Painted Oem rims gunmetal
 

deciding whether to paint my rims black or gunmetal, i had a hard time finding any gunmetal rims on a black 8 so i decided to post mine.

did this about two weeks ago. love the look.
Well the pictures are huge. too lazy to downscale them.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...e/IMG_8377.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...IMG_8117-1.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...IMG_8580-1.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...IMG_8585-1.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...IMG_8561-1.jpg
*aware You cant even see the rims in these pictures :)

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...e/IMG_8602.jpg
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...e/IMG_8610.jpg

Nice, been thinkin of doing this. Perhaps do the center caps too?

they look good check mine out

hmm idk, i just liked the look of them not painted.

the 3rd pic looks great.

did you paint them yourself or have a shop do it?

Gunmetal looks good and provides a nice contrast to the BB paint. Paint the center caps and maybe get some tuner lugs to finish the job.

That looks sick man. I love it. What did you use to paint it?

Those look good. Get the rx8 rotor center caps and it'll look even better.

good job man....hope you took all precautions to prevent them from chipping

Have you gotten any questions along the line of:

"are those wheels stock?"

or

"is that a factory wheel color?"


I get those all the time with my rattle canned black wheels. Leave the center caps unpainted... sets it off fer shur... that's just my $.02 though.

Gunmetal does look good with black. In the 4th photo the paint looks a bit splotchy. Did you add a clearcoat?

those actually look nice. good job.

nice job, looks b8tchin!

looks nice. resize your photos though :O

they actually look good, nice clean job!

thank you cav

looks really good. glad its not anothre Black OEM rim thread. gunmetal looks way better.

Looks really nice,
you should get the Black with Rotary Emblem wheel center cap now
it will matches better
http://i40.tinypic.com/2lxx8xx.jpg

looks good. i would do the centercaps but thats just me. should also paint your rusty ol rotors haha. looks 29384765 times better

looks good. i almost did this to mine too.

Looks great; def. a good job painting them. My only suggestion would be to paint the center caps as well

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read all the replies, and thanks for the compliments.

couple things, i personally prefer the look of the centercaps unpainted, when i see the centers painted as well somehow it just looks like too overdone in my eyes, and the different color center caps add a different look.
~the rotary centers seem like a good idea as well.
I used duplicolor primer, paint, and clearcoat.
i cant really remember how many coats of paint was used, but i think it goes, 2 coats of primer, either 2 or 3 coats of gunmetal paint, and then finished off with 3 coats of clearcoat.
~my friend who has had a lot of experience painting rims, and even an entire car, did it in about 4 hours.

i wanted to paint my rims too :(

did you clear coat them? they look kinda flat in the pics?

Looks nice... I plan on doing the same to mine when it comes time to swap tires out later this year