Painting wheels - can I spray this bit?

[JimSuperSix]

My alloys' surfaces are very very knackered, so I want to quickly wire-brush and spray them in-situ on the car in a black and silver combo, but the front hubs stick out through the alloys (shown by the big red arrow) -

http://www.jameskett.dsl.pipex.com/SurfA.jpg

So, can I safely spray this bit? It looks pretty well sealed up. But, should it have a plastic cap over it anyway?

I want to get it to look (sort of) like this -

http://www.jameskett.dsl.pipex.com/SurfB.jpg

thanks
James

[TonyN]

Yeah, it won't hurt it.

[JimSuperSix]

Cheers, I'll get at it with newspaper and some rattlecans!

[Steptoe]

i tried it

I tried spraying my wheels on the car and they came out $$$$. I just couldn't get them rubbed down well enough on the car. mine were prety rough though. I've taken my alloys off now to do a propper job. I'm going to polish instead of paint this time working my way through finer and finer wet and dry at the momment. Wish i d never started.

[jap-coupe]

ive just started doing my wheels and ive finished one of them........ its turned out really good! just dive in, i was a bit scared of mucking them up but feel proud of the job ive done! good luck i'll try and put pics up soon...