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Old 04-17-2011, 10:30 PM   #8 (permalink)
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The texture on the wheel isn't the paint, it's the cast surface. They just clean it and shoot paint over it, then mill the flange and spokes and clear the whole wheel. That's how they get the high lighted effect of the spokes and flange. It makes the wheel look sharper, more defined, from a distance.
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