Hey everyone,

Posted this over on DYC, but also wanted to put it here for other Cobalt owners to see how it turned out.

DipYourCar just came out with a new line of plastidip colors last month, one of which is Vintage Gold. It's a nice color, isn't "blingy" gold, more similar to stock STI wheels. Anyways, went ahead and ordered a wheel kit with one can of glossifier (that I didn't use, may put on one coat this coming weekend), and layed it over my gunmetal/metallic SS/TC wheels.

I put bags over the brake systems, and used index cards to separate the tires from the rims. Overall, I love the way the project turned out, and it's such a nice color. I'd like to hear your comments and questions!

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Nate

 

too hard to jack up the car and take off 5 lug nuts? haha

looks good but i would stay with the gun metal.

 

Looks good, but yeah... why not just take the wheels off to do it?

 

I've always liked gold on red. well done.

 

As far as questions to why I didn't take the wheels off, it's the method used daily by DYC at their physical location for dipping customer wheels.

I was going to take the wheels off, but couldn't really justify the extra time involved to do so. About 6-8 minutes to place bags over the calipers, and put in index cards, while being able to paint all four wheels consecutively. This was the main time-saver, you can dip RF wheel, move to RR, then LR, then LF; by the time you finish the LF, the the RF is dry and ready for the next coat. As oppposed to jacking up the car, removing one side's wheels and leaving it on jackstands, then putting wheels back on, lowering car, and moving to the other side to do the next two.

Thanks for the input and comments, I appreciate it guys!

 

this is how I did it. too annoying to remove tires.

 

I did this to mine not too long ago. Like a 5 days ago. Took my rims off though. Looks great

 

Looks good. Would like to see them more up close.

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plastidip is not good for wheels. too hot and harsh for it to last, looks decent though.

 

Looks good, my wheels are dipped black and they have been for 2 summers and still look perfect

 

I like this color. I might try it on my HHR SS. Its VR also and I have black pastidipped wheels right now. I'm wondering if mine will be a darker gold if I tried this cuz my base layer would be straight black rather than gunmetal

 

id stick to gunmetal.

 

<3

 

^^anyone who doesn't take the time to pull off the rims and make it look good.

Nice color though. Little lighter than stock sti or enkies

 

I would worry about the plastidip spray going all over the car (which it will!). Also, the barrels of your wheels are not covered now. But don't listen to me, I even remove my wheels just for cleaning them and I wax the barrels too

I do like the new color better than the gun metal.

 

looks nice man