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Plastic wheel covers on steelies


Neto

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Our 2009 Journey is a base model, and we have the steel wheels.  The paint has peeled off pretty badly on the plastic wheel covers, especially the rear ones.  I have them off right now, and with the help of a small (electric) power washer was able to get nearly all of the remaining (bubbling) paint off of the first two.  I considered using chrome paint, but got the closest silver paint I could find.   I'm thinking of painting the background around the RAM either red, or black.  (Red because all of the background areas on my 46 Plymouth are red, red is the Ram color, it's bright, etc.  Black because the same emblem has a black background in other places, as it also does on my 2010 Caravan.)
So, any opinions?  (I also considered painting the Ram itself black, and the background red....)  A car guy that works at our local hardware store suggested that paint that you can peel off later, and says that even though you can get it off, it doesn't come off by itself, like going through the car wash.  I was figuring on using a small paint brush - used to have a steady enough hand to do some pinstriping with regular paint (not stickers).  Not too sure about now - that was a whole lot of years back.  (I would paint the whole wheel covers either red or canary yellow, but it's the "family car", meaning I only drive it to church services on Sundays - the rest of the time it's my wife's car.  The car is a creamy off-white, by the way.)

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The result:  (If I posted these photos here already, in another thread, my apologies.)

Painted the centers (black) by hand, with a # 2 camel hair brush which I had trimmed a bit to get more of a point.  Not anywhere near perfect.  I'm not as steady with hand work as I was back when I was 1/3 my current age.

 

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