Painting Wheels

[whateverjames]

are there kits to paint wheels gun metal grey? i'm thinking of buying wheels from someone but i want to paint my car silver with gunmetal grey wheels. and how is this done

[240meowth]

i've heard of powder coating, but it needs to be professionally done, and the do-it-yoself kit arn't very shiny (if there's one) but from what i see, people who paint their rims it isn't shiny

[iggy]

yeah..i would go to a shop that powder coats and have them professionally powder coat the rims.  i've seen alot of 'do it yourself' painted rims and they just dont look nice.

[ffdet]

I have painted rims in the past.. Duplicolor makes a paint specifically for wheels that is gun metal in color and it appears to work pretty well. I agree, powdercoating is a better option since it's way more chip resistant. But painting them costs as much as 2 cans of paint so it's a tradeoff I say. The duplicolor wheel paint is quite strong and it looks pretty good. Check out my car with the rims painted gunmetal..

http://www.ffdet.com/members/brad/bradrear.jpg

EDIT: Maybe this pic shows it better.. the other didn't.

(Edited by ffdet at 11:26 am on Jan. 22, 2002)

[misnomer]

Nice Talon, dood <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

[whateverjames]

looks nice. have anymore pictures?