lmk which is better bruin: wet mess or sanding 5 hrs.
pretty obvious youll take the wet mess but just lmk how it goes with that bc im about to change my wheel color.

 

from what i can tell you, ive painted my rims twice and sanding takes a long time prob about 8 horus (including breaks) to do all 4 wheels and it still had some paint on it,

 

i used aircraft paint remover on my enkeis. it ate through the rattlecan paint that the previous owner of my rpf1s had painted on within seconds, and continued to chomp through the enkei silver powdercoat that was underneath the bronze rattle-can paint within minutes.

with some

paint om nom nom

ew

win


Needless to say, it MIGHT be a bit overkill just to take off rattlecan paint, but that's your call.

 

whoa!, that looks brand new!
it wont eat through the tire or anything right

 

after seeing that definitely taking that route.

 

I'd paint over it, the paint just needs something to stick to.
Depending on how nice the original paint turned out (is it peeling, uneven, splatter, orange peel?), you could just go ahead and sand it just enough to rough the surface up, and not take it all the way down. Clean, dry, paint a light coat (or primer), let it dry, paint another light coat, let it dry, paint a final coat.

Now the most important part is, be sure to use clear coat. Just repeat the same steps as for painting. It usually turns out fine for me.

 

Come on man....im a aircraft structural maintainer aluminum is the most common metal i work with it takes time for it to rust than others but it will.

 

I'm sure you meant corrosion
Aluminum = corrosion

...only iron will rust