What's up h-t! I'm a frequent contributor to the 92-00 Civic forum, but spend little time in any other section. I've never shown my car before, so I figured there was no better time then when I take off my snows for the summers.

I've always loved gold wheels on a red car...and curiousity got the best of me. I went ahead and picked out a gold I liked, and some clearcoat designed specifically for wheels. If you look closely, you can see I made the insides of the wheels bronze, and the faces gold. I hope there's no more snow coming!

Car: 2000 Civic DX "Special Edition" hatch

This is how I bought the car a couple years ago (bone stock, 1-owner car):


This is how it looks now (sorry about the blurry pictures...they were taken with a BB Curve):

 

it looks ok

personally I think its kind of typical- gold painted stock wheels-

I persoanlly think they would be better polished- they would have more contrast with the red.

keep up the good work though

 

painted oem wheels are gay. sorry just my opinion.

 

if you want them to look really clean... in an easy way- you should get the silver wheel paint they sell-

its a nice silver with alot of metallic in it-

get them looking minty-

 

I got these wheels in rough shape...so I painted them. If they were fresh they never would have been painted.

Yeah, I would prefer gold to silver though. I should get a proper digital camera and get better pictures. The wheels look so much better in person than these stupid phone pics.

 

clean it really nice and get some shots with a tripod- or a makeshift one-

you are right, the pictures dont do it justice-

try taking some shots with the wheels straight in the front, instead of turned

 

Agreed.

 

Take off wing, paint wheels silver or polish

 

i was hoping you were spray painting sharks

 

It looked better how it was when purchased.

 

 

What would you have done differently?

 

do it back like this:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/h.../hatchcopy.jpg

 

Thanks for the photoshop

I'm a big fan of polished wheels, but when I bought these rims one of them had a scratch. Sanding and painting pretty much took care of it, but if I polished it it would be easily visible. Unless I go pay to get them professionally done somewhere...I guess that's an option.

 

I personally think

although you just painted them-

if you got this paint:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/image...ery-tools_.jpg

and did primer and the silver and the clear- they would look soooo clean-

I just think when you add a color to a stock wheel, like gold- it takes away from the "simple" look of the wheel-

which is why they look so good silver-

but thats just my opinion- do what you want!

if you want anything else photoshopped- just let me know- lips, etc.

 

 

gold fat 5's ftl i would rather polish them then paint fat 5's