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ryanalexander4 03-24-2009 10:58 AM

Painted Enkei Spare Wheel / Rim (formerly yellow)
 
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Hey everyone - I'm sure quite a few of you have had the misery of driving around on that yellow spare tire once or twice. I'm incredibly prone to flat tires for some reason, so I decided to lose the bright yellow... I had never painted anything in my life before this little experiment. I'm not a professional, by any means. Let me know what you think, thanks.

nvrfalter 03-24-2009 11:11 AM

ha thats sick. i wish they were full size. i would collect another 3 and use em haha

ryanalexander4 03-24-2009 11:15 AM

haha, yeah - too bad they're only like 3" thick

J wind 03-24-2009 11:38 AM

nice, looks alot nicer then when I painted my rims back when I had an FC.

lepichichi 03-24-2009 11:39 AM

nice job.

kersh4w 03-24-2009 01:27 PM

not bad.

what kind of prep did you do?

Alucard 03-24-2009 01:34 PM

looks great.... nice idea on the black and silver

krijpipudht 03-24-2009 02:46 PM

Nice! How did you do two-tone paint?

ryanalexander4 03-24-2009 08:18 PM

Thanks everyone for the compliments... just to answer everyone at once:
**Prep was removing the warning sticker towards the center, and then attempting to sand the yellow. The aluminum, (or whatever the spare is made of) started sanding off with the paint so I immediately stopped, gave it a good wash and used the yellow as a primer.
**The "two-tone" as aforementioned was just some quick tape work over the black paint (first layer) and then I removed the tape after the layer of silver/gray for the final layer of clearcoat.

philipchan 03-30-2009 11:58 AM

@.@
i never had a spare tire in my trunk :)

ZumnRx8 03-30-2009 12:05 PM

I did until after 2 years, i was like get that crap outta my trunk.


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