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wheel painting

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:59 pm
by shuggy
i want to keep my stock rims but i wana make them look good, so the plan is to paint the wheel dark black, paint the writing on the hubcap white, do a 10mm thick red ring around the edge of the rim and paint the tyre white.. what do you rekon thir will look like? anyone got any photos of whitewall tyres or custom stock rims painted/customized in any way? i just love the hubcap haha

Re: wheel painting

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:06 pm
by 75wagon
I heard an old Hot Rodding trick, and that was about White wall tyres. Was told if you painted your tyres with exterior acrylic paint (water based) then it would stick.
I tried it, results not good I'm sorry. It just cracked and looked like s__t.
You can buy rubber white walls. They put them between your tyre and the rim and then pump your tyre back up. That's the best you can do now. They look really good, but if you gutter bashed them I can't imagine they'd stand up to it very well.

But if reference to your question, I think it would look cool :thumpsup:

Re: wheel painting

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:33 pm
by 77galantv6
get your tyres white walled....

im getting mine done soon.

im going with this....

Image

costs around 100 bucks for all tyres.
lasts a fair while, can get different colours and styles too.

Re: wheel painting

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:37 pm
by 75wagon
I'd forgotten about that. You can do multiple colours too.
I almost bought white walls for my wagon..... The guy ordered them for me and My wife threw the number away. :facepalm: She says by accident. :hit:

Re: wheel painting

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 10:50 pm
by shuggy
yeh rekon its gonna look mad - il look into it :thumpsup:

Re: wheel painting

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:04 am
by luke77
Maxxis tyres do some sizes with a white ring on the tyre, about and inch thick from memory. We deal with Maxxis so I can hunt up some tyre sizes available with these if you'd like?