anyone have photoshop i wanna see how my car would look with my rims black.......can you spray paint aluminum wheels???

I am not a big fan of black wheels on a black car. The wheels are the only thing that sets the black color out. My opinion.

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Everyone and their brother will tell you that you can't paint aluminum wheels, but I'm here to tell you that you can. Take em off the car, its alot easier... sand em with a scuff pad (you can get em at wal-mart or any parts store.. its the marroon or green pads in the paint section).. scuff em up really good.. wash em really good.. let em dry really good, preferably in the sun... then mask off the tiresand apply light coats... I found that the Rustoleum paint works best. I've never painted wheels black though.. I've always used the aluminum color and my wheels looked brand new when I finished. Good luck Bro.. Hope it works out for ya.

Yup, I'll do it for you. It'll be a little hard since the picture isnt high-resolution, but I'll attempt.

Got it
Doesnt look very good, but it should give you an idea.


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Just as told you black wheels will look like crap on a black car. My suggestion is if you want black wheels just don't clean the brake dust off them and you will have the same results.[sm=roll.gif]

hey im selling my rims and the nittos on the back if u like cragar style/ torque thrust style rims giv me a shout just wanna sell them asap so let me know

Yeah I didn't think they would look that great either... but hey, everyone has their own opinion.

i know im color blind but they look kidna greenish like that

Well the trees can give that effect cause they are in the background... but thats basically what they'll look like is you go with a flat black. I would have no idea how to make gloss black wheels with Photoshop...

the gloss will look much better. i get compliments everywhere I go on my wheels

I am sure it will look hot...make sure you get deep dish/staggered in back....

i wanna do it but im not sure about sanding the alumin because a low grit would just scrath it wouldnt it? and if i dont sand it i will just get paint drips all over them

Sand them wet with a scuff pad and comet... thats all you need. Then wash em with dishwashing liquid and let em dry really good.I've done it several times man, I promise you it will work.

niceee i think im gonna wait till spring to do it or when it warms up atleast

Speaking of photoshoping. Give me a good picture of your car from the side and a good picture of the rim you want from the side and I could photoshop them in nicely as if they were actually on the car.

thats the only picture of the car that i have and those were the rims i was gonna do it too...ill take some more pictures of my baby tomorrow

i'm a sucker for black...these z06 replicas ran me $500 shipped to me from ebay
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and i painted the rims on my winter beater flat black, left the lip and lug nuts silver finish (I used Hi-temp engine enamel)
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just sand the rim down, spray the paint (I would use gloss in your case) put 2 coats on, and then put 1 or 2 coats of clear spray (wetsand in between all coats)

im jealous but i really dont wanna buy new rims so i figured why not spray paint them :D

yea really it's kind of hard to **** it up

I did my avenger rims in ~30 mins while the rims were on the car.

i'm gonna sand them down off the car and apply a gloss black and a few coats of clear sometime to make them look better

what did you just tape off you tires?

I've never had much luck with the spray paint clear coats...But if you decide to use it make sure you spray really light coats and give it plenty of time in between coats to dry.I think if you leave the lip silver it would look better than painting the whole rim. And if you take em off the car all you'll have to mask off is the tire... and well, I would mask the valve stem too, that way they dont "look" spray painted.

or u all could stop being red neck cheap asses and buy my rims and tires....lol but it all sounds very ricer with the spray paint so plz stop talkin about it, brings out the trailor trash in the camaro hahaha

Why not just have them black powder coated?There is ashop that will do it for $40 a rim here where I'm at. It will look better and last way longer. Maybe you can find a shop in your location.

I taped off the lip and tires, sanded them, prmied them, sprayed them with black caliper paint, and clear coated them. Put them on and like 6 months down the road they still look amazing, for about 30 bux. Don't powdercoat stock rims, it's not worth it, you can almost buy new ones for that.

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or u all could stop being red neck cheap asses and buy my rims and tires....lol but it all sounds very ricer with the spray paint so plz stop talkin about it, brings out the trailor trash in the camaro hahaha



Hey man I had mine up on blocks yesterday.. fit right in with the white trash crowd, lol... actually I just pulled the front tires up on a couple bricks so I could get under it to change the oil... But I made sure I called my girlfriend and told her my camaro was up on blocks in the front yard (with a slow southern drawl of course).. HaHa

yeah but i work at king kullen and $30 sounds a lot better than over $1000 so ill just be a "redneck" and make it all "ricer"

haha im planning to do the same thing. i just bought some gloss black engine enamel.

www.tirerack.com (http://www.tirerack.com) u can put ur car in there and pick out black rims. It shows you an image of your car with the rims

Alright I just did this really quick in class, but it should give you an idea.

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www.tirerack.com (http://www.tirerack.com) u can put ur car in there and pick out black rims. It shows you an image of your car with the rims
tried useing that but they didn't have crap black primer as a paint option ... j/k thanks for the link

WASH THEM WITH SOAP AND WATER THEN WIPE THEM WITH LIGHT LAQUOR THINNER RAG
THEN PAINT THEM AND CLEAR THEM SO THEY WILL LOOK RIGHT, AND THE PAINT WONT FLAKE OFF WHEN THEY GET HOT FROM THE BRAKE ROTORS.

took a look at a few of ur posts, and:

if nobody has chewed u out yet for typing in caps allow me to be the first. My name is SpecterGT260 and I am the resident forum anal retentive. several of your posts, in fact every one i checked, were in all capitol letters. this is incredibly irritating. You are inside of a forum, so lets use our indoor voices shall we? Thank you

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took a look at a few of ur posts, and:

if nobody has chewed u out yet for typing in caps allow me to be the first. My name is SpecterGT260 and I am the resident forum anal retentive. several of your posts, in fact every one i checked, were in all capitol letters. this is incredibly irritating. You are inside of a forum, so lets use our indoor voices shall we? Thank you
and he is also the resident forum guy who puts the gayest picture of a car in his sig. if I drove that, I wouldn't be that proud of a snowbank rider like that. I would lie andtell everyone it was a rental, and I would only drive it at night J/K[sm=happybounce.gif]

u prolly lurk in the 1st gen section too much to know me, here is my summer sig ;)

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f99/fargen_noogen/CRUsig.jpg

but u gotta give some love to the elantra [8D]

ok so black rims dont seem too popular, but what about the black 35 anniversary trans am wheels on a pewter(dark silver) 2000 firebird??

there are rims that are like 6 spoke i think and three are black and the other three are brushed. i think it looks sick some mustang has them on around me

I'm not a fan of all black wheels. Makes the car look like an SUV. The rim should be polished, and the spokes gloss black. Or vice versa.

^^^ thread resurector[>:]

my black rims lookgreat! :D

Thread resurector? Give me a break, I've been posting for less than a day! I could go find one from a long time ago...... naw. Guess I got carried away reading the thread.

I personally have never seen painted rims that don't look painted no matter how good you are at painting. The paint starts to chip away with the rocks, heat ...etc. You can get black rims off of ebay or Tomzwheels for about $500 new. I know its not $30 but I've never been a fan of doing things half assed on a Camaro. Just my .02