I finally got around to painting half my wheels. It's a graphite color. Wheel see how the paint holds up.

Here's a crappy phone pic after I finished one wheel. I'll get more crappy phone pics when I'm completely done. Yes, I'm rockin 2 stock colored wheels and 2 painted wheels. Don't worry they're on different sides of the car, so no one will notice unless they see both sides. Weather permitting, they'll be done tomorrow.

 

Nice, how are you painting them and what paint are you using?

 

Cool, looks good.

 

Looks good so far, post some better pics in the sunlight.

 

I followed the how-to. I sanded them down, blew the dust off with air, wiped them down with acetone, then painted them. I'm kinda worried about the paint I used though, it's dupli-color textured metallic. It was the only paint I could find in the color I wanted. I found a wheel paint, but the color was a little to light on my test sprays. Hopefully it'll hold up. You don't notice the texture until you're right up on them. Even then it's really fine. I was skeptical at first, but now they're painted I really like it. It seems to break up some of the metallic and kinda has a not flat paint, but not glossy paint look to it. I really like it. I will try to borrow my friends camera and get better pics. The previous one was last night after I got the wheels back on.

Thanks for the compliments.

 

Here's some better pics. It's cloudy so. . .I'll get some more up when it's sunny.

http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...r/DSCF0266.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...r/DSCF0267.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...r/DSCF0269.jpg
http://i249.photobucket.com/albums/g...r/DSCF0270.jpg

 

Looks pretty good, I was planning on painting my wheels gloss black.

 

you did a really nice job on those. i wish i could paint mine but im affraid i woulnt like them when there done, they will chip and i will have to redo them a few times and i cant paint to so that will be a big job. idk i still cant decide. but you did real well, the bbs should have come that way for sure

 

Thank you. It really wasn't hard, but it took a while sanding them down. Any paint job is only as good as the prepwork going into it. If you spend all your time sanding and making sure you have a good surface to paint, you should be fine.

I also think they should have come this way. Darker than what they do anyways.

 

good job

 

Thanks!