Has anyone had success getting rims sanded and repainted at a body shop?
I have one rim that is getting rusty and I’m having a devil of a time finding someone to repaint it.
Yes, I’m lazy and don’t want to do it myself.
buy a new trailer?
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Is it a fancy or unusual wheel? It would probably be cheaper to buy a new one (rather than pay someone to refinish it) if it’s a plain-jane type.
Not a chance, I love this trailer. It’s big enough for my warmbloods and hauls like a dream. Besides, it would take too much work to move all my stuff out of the dressing room!!
I was thinking this same thing last night, it’s pretty plain jane.
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Just want to share a conversation I had with one body shop.
Body Shop Guy (BSG): Just bring them all down and we’ll do them at the same time
Me; Can’t do that, they are literally on the trailer and I really only need 1 done, maybe two.
BSG: You can just put the trailer on jacks and take all the tires off
Me: I don’t have a couple of floor jacks handy, and I really only need 1 done.
BSG: It will be cheaper if you just bring them all at once
Me: Not cheaper than not buying two floor jacks.
He meant Jack stands I think, and no I wouldn’t be doing that either if I were you.
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Get some nice stainless steel wheel covers. Problem is out of sight.
You might have better luck getting it powder coated. It might not look exactly the same, but if you have them all done eventually they will match. 
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Yeah, but not out of mind.
Any thoughts on rust converter? Looks like paint and claims to convert the rust to a stable ferric tannate.
Of course, it turns black, and I’d have to paint the thing gray if I want it match but it is the spare.
Don’t know about for a wheel, but a friend used it on his steel stock trailer, before repainting it blue.
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I would just replace them with aluminum rims, if they are just white or black trailer wheels they are only $69 at Americas Tires, pretty sure it would be hard to pay someone to repaint them for that. The aluminum wheels will cost twice as much but last pretty much forever and look a bit fancier
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Hmm, I just had the tires done at America’s Tires and they didn’t say anything about selling wheels. I didn’t see any. Alas, mine are gray so I’m just going with the rust converter and then I’ll spray it myself.
I know you said you didn’t want to do it, but I promise it isn’t that difficult or time consuming. Take off the wheel from the trailer, wire wheel brush on a drill to get rid of the rust and smooth it a bit (having a drill to do the hard work for you is the key!), clean it off, mask the edge of the tire, then spray paint a few coats. They look brand new.
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Yep, already decided to do it myself, but will use rust converter.
ETA: started this afternoon, will post before, during and after pictures when done.
After cleaning and use of a sanding block to get as much rust off as I could without the use of power tools
After application of the rust converter
And repainted
All in all much easier than I thought it would be. I used Rustolium products
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Looks good!!!
You’re hired 
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My husband used powder coating. Made them turquoise.
He has since died.
I now have a new trailer and need to figure what to do we with the rims. The new rims won’t fit in the powder coating oven.
The powder coating was fun
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That looks super! Great work!
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Plastidip them? Then you can peel it off if you don’t like it or want to change it later.
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