I want to take all my 2004 TT's wheels off this winter and have them sandblasted and powder coated. The rust is getting pretty bad, and I'm too lazy to clean and paint them myself.The local Les Schwab store will do them for $35 a wheel. I called a couple of dedicated shops, and they quoted me $55-$65 a wheel.I'm guessing that the dedicated shops will do a more thorough job, but I wonder if I really need to spend that much more. It's just a trailer, after all. I could buy new wheels for $55-$65 a wheel.Anybody been down this path?

Schwabs does powder coating?$35 sounds like a good deal if that's what you want to do.

webwrangler wrote:I want to take all my 2004 TT's wheels off this winter and have them sandblasted and powder coated. The rust is getting pretty bad, and I'm too lazy to clean and paint them myself.The local Les Schwab store will do them for $35 a wheel. I called a couple of dedicated shops, and they quoted me $55-$65 a wheel.I'm guessing that the dedicated shops will do a more thorough job, but I wonder if I really need to spend that much more. It's just a trailer, after all. I could buy new wheels for $55-$65 a wheel.Anybody been down this path?Not sure it is cost effective.My Discount will mount and ballance for free, if I buy the rims from them. They also have the best pricing I have found.

I’d just buy new wheels. Removing rust properly is not cheap, neither is powder done properly.Doing a half baked job will just hide the rust. Temporarily.

Les Schwab powdercoat is probably the same quality as a Les Schwab paint job, I would think. Were it me I'd just spring for new wheels.

Are we talkin Schwabs or Earl Scheibs?

Sandblasting and powdercoating: Les Schwab or dedicated shop

drsteve
Explorer
Jan 10, 2020
Les Schwab powdercoat is probably the same quality as a Les Schwab paint job, I would think. Were it me I'd just spring for new wheels.
Ductape
Explorer
Jan 10, 2020
I’d just buy new wheels. Removing rust properly is not cheap, neither is powder done properly.

Doing a half baked job will just hide the rust. Temporarily.
Huntindog
Explorer
Jan 10, 2020
webwrangler wrote:
I want to take all my 2004 TT's wheels off this winter and have them sandblasted and powder coated. The rust is getting pretty bad, and I'm too lazy to clean and paint them myself.

The local Les Schwab store will do them for $35 a wheel. I called a couple of dedicated shops, and they quoted me $55-$65 a wheel.

I'm guessing that the dedicated shops will do a more thorough job, but I wonder if I really need to spend that much more. It's just a trailer, after all. I could buy new wheels for $55-$65 a wheel.

Anybody been down this path?
Not sure it is cost effective.
My Discount will mount and ballance for free, if I buy the rims from them. They also have the best pricing I have found.
Grit_dog
Navigator
Jan 10, 2020
Schwabs does powder coating?
$35 sounds like a good deal if that's what you want to do.

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