Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior Painting rims!

Ok, so I cant afford to buy a new set of rims due to the fact Im getting LAMBO'S (yes its true!!!!) But; I am getting my stock rims painted white to match my car!! Waht do you guys think? Think itll look ok?? 50 bucks a rim???? Thats what they told me!!! Done in the same day!!!

for 300 more you could get new 17 inch rims and tires from www.wheelmax.com [wheelmax.com] if you wanna save your money for a tid bit of time, but it would deffinetly look good, especially if you have the GT rims, just the thing is, there super hard to keep clean

Yeah they are the GT rims...I think it'll be ok!!!! Good to see ya back. havent seen you in a while!! I saw all the mods your getting on your car. Just outta curiosity how much did all that run ya??

ide recomend you paint them yourself, and use that 200 and save some more, and eventually get nice aftermarket rims

where you been saspence? haven't seen you in awhile

what color you gonna get? Hyper black? wait, you got a white celi? Hmmm let me know what you go with. I got a whitey too

For sure just prime and paint them yourself. Spray some clearcoat on after if you feel like it. Total cost will be like $35 for supplies, and you can save the cash until you can afford new rims. Cheap 17" rims would only be like $500-$700.

That's not a bad idea at all. Maybe I should try that on my stock rims, they're just sitting in the closet.

How do you do it?

get spray primer, spray wheel paint, and normal clear coat, and 300-400grit sand paper

sand down the wheels to get the clearcoat off of them, and give the primer something to attatch to, then i put 1 real light coat of primer, sanded that, then a normal coat of primer over that, and sanded till it was perfectly smooth.

then i applied 1 light coat, and 2 normal coats of paint, then 2 coats of clear

BTW: the spray can will say how long to wait to spray anything ontop of the paint, which includes more coats of the paint

EDIT: to keep paint off the tires i put cards between the rim & tire. that worked real good. and when you are spraying the paint/primer/clear, make sure you start spraying before your close to the rim, and make everything even

I had to redo one rim, kuz i started spraying on the rim instead of spraying away, and moving the spray across

don't have any tires on them

ok

cool


thanks

What color should I go with?

I have a white celi

Ofcourse you made you're decision, but I think you should get nice rims befor lambo doors.

rims? paint? black

gun metal, that looks ausome on white celica's with Carbon Fiber hood

Beat me to the punch, exactly how I was going to suggest

don't get white


get a black or gunmetal

I think it depends on the color car. I think white on blue or red looks sick. It doesn't look as good on a white car, and it looks fugly on black, silver or yellow most the time.

maybe I'll try black. that would be kinda cool, having da rim match the tires.

Any suggestions on brand of can spray paint? I used that high temp stuff on my calipers, worked well. I used it on my muffler too and so far it's protected the muffler pretty well too in the salt.

So if we do the paint job ourselves what's the quality gonna be like?

Say you're mechanically inclined, how long is the paint gonna last?

Yeah, thats my only worry!! If they do it, its guaranteed for a certain length of time!! Ill go with white, you go with black, since both our cars are white, itll be cool to compare etc!!!!

Jsut been busy...work=shit!!! lol. Im back though!!! Yeah, Im goin with white I think itll look clean!!! What do you think?

black or gunmetal.

I think I'll try that

i dont think it will look good unless you do black with polished lip soo stay with white

i'm a huge fan of gunmetal, for now i wan't to make mine look like these until i can actually buy them.