I had a wild idea...

[Musick17]

that is pretty far out there. But I thought I would share.

What if... you have chrome rims and shrink some window tint onto them and clear coat it for protection.

Would it stick to the rims? Would it look like smoked rims? how ridiculous is this idea?

 

[Heavyfire14]

lol thats a random idea...

 

[Musick17]

I know it. Ive been working on fixin up some rims and then i started thinking about tinting my windows... then... they just kinda came together. I think I might try it on my stock wheels once I get my other ones mounted.

 

[Ranger Sport Honduras]

that will look really nice when the brake heat starts working on it lol

or sound funny when it starts peeling off while u drive.
have u ever drove a car where the tint was peeling off on any window? its a real pain.

 

[Musick17]

I have not. But if its under some real thick clear coat think it would still peel or crack? The only thing I can think of is that the heat my start to shrink it underneath the clear.
But who knows..

 

[Heavyfire14]

never know till you try!

 

[nine-teen91stxranger]

why not just buy a can of VHT nightshade spray paint and tint the rims that way? that stuffs almost like a candy black color.

 

[Musick17]

why not just buy a can of VHT nightshade spray paint and tint the rims that way? that stuffs almost like a candy black color.

Didnt know something like that exsisted.

 

[brinker88]

Duplicolor has a paint kit to make chrome wheels black chrome....turns out awsome as hell...3 stage process and its not cheap.

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/1/3/duplicolor-chrome

 

[Musick17]

Ill have to remember that. Im not really looking at trying to smoke my wheels. It was just a nuts idea I had. I tend to have quite a few...

 

[Tonka]

Do this first. Get something that's chrome plated and not flat, like a mirror housing or something... wash it up nice and strip any wax or polish off of it. Laminate it with some window tint and then clear coat it like you were talking about, and then find some way to attach it to the bottom of the truck somewhere. Bungees or something. Leave it there for a few months and see what happens when it gets crap flying at it.

Maybe make two "test pieces" and leave one sitting outside in direct sunlight for the same length of time and see what happens.

I wouldn't risk messing up good chrome rims for an unprecedented experiment like this.

Post your results here, because if this works, people would like to know. The technique might even get named after you.

 

[Will]

Flat things don't lay flat on surfaces with compound curves. When you design a boat for plywood construction, you use either, what is called multiconic development, which means that the boat hull is designed as a series of cones stacked together, as sheets of plywood will wrap around a cone, or a series of tangential planes, which is more slick, but harder to explain. The point being, you aren't putting that window crap on a wheel that was not designed to accept a sheet. A window was flat and was bent. A wheel was cast or forged into a form.

 

[Tonka]

It might work, it fhe window tint film will shrink when you point a hair dryer at it, like that stuff you put over your house windows in the winter. I don't know if tiny will shrink like that. Ive never messed with it.

But I do know that window tint will stretch or shrink at least to some degree because I've seen it on car windows that were not flat, or flat curves that only bend in one direction. I've seen them on "wraparound" rear windows.

Example, the rear window of an '86 Mercury Capri. I used to have one. 4 cylinder, RWD, fun car to drive in snow. Anyhows, the rear window was curved in two directions, being convex in some areas. And it had a light tint on it. To the best of my knowledge, the only difference between this '85 Capri and the '86 I had was the fact mine had the 3rd brake light in the middle, only one exhaust pipe, and no trailer hitch.

The end result the guy wants though, is a smoky tint on his chrome rims. It seems to me that there would be more feasible ways of accomplishing that, without using window tint. Maybe if he were to just mix something like ink in with some kind of clear-coat that'll stick to chrome.