well since when a wheel is polished it looks like garbage, i decided to paint it. The spokes are gunmetal and the holes are black, heres some pics.











Rick

 

looks good.

pics dont show the contrast between the black to well. but looks like it turned out nicely.


question....did you strip the area you painted? or scuff and just paint over it?

what was your method?

 

the entire wheel was stripped and then i tried to polish it but it looked like crap, so i painted the entire wheel gunmetal. That looked good. then i got the idea to do this.


Rick

 

ahhhh nicely done. your gunmetal looks perfect.


Ive had thoughts of doing this myself for a while now.

i havent looked to hard...but did you have to strip the entire rim inside and out?
or just the holes and spokes?

did you clearcoat?

 

I just stripped the holes and spokes. I did clearcoat. this is just a spare wheel i had laying around. My idea was to do this as a mock up and then take it to a powder coat shop and get the price to do it in that. well, he wants $150 a wheel, screw that. But if you really wanted to do this right i would strip the inside of the wheel and just paint it gunmetal and then do the holes and clear everything.


Rick

 

aye. im kinda thinking on stripping, doing the spokes black and the holes/lip in a bright silver/chrome look.

depends on if i can find some winter steelies, then ill have lots of time with them off the car to work with it.

 

the wheel is pretty bright when stripped.





thats a stripped wheel, dont mind the 2 spots i tried to polish.


Rick

 

how do i put my own pics on a thread?