The wheels were lookin' mighty nasty so I decided to clean 'em up, polish the rims and paint the rest. What do ya'll think of my car's "new look"?

 

WOW! thats all i gotta say, those rims look awsome. thats it i gotta go clean mines now too

 

nice looks good. i once saw a 7 at the junk yard with the + rims powdercoated black looked nice.

 

Thanks! I wanted to get 'em powder-coated but the guy wanted 50 bucks a pop. At that price it just wasn't worth it. Even though I rattle canned these I think they'll hold up. Time will of course tell.

 

looks good, can't wait to see it in person.

 

Looks good man!

 

Lookin nice. Makes me think about doing those to mine.... Good job.

~brian

 

that looks really good, oh and i'm going on 1 year for my rattle can wheels and they are holding up fine.

mike

 

I also sprayed my stock rims this weekend, but I did the whole rim. Mine where peeling bad and I just wanted to cover them up. lol I was running some 17's on it, but they get old fast. Ride is much better and the car even feels faster with the stock 13's

Later
Randy

 

Looks sweeeet!

 

looks sweet man

i need to start a page devoted to brown sports cars.......

 

looks alot better!!!!

 

I did the exact same thing to mine, make sure you put a few layers of brake dust resistant clear coat on there or you'll have to polish them every week.

 

Thanks for the kind words guys! It makes it look like whole different car IMO. I like the way the wheels seem to set off the black trim. I wonder how she'd look with some darker tinted windows? hmmmmm...

ioTus - a special thanks to you my friend! It was your quick photoshop work that convinced me to "got for it" and it came out just as I envisioned. Thanks!

Matty's first 1st Gen - yeah I have like 4 or 5 coats of polyurethane "wheel" clearcoat on those suckers. I hope that's enough!

 

yea good advice about clearcoat, when i redid my wheels i used clearcoat made for wood (oops should have read the label a little better) and after going through the winter its all flaking off and turning yellow. Oye, oh well, time to redo them again i guess. Where do they sell wheel specific clear coat?

 

I got it at my local auto store.

To be honest I have 2 kinds of clear coat on my wheels. I started with 2 coats of "Glisten-PC" from POR-15. It's a two-part hardening clear coat. It woulda been perfect but the problem is I didn't have a spray gun so I brushed it on. Not good! It came out all uneven and kinda looked crappy. I let that clearcoat cure for a few days, lightly sanded it then spayed several coats of the polyurethane wheel clearcoat over top of it. I'm pretty happy with the results.

 

I'm doing that to my LE wheels... should look real nice...

Dan

 

my le wheels were done like that and they are flaking off now.... yours look good but the gold limited painted black look like hell, just my opinion

Kyle

 

Looks decent for a 13" rim. I prefer the SE rims instead. Too bad the bolt patterns are different.



Peace-