refinishing/painting Fuchs?

Anyone know how to redo fuchs? I am thinking of redoing a set I have. I don't mind the long hours it will take. But is it possible to do and still be good? Original Fuchs have the anodized coating, I will never be able to replace that. Can you remove curb rash? The ones I want to redo are black centers and polished lip. Is this possible? What paint do you use?

I tried searching the site first but no luck.

Thanks
Shawn

Did you see the tech articles on this site?

http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/mult_wheel_refinish/fuchs1.htm

and

http://www.pelicanparts.com/techarticles/mult_wheel_refinish/fuchs2.htm

Chris.

Shawn,

There was a thread I started about the black Fuch centres being matt or satin finish.

Basically one of my wheels was red & the black paint took fine.
So a repaint should be even easier.
Finding satin finish red paint is probably the hard bit.

My wheels came up really well.
Standard rattle tin paint seems to stick perfectly well to the lightly keyed anodising.

Give it a go, I was going to have my wheels prof. refinished, but decided to try myself first.

If it doesn't work out the money lost is minimal, I would try just one wheel first.
Curb rash removal is for the professionals only. The wheel will need to be anodised again after the kerbing damage has been polished out.

JG '76 2.7 911S

Thanks guys Chris those posts are mainly on polishing so... But still helpful. Jon I am painting them black so I shouldn't have much of a problem finding the paint.

Thanks again

Shawn

Hi Davis!
I have removed the anodize lip of my fuchs, and the came out great. I have now a "chrome" lip. Here are the steps. First start with a 80 grade sand paper to remove the first coat,then a 160,to take the scratches out, then a 260, and a 400. Then polish with a compound, now take water 600, clean it and polish again. It should the job. Figure about 4 hours of work per wheel. Good lock.
Daniel