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Anyone have any experience painting the bolts on the beauty rings?

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I'm going to paint my beauty rings but I want to perhaps color match the beauty rings bolts for contrast. Anyone have any experience in this area, advice? Kinda going for this look.

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Bolts are difficult to paint- as once you put them on and tighten them with a socket, it most of the time in my experience messes up the paint (chipping) in the corners where the socket makes contact after install and tightening.

The ones in the photo almost look like they are "anodized". Typically anodize can be done on aluminum and titanium and not steel. The bolts are most likely steel.

If I were going to paint the bolts I would make sure they are clean and use a high quality spray paint, very light coat or coats to minimize the "chipping" after install with a socket.
 

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I've been thinking about this as well. Once the beauty rings are painted and installed, there is really no reason to remove them. I think I will hand paint them with a small brush after install.
 

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I assume you're talking about painting another color besides factory black? Because I've had those off and on a couple of times, also a couple different flats fixed and 7k miles on them and not a scratch or chip yet on the bolts.
 

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The bolts are cheap. One step above plastic. They strip and suck. I powder coated my rings and 5 bolts need to be replaced due to the head stripping. Horrible. They also are starting to rust from being marred. Worst experience so far with my Bronco
 

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I'm going to paint my beauty rings but I want to perhaps color match the beauty rings bolts for contrast. Anyone have any experience in this area, advice? Kinda going for this look.

Ford Bronco Anyone have any experience painting the bolts on the beauty rings? Screenshot_20220808-054419_Google
Although we do not have any thoughts on the process, if you end up doing this we would love to see photos after!
 

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Powder coated my rings, painted the bolts with rustoleum . They look fine , probably need to be sprayed every year though.
 
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Powder coated my rings, painted the bolts with rustoleum . They look fine , probably need to be sprayed every year though.
Do you have any pics?
 
 


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