Hey guys, my names Bobby ive been on *************** for a while but that forum seems to be dying a bit, i took over payments on my girls 07 LS 4door and bought her a 2011 Camry when we had our first son. Ive got till august of next year to pay it off and Im going to do a few little things to it to make driving it somewhat enjoyable.

I just picked up a set of 16" Enkeis from a buddy with all season tires on them with about 40% tread left for $250, wheels are old and definetly need attention but otherwise good.

I eventually will either professionally paint them or have them pcoated next spring but im looking for something to do for the winter.

So definetly going black, I want to either plasti dip them or spray them, Im not trying to put 8+ hrs labor into these like I did my old wheels and have them get DESTROYED by snow/ice when it freezes this winter.

So what do you guys think i should do for a temporary black coating? Plasti dip or Paint?

 

plasti-dip forsure. only prep work is clean the wheel and dry it. then just tape off and spray that **** on thick. easy and cheap. no one will know there not painted and when it comes time to pc them the **** peels right off.

 

sounds like a plan, im spray the wheels thursday, getting the windows tinted sunday, and doing FE5 struts with Megan springs next week, just did a autozone kit intake today with the spectre maf adapter. Its a gold base model LS, so im not working with much but i just need something fun to drive, and I dont care about power, as long as it looks/sounds decent.

 

lower it. ha thats a must if your riding on 16's it will change everythingg

 

yea im getting megan springs off CL cheap, those should drop it 2" or so. Also, im wondering after reading 8 pages through the plastidip thread, has anyone tried to Clear coat over it? i might try that.

 

post pics when you're done!!

 

never tried it but i heard many people say it doesnt really work. i read one guy said he uses the vht clear and it works perfect. give it a try and lets see some pics!

 

If you use clear, use high temp vht clear. Definitely not easy to get the plastidip off though of you do that. Thats what I did, and its holding up nicely and is much easier to clean than flat plastidip

 

^^^ can we see some pics?

 

agreed i wanna see if its glossy

 

i will probably be doing this on thursday work/weather dependant.

 

plastip dipped my enkeis today....

This is them originally the lip is very pitted. paid $250 with about 60% all season tires.


freshly dipped! wish the gloss stuck it looked DAMN GOOD!



mounted: dont be jealous of my awsome LS base model, getting it tinted saturday and blacking the inside of the headlights sunday!

 

plasti-BRAH

 

also** i did not tape off or use cards or anything, just a tiny bit of overspray peeled right off!

 

i would of lowered it before that. got about 10inches of wheel gap

 

^ yesss hah but oh well once its lowered it will look 10 times better.

 

looking to grab megan springs locally, with FE5 struts hoping the drop wont be too low for the winter. for the mean time im enjoying me super 4x4 stance!