Avoid dip rip after at bolt area dipping wheels.
Looking to dip my wheels end of the month to protect them during the winter. Looking to take the wheels off and dip them as mine have many spokes so want to have good coverage. Concern is when putting the wheels back on, I may rip the dip around the wheel bolts as I don’t have a impact wrench. What can I do to prevent it from ripping if I was to use a manual wrench?
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As long as you have the right size of socket, and maybe an extension so you aren’t rubbing on the wheel itself, it shouldn’t make a difference between impact or manual wrench. If anything I would be more prone to thinking a manual wrench would be more gentle on the wheels actually. I could be totally wrong though, I’ve never plastic dipped my wheels. No matter what, you will have to tighten down the wheels to drive the car. Hope it works out for you either way!
Never torque them with impact wrench, every time you do that you’re shooting you’re self in the foot. Next time when you’re taking the wheels off you’ll have hard time taking the bolts out without a impact wrench + we have lug bolts instead of lug nuts so when you are tightening them with the impact wrench if you misthread them you will ruin your wheel hub and either you will have to get them re threaded or if it’s not recoverable you’ll have to get new hubs and those aint cheap from oem although aftermarket ones run for $100, they’re sold in pairs.
Get some painters tape, cover outside of the socket with some tape, gently tighten the bolts make sure you torque them to your vehicle specs, after tightening them if you lift some paint just spray some plastidip inside where the lug bolts sit with in the rim and you should be good, if you lift too much plasti dip, get a xacto knife and cut the surrounding area of the lifted dip, with plastidip you can work on specific areas without redoing the entire paint job.