Ray -
Did you end up painting, powder coating or just plasti-dipping your wheels? It looks like a powder coat job from the pictures... I'm tempted by the ease of plasti-dipping, but am worried that I'll be touching them up every other week with the rocks around here. On the other hand, at least I could touch them up... I'm worried that if I powder coat and scratch/gouge the wheels, then I'll have some nice shiny silver showing through the black powder coat with no way to fix it. Just wondering what you opted for and what your thought process was? As far as the gorilla lugs, did you get the "75148RBC" lugs (the ones listed as black Range Rover lugs on their website)? Thanks!
I went with Plastidip, take a look at page 19 of this thread-should be a lot of pics of the process but it was fairly straightforward, even leaving them on the truck to do it:
-clean the wheels good.
-mask the tire, I used post it notes tucked between the rim lip and the tire and then taped those down.
-use plastic bags to mask the brake rotor/brake caliper
-pop center caps and mask the inside of that with something too (I wanted to paint my center caps to match, but didn't want them fused to the wheel with plastidip
-light coats, esp the first one, and then build from there. I watched several u-tube videos and then tried to be patient. I also used 1 can of dip/wheel (and 1 can of smoke/wheel b/c of the affect I was trying to achieve-if I was doing this in the US I'd get the anthracite and not deal with the smoke darkening the primer-esque gunmetal) and then a couple coats of glossifier.
I am somewhat worried about the durability but the wheels weren't perfect anyway. If I was driving a RRS I'd do powder coat b/c I'd want her to be pretty, but the end state for this truck is she'll work for a living and thus repainting the wheels as necessary is no biggie to me.
The lugs are exactly the part number you noted; they should be here in the next few days and when I get back from an upcoming trip I'll do a full review of those in case anyone wants to see what the $100 gets you before pressing buy it now!
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Ray
BTW; at some point my truck will be back in your neck of the woods this summer-assuming the DoD shipping folks don't lose her amidst my PCS back to NoVA!
