you annodize a clear coat over the polished metal to protect it?
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### Author:  [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 6:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/8 "2012-08-12T18:24:09Z")
U can sand them. It’s going to start real course
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### Author:  [@GV1390](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GV1390)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 6:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/9 "2012-08-12T18:56:13Z")
Ask the 6speedonline guys.
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### Author:  [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/10 "2012-08-12T19:36:44Z")
Get in touch with WheelFlip. You’ll have to tear down the wheels and send the centers to the west coast, but they do top notch work. (Chemical strip + Polish or paint or whatever you want).
They took my old Kinesis centers from this:
To This:
[http://wheelflip.com/](http://wheelflip.com/)
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### Author:  [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2012, 7:54pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/powdercoat-wheel-people-halp/225233/11 "2012-08-12T19:54:06Z")
If you anodize a polished finish it no longer have a “mirror like” finish. Anodize actually “etches” the surface (on a micro level).