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Old 09-08-2007, 07:48 PM
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Default Should I Paint my Steelies Chrome??

i seen this picture of someones eg hatch in the appearance/cosmetic section of ht and thought of painting my cheap *** steelies chrome, just for some temporary cool points until i purchase some new rims.

give your opinions, thanks.

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Waste of time/effort/money IMO. Throw some hubcaps on them if you got em (OEM)
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leave them, that's sick.
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No, leave 'em be.

You might wanna throw this in the right forum (appearance/cosmetics).
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by EK9Tune &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">leave them, that's sick.</TD></TR></TABLE>

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i dont think $6 worth of paint is much of a waste of money, i dont think a couple of hours into making my eg a little more appealing is much of a waste of time, and i think cleaning and painting the steelies chrome looks much better then some plastic *** hubcaps.

im still doing it, but thanks anyways guys.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mizzoEG &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i dont think $6 worth of paint is much of a waste of money, i dont think a couple of hours into making my eg a little more appealing is much of a waste of time, and i think cleaning and painting the steelies chrome looks much better then some plastic *** hubcaps.

im still doing it, but thanks anyways guys.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Honestly, THEN DONT ASK US FOR OUR OPINIONS!!!!!

Its a waste of $6, time and it will look dumb *** hell. Maybe you need to move to cali and fit in with everyone else that does the vatozone and pep boy mod
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relax g, im all good up here in the chi.

and this is honda tech, not a pms forum.
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Dude, plain and simple.

Dark blue + gold = GANGSTER!!!
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ek forever guy &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Dude, plain and simple.

Dark blue + gold = GANGSTER!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

that picture was just an example, my car is a harvard blue and i want to paint the steelies <U>CHROME</U>. It should look better then the alloy, right?
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save your time until you buy new rims (hopefully not long)
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do it. who cares what anybody else thinks.....that's sorta the whole reasoning behind doing stuff isn't it? i painted my steelies with an alloy looking paint...looks a hell of a lot better than black and i don't have to rock hubbies that will get broken when i slide into **** (not curbs, but giant stacks of ice/snow/rocks that we get blessed with each winter )
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i would leave them how they are...bronze steelies on a blue hatch looks sleeper IMO.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SOHCejcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do it. who cares what anybody else thinks.....that's sorta the whole reasoning behind doing stuff isn't it? i painted my steelies with an alloy looking paint...looks a hell of a lot better than black and i don't have to rock hubbies that will get broken when i slide into **** (not curbs, but giant stacks of ice/snow/rocks that we get blessed with each winter )</TD></TR></TABLE>

thanks for the first positive reply, im doing it.
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by SOHCejcivic &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">do it. who cares what anybody else thinks.....that's sorta the whole reasoning behind doing stuff isn't it? i painted my steelies with an alloy looking paint...looks a hell of a lot better than black and i don't have to rock hubbies that will get broken when i slide into **** (not curbs, but giant stacks of ice/snow/rocks that we get blessed with each winter )</TD></TR></TABLE>


a good set of winter rims FTW! seriously if you got the money and time to kill go for it. i tried when i was younger and it stayed for awhile but removing all the rust was impossible and it flaked eventually. i prefer just getting another set of rims and snowies for them
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fvck you u raicist b!tch vatozone? wtf lame *** foo
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Think of it this way...the paint'll add extra weight...can't have that...


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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mizzoEG &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i dont think $6 worth of paint is much of a waste of money, i dont think a couple of hours into making my eg a little more appealing is much of a waste of time, and i think cleaning and painting the steelies chrome looks much better then some plastic *** hubcaps.

im still doing it, but thanks anyways guys.</TD></TR></TABLE>


wait.....then why the hell did i just click on this thread? HUBCAPS!!! How long are you gonna have your new sick painted steelies for? And after you're done, post em up in the App/Cos. section, everyone will love you.
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im embarrased to live near chicago....
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I would really really like to know .... that if you didn't want anyone's opinion, if you weren't going to listen to anyone's opinion, if you had already made up your mind ....

Then why the ******* hell did you waste our time with this thread?
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I have a better option to chrome:

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i'd rather throw on some hubcaps...
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You know what, I saw that same exact picture the other day, and it inspired me to paint my steelies gold. I did it 3 days ago, I decided that it looked gross, and I didn't like it the day after, then I bought new HX's that day to ditch the gay painted steelies. Lol.

Crome is ok I guess, bronze is also ok on steelies, the duplicolor bronze wheel paint, I had my steelies painted that color for a while, it was ok cuz it was subtle.
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it looks good just as is. Leave it foo
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don't know why you need our opinion on it...you've probably already made up your mind


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