Update ---------------------
Finished both wheels. Turned out like ****. The chrome spray was so thin and ran like [freak]ing ***** so I had to respray the black gloss because it got all over it. I'll have to slowly work on them. Lightly sand after a few days once it's fully dried and get the chrome that ran in streaks and ****.

Here they are:


Wheel 1:


Wheel 2:



Modified by amej8 at 1:51 PM 4/1/2008

 

I don't see anything ricey about it. Looks good to me!

 

you painted the weight on the lip....

 

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Yup . I painted the valve stem too. Seeing how I don't want to waste money taking the tire, weights, and valve stem off, I just figured I'd do it as is. I don't have any spare wheels and I wanted to do it quick just to see what it would look like so I just did it. I've done 2 wheels now (both need a few more coats) and it took me 30 minutes including taping, prepping /w index cards & newspaper, and taking my wheels off.

Besides, if I end up keeping the steelies the way they are heading now, I can just take my sweet *** time and sand it off the lip and valve stem.

 

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"This here son is a big no no".....hahaha....I don't see anything ricer about it

 

2 wheels done.

 

Oh there it is, there donuts, to you cause I couldn't muscle up the energy to work on steelies, no matter how bad they look you could just throw on hubbies thats what did

 

 

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Thanks haha. Yeah I plan on slapping the hubbies on if it looks terrabad.

I'm just working with what I have *shrug*. No money for rims so why not paint steelies.

 

I'm in the same boat as you and I just slapped on the hubbies...rolled to the H-T like that and was even complimented on them as well.

 

Painted Steelies?!? There only temporally right? Or you got bored?

 

im diggin em

 

My brother did this with 15" '01 civic steelies with low pro 205/50/15s, combined with H center caps they looked awesome..

 

Yeah ideally, I REALLY wanted to get the 7th gen steelies for the bigger wheel but no money . So I just stuck with my 14" ones and went from there. I might put these on just to see what they look like and put my rando spares back on. I don't want to drive with them yet.

 

u cant be for real

 

so far so good man....!

 

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LOL @ spending money on steelies

 

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Special thanks goes out to you dude lol. For helpin me a bit with the info and gettin me started on this idea .

 

I love our late night ideas..!! hahahaa

 

Hell yeah haha

 

Did that to mine a few years ago, but used silver, not chrome.

 

Does anyone think I should do a clear coat on the entire thing? The chrome has been drying for about 8 hours now and when I lightly rub it, a tiny bit of the chrome comes off onto my fingers...

 

looks koo!

 

lol. i think its rice to paint steelies at all.

but decent work was done

 

looks better than the blades, si's and other oem wheels painted