Okay guys I've finally decided to paint these 4th gen prelude wheels (15x6.5) I have sitting around. They are currently stripping, and when I get them totally free of paint and cleaned, I want to paint them, but I'm just not sure what color. So help me out, please! Right now I'm thinking about just doing it silver then clearcoating it, but I'm also open to gunmetal or something else, I'm just not sure if it will look good. Anyways..

Here's a picture of the wheels:


And a picture of the car (5th gen accord, gold/champagne color):

 

maybe graphite gunmetal? not flat black or anything dull

 

Red.

 

Silver.

 

yea, some kind of gunmetal color

 

gunmetal

 

I'm thinkin' a light-ish gunmetal would look pretty good.

 

Lime Green with a pink center! Splatter black dots on them and if anybody asks, they're special edition watermellon wheels!

 

pink, with blue polka-dots.

 

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2nd that

 

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i like to see that too

 

BLACK!!!

 

I like the watermelon idea!J/k, maybe graphite or black would look good.

 

I would do a lighter than normal gunmetal or just keep em bright silver. Actually...bright silver is starting to sound better.

 

I would've left them stock but I guess it's too late now... maybe a light gun metal

 

I would have kept them stock too, except there were lots of scratches and curb marks that i wanted to sand down, and it just didn't look the same after that. So painting it is pretty much my cheapest option. The general consensus seems to be either gunmetal or silver... so I'll paint one wheel of each color and see which I like better.

Anyways, thanks for the input and ideas.

 

is that aircraft stiper and wont that eat up the tire??

 

yeh thats stripper **** turns your tires brown. but um

rustoleum night black metallic!!!!!!! looks good its a good i painted my wheels ill post up if you wanna see...

 

Gold with polished lip. That would look badass.

 

keep em silver.

 

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Yeah, I used the Aircraft Stripper from walmart, but ran out of it and used some other stripping thing. It doesn't eat up the tire, as the chemicals are designed to just penetrate paint down to the surface. Hell, I left the stripping stuff on overnight, and it wiped right off in the morning. It leaves a brownish residue, but it'll come off easily.

 

Just finished one of the wheels. I'll eventually paint the H in the center cap black.. I think that would look pretty good.
Before:


After:

 

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should of paint them GOLD

 

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Haha.. gold would look absolutely horrible on my car

But I am going to paint another wheel gunmetal just to test the waters.. We'll see.