Painting Rims
 

Hey guys,

I was looking at getting some gold STI rims for my MY03, but then I thought about painting. I recently had a rim repaired and re-painted and it looks pretty damn good.

Are there any down sides or reasons not to paint rims? Also any idea what I would be looking at price wise?

Anyone got some personal experience?

Cheers :)

no real down sides... just make sure you prep and clean the surface properly otherwise you'll end up with peeling cracking paint that looks shit.

Yep, it basically comes down to how it'll look and how good (or bad) the job is...no other downsides apart from that!

Get a shop who is experienced in painting wheels, and you'll be fine.

As long as the place that does it doesnt use bang on weights for the face when balancing.

And you leave the paint to harden for like 3 days or more.

[QUOTE=BALISTC]Get a shop who is experienced in painting wheels, and you'll be fine.[/QUOTE]
i.e. - NOT Alliance Rim Repairs!! Great at repair, s*#thouse at painting!!

I got mine powdercoated by Perth PowderCoaters. (another shameless plug).
Made a huge difference not too expensive and very strong coating...check out the difference
Old
[IMG]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/2282/p9090017mg4.jpg[/IMG]
New
[IMG]http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/8503/p9160033jj0.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9581/p9240007ll1.jpg[/IMG]

PM Tim (SUBASTYLN) for more details

Thats looks awesome!!!

Thanks for the info :)

also did a set in stormfront pearl not long ago. a nice blingin grey. white car looked mint.

nightshift, what colour is your car?

wato, thanx the shameless plug.

damn if they look good in the picture how are they gonna look in person!

damn they look awesome!

what colour is it?

Cheers guys, im pretty stoked with cosmetics now. Just need some tint. Anyway the colour cannot be disclosed cos its all mine

...just jokes...its precious bronze pearl...