That looks freaken SHWEET!! Very nice job.

I'm thinking of painting my rims also, but only the silver part of it. I want to go with a glossy black but i havent seen any duplicolor glossy black wheel paint.

 

duplicolor doesn't make glossy black wheel paint.. but as long as you do a good job with any duplicolor auto paint, itll hold up fine.. just use a regular duplicolor gloss black and cover it in the duplicolor clear wheel paint wink1.gif thats what imma do.

liz, it looks damn good. i can't get a good feel of the color though.. is it dramatically darker than the graphite color? the flash is throwing me off. it looks 100% better only polishing the part you did as opposed to the WHOLE lip.

how many cans did you use per rim of just color?

EDIT: can you PLEAAAAASE take a pic of one of the graphite rims next to the new color ones?

 

Yeah they only make the flat black. Using the clearcoat over it adds a bit of shine to it, but its hard to get the flat black even. So misting the graphite color over the black makes it more metallic, then I just added a sh!tload of clear coat after sanding it with 1000 grit sp.

So far between 2 rims I've gone through about 1 1/2 cans of black, 1/4 can of graphite, and 1/2 can of clear coat. I didn't use the graphite on the inside of the wheel, just kept it flat black.

It is a lot darker than the original color. Here's a pic, I had just sanded the lighter one down so its not as shiny, but you get the idea.



and once Im done with the lip it'll be much more shiny. Then Im gonna clearcoat that as well.

 

very nice.. i will definately be doing my wheels soon.. i haven't been motivated to do them cuz i don't have tires for em right now.. but since i just got the job i wanted, ill get tires soon.

i won't be copying off your look though. ill be going with metallic or gloss black with clear..

 

yeah thats why I put them off for so long, well mostly because I couldnt find tires in the size I need. I wanna stick with Yokohamas. But anyway just do them the way I did. They're pretty much metallic black. When you spray the flat black on, you gotta do it kinda heavy and even so that its nice and wet, otherwise it'll be really flat and dull. If you're gonna use non wheel paint make sure you primer them good so it doesn't flake off. I used filler primer to fill in the scratches. There's still some deep ones on the lip from curb rash, but whatever you only see them up really close. Beats paying $140 a piece for new rims, hah.

 

definately beats buying new rims, and whenever you want to change the look it only costs about 30$ in paint and sandpaper. ill probably use non wheel paint. but when i sand them down from what they are now, ill use like 320-400 grit so i can use my old paint as a good base to stick to, then use the wheel paint clear on top of the regular met. black paint..

so itll go: sanded down wheel paint, black primer, met. black paint, wheelpaint clear.

 

That should work. I actually ran out of the black wheel paint so I had to use some black high heat paint on the back of the spokes, blended in pretty well.

Anyway, just got the third one done, and I polished the lip on it fully. Im very happy with it.

 

Thats looking fantastic Tibbychick. That color should look awesome with your car color.

Also, quick question you using a dremel to polish the lip? If so what kind of bit?

 

Actually I ended up just sanding it. Started with 80 grit, then 180, then 400, then 800, then 1000 and I finished it of with this polishing stuff called Nevr Dull. Came out nice and shiny.

 

That looks awesome!! Great job TibbyChick.

Thanks Socks and TibbyChick for the info on how to paint the wheels. I'll have to paint mine now... smile.gif