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Ever thought about a gloss black, instead of flat?

SmoothMX3 wrote:Ever thought about a gloss black, instead of flat?

ya i was thinking to do gloss
i went to canadian tire to pick up the paint
they had special paint for rims only the flat black & the bronze caught my eye
they didnt have much to chose from so i jus kinda had to go with that black
the red that i have is the one i used to paint my wiper blades so im going to try and do the outline with that red see how it turns out

lol doing my red outline failed so i might be forced to keep it all black
might put up some pics in a couple days when the paint completely drys

You can suspend a wheel, spin it, and lightly put a brush with red paint on it, holding it still, and letting the spinning wheel make a perfect ring. You can anchor your arm on the wheel well.

fowljesse wrote:You can suspend a wheel, spin it, and lightly put a brush with red paint on it, holding it still, and letting the spinning wheel make a perfect ring. You can anchor your arm on the wheel well.

lol u serious?
wat i was going to try and do is tape newspaper on the black part excluding the outer part i want to paint and spraying it red.

OR you can buy a vinyl strip in red.. I think it's called Rim Strip.. I've seen it on sportbikes..

jus finished putting the rims on for winter!
here are some pics
no red outline though

Hey they look great. I think I might do that with my spare GS rims for winter. Nice work.

YAY no red, I'm sorry but when people put them on stock wheels it just looks bad. You don't have time attacks so don't pretend like you do

wytbishop wrote:Hey they look great. I think I might do that with my spare GS rims for winter. Nice work.

thx, it was actually done really quick & easy
i was thinking of selling my other rims if these came out good
but ima keep'em just use these for winter only!

tint your windows!!!
rims look sweet man

If you wanted to do the red outline, why didn't you?
It's not that hard bro.

lol thnx tmac! window tint i'll be doing sometime in the beginning of next summer

and smooth, i didnt even attempt because what i did was i painted the wheels black and then i was going to do the red outline
i think what i should have done iss do the red outline first, let it dry, tape around the red outline, then paint then inside black.
so what im going to do is probably do it next summer because im too lazy to do it now lol or maybe next winter

I also picked up some clear front & side markers from Jeff yesterday
pics ill put up 2morrow !

The wheels look sweet! I can also be lazy, so here is a lazy idea. Get fine line red pin strip from an auto body supply place and cheat by using the wheel lip as a guide. The guy I bought my MX-3 off of is supposed to drop off the wheels (same as yours). I am going to paint them black and put them on my daily driver 323.

Just put in some clear front & side markers