GT3 Wheels Painted in Exterior Colour Help

[PRO5T]

Hi,
Does anyone have any leads on how wheels used to be finished in exterior colour and who may be a good help to reproduce this?

My car (a white 997.1 GT3) was originally specified with these. There is also a historic invoice on file for a wheel refurbishment with Basalt Black centres.

The car currently wears gloss black powder coated (as per RS) which I fancy changing, so I'm thinking possibly going back to the OE white or the basalt black. I was originally wanting to go solid white (AI shows what it would look like below-it's not a real image) but my local place can't get the finish just right-it's enough of a difference in white to look a bit odd when powder coated (they did a test wheel for me) so I think I'll need to simply go painted-not ideal on a track car.

Anyone done any themselves?

AI image of solid white;




A pretty rare pick of wheels in white-no idea if it’s my car!



Wheels Painted in Exterior Colour oe finish

Edited by PRO5T on Sunday 11th January 13:47

[Jones the cat]

Pretty sure the go to place is Lepsons

https://lepsons.com/the-lepsons-difference/

Regarded as best in class for all things alloy related.

[Pomsteroonie]

They need to be wet painted for a proper match.

Just had mine done by BodyGuard in Havant, not cheap but factory perfect.



I would also call https://www.instagram.com/whoopswheelfixit/ who are way better than Lepsons nowadays.

You can see how good they are on insta

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Pomsteroonie said:

They need to be wet painted for a proper match.

Just had mine done by BodyGuard in Havant, not cheap but factory perfect.



I would also call https://www.instagram.com/whoopswheelfixit/ who are way better than Lepsons nowadays.

You can see how good they are on insta

When you say way better than Lepsons, by what metric, as I’ve never heard a bad thing about them, or seen a bad job. How are the other firm doing it better?

Genuine question as I am close to getting Lepsons to redo my wheels.

[craigjm]

Jones the cat said:

Pretty sure the go to place is Lepsons

https://lepsons.com/the-lepsons-difference/

Regarded as best in class for all things alloy related.

Second this. They did a blue wheel on my white Cayman I had when one got damaged and you couldnt tell from the rest that were factory OE

[mikeh501]

I spent a lot of time trying to get a particular colour on my GT3 and it was really difficult. There’s a company in Chester called F1 alloys which does colour match but it’s not cheap. Most refurb companies are limited to the powders they have form their supplier, who only do the fairly standard colours. The problem is that Porsche do not sell or tell anyone the colour mix for their colours so everything is an approximation.

[PRO5T]

mikeh501 said:

I spent a lot of time trying to get a particular colour on my GT3 and it was really difficult. There s a company in Chester called F1 alloys which does colour match but it s not cheap. Most refurb companies are limited to the powders they have form their supplier, who only do the fairly standard colours. The problem is that Porsche do not sell or tell anyone the colour mix for their colours so everything is an approximation.

Sorry I missed this reply, had a quick search, I can see an "S1 Alloys" in Chester but no F1? Typo?

[PaulJC84]

Just saw this and thought it looked pretty cool.

https://www.elferspot.com/en/car/porsche-997-gt2-r...

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PRO5T said:

mikeh501 said:

I spent a lot of time trying to get a particular colour on my GT3 and it was really difficult. There s a company in Chester called F1 alloys which does colour match but it s not cheap. Most refurb companies are limited to the powders they have form their supplier, who only do the fairly standard colours. The problem is that Porsche do not sell or tell anyone the colour mix for their colours so everything is an approximation.

Sorry I missed this reply, had a quick search, I can see an "S1 Alloys" in Chester but no F1? Typo?

I looked, and guessed a name change - for whatever reason.

There really is no better place than Lepsons for guaranteed finish. The name is always quoted on various forums I’ve been on. I know of a very high end body shop that only ever uses them, as they’re guaranteed the OEM finish.

[scrounger73]

You don't say where you are in the Uk but if you're in the North West try Rader International in Trafford Park.