Painted Wheels?

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Hey guys I have been looking to see what these wheels looking liked painted. I can't find a pic anywhere so if you could help me out possibly it would be awesome. It would be best to see it on a car but either would work.

I've always thought they'd look cool polished. Kinda like TT fat-fives, only not fat.

That's what i've been telling myself but i just can't picture it. I dont have the money to fork over for some rims right now so i'm just trying to do something to satisfy me until i do. Maybe i'll just suck it up and do it. 

just follow the diy on here and paint your stockers

Would it look stupid? I panited wheels on my gti and looked good but they were bbs, just this wheel type idk about though. 

It'll look better than not painted.

Really. ok cool thanks a lot for the opinions guys. I might look into working on this over the weekend. 

search the forum, I know people on here have painted the Stock 16's black before. Personally I am kinda liking the idea of polishing them

I just seen some painted black on audizine and i kinda liked it. it was on pearl white mine is that cream color but looks pearl sometimes. Have your head of any meets or anything goin on in cincy.

the zine' has a pretty active Cinci crew that seems to be meeting more often but I haven't personally heard of much.


Although I am out of the loop being car-less in C-Bus for the year and then I'll have my car with me up here in C-bus next year.

carless? why do you not have your car. 

because being a freshman, my parents won't let me bring my car up to campus, so it's sitting at home in Cincinnati why I am two hours north going to school.


But there is a positive to it because I've had a power steering rack leak that I am finally getting fixed but by not driving my car a lot, I've saved myself like 100 bucks on Power steering fluid, which has been reallocated to more enjoyable past times.

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there ya go, a bunch of pics of those rims in chrome.

i just repainted my stock 98 a4 rims on sunday i think they came out pretty good. i somewhat followed a guide i found on here somewhere, tho i cant find it at the moment.....

you did do a really good job on the paint, but man you can barely tell you have wheels on the car now. It's like you are hovering with those little white disks on the first picture.

shouldve painted them all white imo.

I was thinking about doing this too, I have the same type of rims.

What color do you guys think would look good for me...





Sorry about the lighting, it was sunset when I took these. Its not black.

well what color is it? that'll help with color choice?

Duplicolor graphite is my opinion.

There's a guy on here with our 2.8 wheels painted gunmetal and to me, they just look dirty, like they're in desperate need of a wash. Polished might look nice and maybe black, but I would stay away from brake dust colored paint.

We need a new designated photoshop genius...I think Leifer's taken to drink.

Anyone like this???



http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166891

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Anyone like this???



http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166891

Yes!

yea they turned out a little darker then i imagined, although those pictures are at dusk il take some daylight ones a little later, but white would have been impossible to keep clean. and im one of those people that if my wheels are dirty i have to clean them.... so this would take up way too much of my time hah. in the somewhat distant future i plan on getting a carbon fiber hood and trunk possibly so i figured a dark color would fit in in the end. i think il try painting the audi rings on the hubs white or silver next time i get a chance.

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ORIGINAL: ghost6303

yea they turned out a little darker then i imagined, although those pictures are at dusk il take some daylight ones a little later, but white would have been impossible to keep clean. and im one of those people that if my wheels are dirty i have to clean them.... so this would take up way too much of my time hah. in the somewhat distant future i plan on getting a carbon fiber hood and trunk possibly so i figured a dark color would fit in in the end. i think il try painting the audi rings on the hubs white or silver next time i get a chance.

Painting the calipers would be a really nice touch, too.

That's what I plan on doing this weekend but maybe a bit lighter. 

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ORIGINAL: CAB509

well what color is it? that'll help with color choice?

I would describe it as a very very dark grey, possibly a gunmetal. At night you would think its black. Graphite might be a nice choice.

Sineo do you have pics of someone who painted there stocks gunmetal?