Here is the pic, I figured that there were already so many tutorials online that it wasn't worth my time to do another, I am sorry. I was also fighting an incoming rain storm (welcome to Florida). Let me know what you think...

 

How did you prep them? Did you have a lot of corrosion ans curb rash to mend?

 

^clean them with soap and water, tape off anything that you dont want sprayed....then spray.

 

Yeah, pretty much that, except for the masking. Rubber tires are incredibly easy to get plasti-dip off of. I keep the tire on the car and rotate it between coats, to make sure and get all the surfaces. Even coats, drive back and forth between to get entire wheel. Wait 24 hours, use a hard object to rub the plasti dip off of the tires. Take your time, allow 1/2 hour between coats and make coats light, not heavy. It takes about 8-10 coats of the base coat and 4-6 coats of the metalizer.

 

Lookin' good !!!

Yeah, that's a big improvement. Charcoal rims and tinted windows nicely accent the white TL.

 

I recommend putting a layer of wax on before plasti dipping, it'll make the peeling process a whole lot easier

 

A couple questions for you please: I get the wheel prep, but I guess I'm more concerned with curb rash and oxidation on my wheels. Do I sand out most of the rash and oxidation before applying the plasti-dip coating or is it thick enough to hide those imperfections? What about lug nuts - leave them be? If you paint them, any time you change or rotate tires won't they get bunged up? Same goes for wheel weights - paint them too? My 99 has some bad curb rash and oxidation from previous owner. I also need new tires. Thinking of waiting until I get the new tires to the tire store doesn't bung up the paint when they mount the tires. Thoughts?

 

^^^ Any pics of your rim's to better show the imperfections ?
IMO, you would want to try smoothing up the worst areas of the rash damage before painting.

 

Clean them well, the paint is thick enough after many coats to cover the oxidation and light curb rash. Deep curb rash will still be visible, but not noticeable. I have painted my lugs in the past, then picked the plasti-dip off with a small tool. The paint will come off when they change the tires, so do it before hand. The best look is when you have contrast, like black tires and chrome lugs against the color of the rims. The idea is to look professional. If you paint over everything it just looks like you spray painted your wheels. Hope this helped...

 

The lip is wavy because the tires were removed. Otherwise, it all looked the same. Its not that it was ugly, or that I did a bad job (its kind of hard to screw it up), its just I thought it would "pop" more than it did. Same exact color combo on my 4runner (which was silver, not white) and it looked much better...BTW it took about 30 minutes to completely strip all 4 wheels. The plasti-dip removed every single bit of dirt and crap, they almost look new...

 

looks pretty good.