Curb damage! Before and after pictures

[Twitch]

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So yea, I got distracted for a second and I went over a curb in a parking lot and damged my driver side front rim.

So I decided to try to fix it. I can't make it worse by trying to fix it right?

This is an old scratch the rim had when I bought the car

BEFORE


SANDING


AFTER


That scratch was no biggy, but this one, this is the one I just made last night. As you can see, I hit it pretty hard even though I was going idle speed.

BEFORE




SANDING


AFTER


Pretty happy with results. I've never done this before but it came out great.

Only costed 7$ CAD for sanding paper but if you know a bodyshop, you can steal it from them

 

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tomustang

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$9 damn! for just samdpaper?

 

[Twitch]

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tomustang said:

$9 damn! for just samdpaper?

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Oops, just checked the bill, more like 7$ CAD for packs of 5 of 80 grit, 180 grit and 2000 grit.

 

streetstang03

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the dark side of the moon/home of the 1999, 2003,

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nice repair job man

 

DropTopPony

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thats a nice fix, now stop looking at a$$ when you in parking lots.

 

bryan0

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droptopponynj said:

thats a nice fix, now stop looking at a$$ when you in parking lots.

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lol, true.
By the way, do you work for Jersey Fresh? I'm a produce guy at a food store and we get boxes with your avitar on them all the time.

 

DropTopPony

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bryan0 said:

do you work for Jersey Fresh? I'm a produce guy at a food store and we get boxes with your avitar on them all the time.

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haha no, Jersey Fresh isn't a company...its a Motto. New Jersey is the Garden State so they came up with that to promote our produce. Although many of the farms are now Million dollar estate home sites.....so the Garden State is losing its gardens.

 

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FalconGuy016

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All you did was sand that? I got curb damage too, and that looks great I want to do that, whats your process?

 

Yellow01GT

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Damn that turned out really well. I curbed one of my wheels on my 2001 GT, but never tried to fix it (it really wasn't that noticeable).

 

csledd

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for real, very nice job.. share your process!

 

[Twitch]

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FalconGuy016 said:

All you did was sand that? I got curb damage too, and that looks great I want to do that, whats your process?

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First, I used 80 grit sandpaper and sanded the area down until it's smooth with no pits and no scratches. The surface will be rough but it's normal. Thenn I continued sanding to blend the damaged area with the rest of the rim.

After, I used 180 just to polish the area.

Last, I wetsanded the area using 2000 grit sandpaper. Then I washed the rim, use rim polish to polish out the area and voila!

Pretty easy and much cheaper than to get it fixed at a shop or to buy a new rim.

 

CanadaStang

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That'll teach ya to let your girlfreind drive

Nice job, from the pics I'd swear there was never any damage!!

 

quiksilver98

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That's brilliant!

 

wanta5.0

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I am going to do that to mine.

 

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triggz

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Had no idea that kind of damage would come out with just sanding. Think I know where my spare time is going for the next few days.

 

Indiana

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That really does look great. Nice work.

 

trinity_gt

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One of my Bullitt rims looks exactly like your top pic. Exactly. I'll have to try your technique 'cause your results look amazing.

I'm going to go one step futher though and, after the "repair", shoot the spot with a misting of clearcoat (masking the rest) in an effort to help prevent oxidation.

 

AmBo

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Too bad you can't do this on chrome wheels.

 

BlueRuckus

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WOW! That came out great!
I will trying that on mine this weekend, for sure. Thanks for posting the info.

Hey Trinity, where would you get clearcoat for that?