Baking spray-painted alloy wheels...?

[Mowog01]

Hi,

I'm after some free advice from anyone with more bodywork experience than me, which is probably most people...

I bought up some replacement alloys for my car for cheap, and did my best to restore them. I'm quite pleased with the result - barring a really close inspection, they now look like new wheels. Yay me.

However, I suspect because of the thickness of paint and lacquer I've applied, the finish is still really soft. I know it will harden eventually, but I'd really like to get them (and some new tyres) on the car ASAP.

Can I put them in the oven to speed up the hardening process? Will this ruin the paint / have some unexpected consequence I am unaware of? I can just about fit one wheel in our oven, so I was thinking I could perhaps leave it on low overnight and that might do the trick.

I've Googled this (obvs) but as yet not found anything especially helpful. Hopefully someone reading has wisdom to impart.

Thanks in advance! :-)

[justinio]

Have a read of this before you whack them in at gas mark 8

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[dhutch]

Can't see 4-50 Deg oven doing harm, but assuming you don't have a deadline why not just leave them in the garage a week. Else you risk bubbling and the like imo.

Daniel

[Mowog01]

That is precisely the kind of thing I was hoping to find out. Thank you! I had no idea that wheels were heat treated that way.

The lowest my oven goes is 110C, so sounds like it's probably not worth the risk.

[steveo3002]

bit of warmth would speed it up a little , but proper 2k paints are formulated so that the heat kicks it off into curing

excess heat could leave you with solvent blisters

imo....leave it to harden naturally