We call that "naturally smoked"

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So Rob and I painted my wheels yesterday. Wasn't the best job, but we did pretty good for a first time DIY. Mother nature gave us a lot of trouble with the high temps, humidity, and wind. Everything was going perfect till we started spraying the paint. It wouldn't go on smoothly and kept bubbling due to temps and humidity. They look good from far away, but not so much from up close. Probably gonna wet sand and refinish them at some point. I kind of wanted a bit darker color for them, which I might try for the refinish. Another thought I had was to try painting the lugs red to match the brakes. What do you guys think?

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Bring on the pics! What paint did you use btw?

Edited my last post with the pics. Those are just a couple quick ones I took coming into work. Ill take some more later.

I used VHT wheel paint, but I think you could probably use any kind of paint really.

The color looks perfect bro! I would probably do black lugs or maybe color match them.

It looks a little different in the pics because of the lighting. It looks a little too close to the car color IMO. A want it a bit darker so it has more contrast with the body, sort of like how it looked with the plasti dipped color. I was thinking of maybe doing red lugs to match the brakes. Though I do like how they look as is with the silver center cap.

just be aware that you will chip lug nut paint, so pick something that mixes well with silver.


car looks good, btw

I'm probably gonna leave it as is. Thanks :tup:

Might paint the headlight housing soon if the local headlight painting party goes well. After that I'm thinking sway bars and UpRev tune.

Here are some pics of the newly refinished wheels :tup:

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nice~~ how you paint your wheels gunmetal??

I used wheel paint from a spray can. Had to sand the wheels, then primer, paint, and clear coat. The paint didn't go on smoothly the first time because of the high temps/humidity so I had to refinish them. To do that, I wet sanded them and then put on some clear coat again to finish them off.

Here is the paint I used, but I used the graphite color. Got it from Autozone.

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Yea, looks like the paint didn't react well. Car looks good though.

Thanks. I did think about just redoing the paint as well, but couldn't find a better color and didn't have time to do it that same day. It's not perfect, but it still looks good enough for me. You don't really notice anything wrong unless you look at it up close.

Updated the first posts to include the painted wheels. Also gonna be painting my headlights tomorrow. Want to black out the housing and do the shrouds in gun metal. Either that or do the shrouds in black too.