How to Repair Curb Rash on any wheel rim

Hey guys so today I'm going to show you how to repair a kerb scuff on a wheel. This is the easiest way you can do it, you can do this at home. You don't even have to take the wheel off the car. Okay to start with we're going to repair the area with 80 sandpaper. Okay so we've sanded as much of the scuff as we can with the 80 sandpaper. Now we're left with some really deep gouges here from where the wheel hit a kerb or something like that. We'll have to use some sort of filler in these. Okay so we've cleaned the area down thoroughly in preparation for the fillers. Now we just want to concentrate on putting the fillers into the deeper scratches. At this stage it doesn't have to be perfect, the most important is to fill as much as the damage as you can. Okay so it's been about 30 minutes. A good way to check the fillers is hard is put your nail in the fillers. If it doesn't leave a print it's ready for sanding. Okay now that we've taken down the heaviest of the fillers with the 80 sandpaper we're going to move on to the 180 just to take out these heavier scratches so when we put the primer on the scratches won't show through. Okay so at this stage we're happy the damage has gone from the wheel so now we're going to scuff the rest of the wheel to prepare for the next coat You can get Scotch Brite in your parts store, it's very very cheap. If you've scuffed the wheel properly it should have a dull finish. Okay we're going to fully clean the wheel down, it has to be spotlessly clean for the primer coat. Okay so now we're going to start masking the wheel down for primer. We don't want to get primer on the centre crapper on the tyre so we're going to try and mask up or remove as much as we can. Okay and for my next trick, only joking, this is what we're going to use to mask off the tyre. Okay so normally if you're priming a wheel you'd use a gun like this but in this case for the video I'm going to use an air saw can. Okay so this is etching primer, we're going to start off with a light coat and then we're going to build up to a heavier coat. Okay that coat has dried, now it's time for a second coat. Okay so that's dried now for about 30 minutes. If your wheel doesn't look perfect you can give it a light rub of 800 sandpaper, wet and dry sandpaper, but mine looks fairly good. I'm going to put the silver coat on top. Okay so at this point the wheel is starting to look really really good, we'll just let this dry off for a while and then we'll hit it with a coat of clear coat. Okay so the clear coat really is the hardest step, especially with an air saw can. My advice is to start with a really really light coat and just be careful of runs. If you hammer it on real hard it will run, so start off with a light coat and build up gradually. Okay so we'll pull off the mask and we'll see what it looks like. Okay guys these are the results, back to factory finish again. We need a big scuff up here, there's a curb mark along the top there as well, they're all gone there now. You can do this at home, it doesn't cost a lot of money, you just have to be patient. Thanks for watching guys.