I did my old civic wheels, they were battered!!!

IMO get them done proffessional as it take a long time and effort to do them and cots about 60 - 100 quid in materials to do them yourself.

IF you do them yourself, here is what I did.

Scrubbed the wheels and tyres down with soapy water and dried them.

Used a medium sand paper to sand out the chips etc, used a metal filler on deep gouges.

Then used a finer paper to flat it all off. Then cleaned them with water and dried.

I then stuck bits of tape down in between the tyre and the alloy rim all the way round, then used kitched clingfilm to wrap the tyre. Then taped the tape to the cling film.

Cling film is spot on, and even shrinks to hug the tyre giving a good seal.

I dusted the tyre in primer to see if there are any imperfections - sort ANYTHING you can see at this stage as it will look a million times worse when painted.

Ince happy, I tack wiped the alloys down to remove dust, then sprayed 3 layers of primer in light coats 15 minutes apart.

Let this dry over night, the next day I sanded any little blemishes, you can flat this off with wet and dry, I didn't need to, rattle can finish was pretty smooth.

Tackwiped it again and laid down 3 coats of Stratos Silver 15 minutes apart, light coats.

After 30 minutes apply 3 coats of lacquer, different methods her, I found that putting a decent coat down but not enough to run gave a smoother finish, to thin and it looked arange peeled.

Leave it a few days and then t-cut them and polish them up.

Here are mine before polishing...

before



after...