Wheel paint
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Marshall V. Daut
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One quart properly mixed should be enough for five wheels. If you have six wheels, it would be best to use a light-colored primer, like light-grey instead red oxide. Red is more difficult to completely cover if you are running low on paint. Bare spots will be more noticeable if you use red oxide primer. For a really deep shine and to impart additional protection, spray a catalyzed clear coat while the single stage Cream is still tacky.
I have painted several sets of 19" wheels Tacoma Cream using PPG's Concept paint. It covers very well so that it is not necessary to apply several layers of color, as is needed with most water-based paints these days. Concept is now defunct because it was too good and lasted too long, but maybe a local paint supplier has enough left-over Concept paints so that he/she/it can mix a quart of Tacoma Cream. Attached is the PPG formula for Tacoma Cream, should you need it for mixing or for cross-referencing.
Marshall
I have painted several sets of 19" wheels Tacoma Cream using PPG's Concept paint. It covers very well so that it is not necessary to apply several layers of color, as is needed with most water-based paints these days. Concept is now defunct because it was too good and lasted too long, but maybe a local paint supplier has enough left-over Concept paints so that he/she/it can mix a quart of Tacoma Cream. Attached is the PPG formula for Tacoma Cream, should you need it for mixing or for cross-referencing.
Marshall
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Marshall V. Daut
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Hmmmm...Everything an automotive paint shop needs to mix PPG's Concept Tacoma Cream (Creme) is on that list. Maybe they can't mix Concept due it being obsoleted and they want to cross-reference the color to something they can mix with modern water-based paint? I can supply an old Ditzler number for DAL #1245, although this paint is even older than PPG's Concept. This formula comes from the 1960's "Antique Ford Repaint Manual" that was discussed last week on this forum. Maybe your paint store can use this number to cross-reference to a modern paint equivalent? If so, please let us know what brand paint and number is closest to Tacoma Cream. Thanks in advance for this favor from all of us, who dearly miss Concept paint.
Marshall
ADDED: "DAL" stands for "Ditzler Acrylic Lacquer". You do not want to spray lacquer on wheels. Use only an enamel of some flavor. I supplied this DAL number for cross-reference purposes only. Perhaps a PPG dealer can mix a small sample in DAL (lacquer is generally quite cheap) and then use a color matching gun to find the nearest modern equivalent that they can mix.
Marshall
ADDED: "DAL" stands for "Ditzler Acrylic Lacquer". You do not want to spray lacquer on wheels. Use only an enamel of some flavor. I supplied this DAL number for cross-reference purposes only. Perhaps a PPG dealer can mix a small sample in DAL (lacquer is generally quite cheap) and then use a color matching gun to find the nearest modern equivalent that they can mix.
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Marshall V. Daut
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ModelA29
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Touch of this touch of that. The kid in the paint store will be lost. He'll be asking how many cc's or grams is a touch. It's all computer now and the formulas don't translate. I don't even think paint stores have books of chips that you can match anymore. It all whatever the car is and what the paint code from the door tag is.
Marshall V. Daut
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"It's all computer now and the formulas don't translate."
Ain't modern technology great? It's made life sooooooooooooo much better for those of us with one foot firmly planted in the past. Yup - another sharp stick in the eye.
Marshall
Ain't modern technology great? It's made life sooooooooooooo much better for those of us with one foot firmly planted in the past. Yup - another sharp stick in the eye.
Marshall
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No, the kid will be asking the make and model and what’s the VIN number.
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john in illinois
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That is a good idea. We took a paint scraping from the wall of a room and had it matched. There were areas on wall with no paint. We painted the bare areas thinking we would need to repaint whole wall.the mixed paint matched so well you could not see difference. Good technology.
John
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rotorwrench
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I think PPG still has a recommended fleet type acrylic urethane as a replacement for Concept. It might be one of the Delfleet coating systems but I'm not sure. Sherwin Williams has Jet Glo and Acry Glo and I have had good luck with them. Axalta still has an industrial fleet Imron type too but a person needs to find a local automotive paint supply outfit that handles one of these or a least Martin Senour supplier since I think they still have a single stage urethane type. It's getting harder to source some of this stuff in the modern era largely due to EPA regs making them cost a lot more to produce. Prices on this stuff are way out there so be prepared.
Colors of the type used back in the day were mixed with specific pigment color types of a product that also went by the manufacturer's own proprietary names and all that has changed many times since then. This makes a lot of old folmulas moot. A person has to find a color example for what they want in modern chip charts to get close to what you need. I used to have the old high end brands of finishes color charts but all those old Imron and Deltron products are long gone. Even the Concept charts are no longer viable.
Colors of the type used back in the day were mixed with specific pigment color types of a product that also went by the manufacturer's own proprietary names and all that has changed many times since then. This makes a lot of old folmulas moot. A person has to find a color example for what they want in modern chip charts to get close to what you need. I used to have the old high end brands of finishes color charts but all those old Imron and Deltron products are long gone. Even the Concept charts are no longer viable.
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J Franklin
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You have a good paint to use.