Hi,
Can anyone help with the closest paint to match the alloys of my
Porsche Cayman S
987.2
?
Be aware that aluminum wheels are anodized, not painted. This is a very thin metallic coating applied similar to chrome plating, etc. In the normal repair of a paint scratch, you might be tempted to lightly sand the area. With anodizing this will just make things worse. I would suggest you go to your local autoparts store and buy some spray cans of various shades of silver. Spray them out on some card stock and hold them up to the wheels to determine which color matches the best. Then, spray the color that matches the best on to a fine point brush and transfer the paint in to the scratch or blemish. It will be far from perfect but can't hurt.
In the states there are firms that refinish aluminum wheels, as the technology is applicable to a ton of cars. It is not cheap when done correctly.
this is not always true. I repainted mine and pretty well matched the OE paint.
Your local auto paint supplier can likely color match using an optical scanning tool. Their paint will likely be slightly different than I got because they may have different suppliers,
this paint vs an un-refinished/oe
More detail in this post here:
DIY Wheel Refinishing
Nice DIY article. Thanks for putting that together.
I was wondering about my original "shoot from the hip" answer regarding anodized wheels. I had a look at the PCA.org Tech Q&A section. If you are a PCA member, you can do searches on all the Tech Q&A questions that have been submitted, going many years back. After searching on "anodize" and "painted wheels", I have come to the rough determination that up to around 2000, especially if we are talking about Fuchs, they were anodized. After that point, when someone posted a question about their "painted wheels", the experts did not contradict that, they simply seemed to get into what was the better paint repair product. With that minimal amount of research, I'm going to say the wheels on the 987 were not anodized. Maybe someone has better knowledge and will chime in.
There were several threads about the paint color. Pedro Bonilla said:
If you're spray painting then Wurth Silver Wheel Paint with the following SKUs: WRTH 0893339108, WRTH-0893339108, WRTH.0893339108, WRTH0893339108.
I looked for some of the Wurth paint, but there was debate online on how exact of a match it was. It was also about the same cost as a can of color matched paint from an auto paint supply place that I could buy all my prep supplies from and could confirm compatibility of the materials, best practice, etc. At the end of the day, that definitely swayed my material supply decision.
As far as I know - having owned 4 Porsches so far - all of them had painted wheels. And some of them I had 2 sets of wheels, none appeared to be anodized. When I curb them, the paint properties are quite obvious (primer and then top color and clear-coat.)
My local wheel shop charges $250 to repaint a wheel. I’ve done a fair amount of painting and I’d let the pros refinish a wheel. Painting is the easy part. Getting the tire on and off and the strip and prep would be a PIA.
Depending on your desired result and cost, I bet your local dealer has a guy that can work magic on whatever the wheels requires. Good luck
