New UK Owner - 370z GT - White - Black Wheels
 

Said good bye to my old girl yesterday...
http://www.the370z.com/members/sprin...ture7810-a.jpg

Said hello to the new lady in my life:

http://www.the370z.com/members/sprin...ish-wheels.jpg

Congratulations!

CONGRATS', dude! My mouth waters...I own an '04.5 White Pearl Touring Coupe and love it...Yours is, simply, a-w-e-s-o-m-e!!! BTW, your "ex-girlfriend's" color, what exactly was it??!! The lighting makes it hard to id'--gold?! Once again: Congrats' on your sweet new love!

sweet - are the wheels stock - just look black in dark?

I can't believe you had a Z and kept her completely stock lol congrats

Nice one. I too had a Sunset 350Z and have recently taken ownership of a 370Z (but mine is Yellow).

I like the black wheels :)

very nice!

Nice man, look after that bad boy over there in Blighty

Congrats! Hard to part with your 350 but the 370 will be worth it! :icon17:

Looks Good and congrats!!!

Please post more pictures of your car and the rims!! as i want to get mine sprayed aswell!!!

Kept procrastinating about what to do but hard to decide with sunset orange... was never sure what look I wanted... so figured I'd save the money and hold out for the 370z because once I saw one of those, I knew exactly what I wanted her to look like :-)

Lighting isn't great in this one... will take more soon...

http://www.the370z.com/members/sprin...ture7825-a.jpg

They are painted black. It's a custom finish.

It's "Sunset Orange"

I wanted to put tints on the windows but found out that law in UK on tints is really strict... Driver and passenger windows must let through 70% of the ambient light... which is pretty much how the windows come stock...

Already got pulled over by police within 4 hours of getting the car because.... "...yes I know you were under the speed limit sir but, quite frankly, I didn't like the manner of your driving!" He said I'd gone round the corner too fast. I politely said that it didn't seem very fast and I was confident that I could stop in time if anyone stepped into the road and he said "well it wouldn't seem very fast in one of these, would it". He let me go... not before saying "nice car!"... I think he just hadn't pulled one over before and wanted bragging rights back at the station...

After that - I'm thinking tints would be more trouble than they're worth... don't want to give them any more excuses.

Loving it though! Only, it does feel like it's doing 5mph when I'm doing 40mph...

Alright cool wenever u can just post some!! I'm looking at spraying mine black or like a mettalic grey to match my carbon fang cover and i got 50% tints aswell... here is a picture of mine...

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congrats and welcome aboard. nice Z:tup:

That law in the UK is the same as California. What a bummer :shakes head:

Nice.

I'm getting a Storm White GT in 2 weeks and been looking for matt black wheels in 20" but there's no choice in the UK, only 19". I've decided to get the stock wheels coloured and wondered if you got someone to do them for you or did them yourself - and if so what you did and how it turned out.

They look good on the pictures :rofl2:

Cheers, Paul.

Currently Azure Blue 350Z GT, soon to be Storm White 370GT (had a red 300ZX Twin Turbo as well).

Congrats. Time to change your "Drives:" tag :)

Sorry been too busy to take any more with better lighting... Like the carbon fangs :-) Not for me though... I've been looking at the Mines carbon splitter and don't think the carbon fangs will look as good with that... Want to lower and do exhaust before I get to that...

Thanks man... done! :-)

I had it done by a body-shop recommended by the dealer first. They did a poor job and used a solvent-based paint without keying the surface properly.

I kerbed the wheels a while after and the shoddy work was revealed because the finish couldn't be repaired... paint was flaking off because it hadn't bonded properly... so had to be completely re-done.

I took it to ChipsAway in St. Albans who had the wheels stripped back to the metal, rekeyed, primed/powder-coated, finished in black-gloss water-based paint and lacquered. Cost £75 per wheel... took a few days but was worth it.

Much better finish and repairable now... I know this because a broken-kerb protruding from the pavement chipped the rim and with the exception of the small chip, the rest of the paint stayed on... no flaking... Took it back to them and they touched in the chip with some black paint. You have to go very close to see where they've done it... They said they could repair it in an hour or two so it would be completely unblemished but it was such a small chip and was so hard to notice once touched in that I decided that it wasn't worth repairing back to a perfect finish for now. Now used to the width of the car so don't expect any more kerbing... lol! Probably will repair soon.

Matt-black? Hmmmm... not sure how that will look with the Storm White paint and glossy-black b-pillar... Try it in photo-shop first.