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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:28 PM
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with or without?

What do you think looks better, with my nasty center caps, or without?


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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:31 PM
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:31 PM
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:44 PM
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Buy a can of paint

paint your center caps (cover the fake lugnuts) either a silver to bring aluminum luster or color key to your car color. My 2 cents.

Worst, you go without anyway.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:48 PM
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without. Replace the center caps with some knockoffs
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 08:54 PM
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Re: Buy a can of paint

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paint your center caps (cover the fake lugnuts) either a silver to bring aluminum luster or color key to your car color. My 2 cents.

Worst, you go without anyway.
I have 2 sets of rims and center caps. I started painting the center caps silver, but ran out of paint after the first one, and havent got around to getting more paint and doing the rest yet.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 09:00 PM
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forget painting. I think your rims look great with them removed.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 11:06 PM
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without! mad weight redux, yo! and rotating, unsprung weight! it's like, 5:1 for unsprung:sprung weight or something... so, taht's equivilant to like, 0.5 oz sprung weight removed!

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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 11:21 PM
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Pull the rims off and paint the part of the rotor that shows black.
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 11:46 PM
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I wish mine came that shinny!!!!! Hehehe, I just finished scowering them down to a gun metallic color. They look pretty nifty and our definitely low profile just like the rest of my 89 GXL
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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 11:51 PM
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without, and maybe, if you want it to look cleaner, file that little groove off that goes around the circumference of where the center cap would be and polish it to match or some ****, i dont know, play with it. just a suggestion. L8er man

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Old Jan 17, 2002 | 11:53 PM
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With, and paint 'em.
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 01:48 AM
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I think either way looks great.
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 03:18 AM
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absolutly without
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 10:03 AM
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Yo,


I voted "Without", but if you go and buy some silver spray paint for RC car bodies your centercaps can look like this:




They don't look too bad painted.

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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 12:49 PM
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They can look like they're attached to a GTUs? Dude! Paint them!
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 03:25 PM
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I pulled my centercaps off of my TII's wheels for that "hArDcOrE RaCa'" look and I'm still debating if I like it or not. My centercaps are in fine shape though...I just wanted a change without buying a whole new set of wheels.
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 05:24 PM
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Maybe paint that bearing cap silver, black, or red or something.
I have TII rims which I polished, I also polished the center cap to a mirror finish, and painted the MAZDA on it red- looks great!
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Old Jan 18, 2002 | 10:28 PM
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i'm going to have to say with. And maybe paint them if you want, and if you do make them silver. Just my thoughts.

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Old Jan 19, 2002 | 02:19 PM
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w/o !
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Old Jan 19, 2002 | 02:22 PM
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eithr way. I'm like ZachSpazz, still battling it with myself

here a pic of my wheel, the center cap is painted gray.
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Old Jan 19, 2002 | 03:21 PM
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Originally posted by GTUsGUY
here a pic of my wheel, the center cap is painted gray.
That settles it! Paint the cap and your car will turn into a GTUs!
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