what color to paint my wheels?
 

I want a change with my wheels and cant afford new ones lol, so what color should I paint them? bronze, graphite, black?

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pink

outta the 3 i guess bronze

but if it were me, i'd prob bring them back to life witha nice silver/nickel color

lol darn, duplicolor doesent make pink. Im leaning toward bronze.

tony- I really just want something different than silver.

voted bronze

dude sweet, imma def. go out and get some cans of bronze tomorrow.

http://gallery.y8s.com/d/663-4/DSC00741.jpg

also voted bronze

http://duplicolor.com/gallery/galler...s/wheel_05.jpg

the bronze or gunmetal.

Bronze for sure

leave them.

Bronze
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my 6UL 15x9's were bronze but I noticed more atention to my car so I painted them black. The less atention you get means the less the cops will look at you, If you look like some kid in a civic with a body kit the cops will treat you like one.

This thread rocks...I'm in the same boat(black NA with flower power wheels), and strippin' em down and painting as soon as finals are over.

I'm pretty sure I'm going with black. Have some crappy photoshops if you care to see them.


This guy did a really good job on the gunmetal:

http://forum.miata.net/vb/showthread...&highlight=wow

but they didn't look as badass (too light) when I cropped them onto my car. Pics are on laptop at home, will post up if I ever make it home.

Get rid of the damn center caps.





And bronze.

crappy chops

Bronze FTW

alright, all you guys voting bronze need to provide some pics of a black NA with daisies. I couldn't find a good lookin' one when I was debating it a few weeks back.

Paint the spokes satin black, but paint the rim GunMetal, also the removable center cap, paint that gun metal too. Do it now, pussy.

found some: (this is thebeerbaron's car)

www.miataturbo.net/forum/t27428/

Whatever you do, leave the lips the factory silver, or aluminum or chrome.

Otherwise it will take from the rims.

We painted the mazda letters red later. It changed everything. It made them look tough.

Good Luck!

^^I was going to do that, but paint it black all the way up to the outside ring, so there is no portion of the spoke going into the silver. Just black, with a solid silver ring.

Oh yeah, and sans center caps and ghey windblocker (should have a rollbar there soon!)

Interesting, dident think of leaving the lip silver. I think im going to go with bronze and a silver lip. Will two cans of paint be enough you think?

1 can of color should be enough to do all 4 wheels. Then clear coat them with the wheel clear coat.

yeah, unmask the lip and clear the whole wheel.

Yea that is my friends car. LOL

I don't like the wind blocker either.

If the letters are not to be painted, I would ditch the center caps.

I need to get some pictures since he painted the Mazda letters Red. They look much meaner.

White spokes, yellow center.

I have herd bad things about the clear, makes the color more yellow. Plus it will be easyer to touch up if I dont use clear.

I've heard a lot of folks tell me any polished aluminum part will "quickly" oxidize...but I'm thinking about taking my chances, and just touching up paint and polish occasional.

leave them the wheels stock colored.

+1 on the BRONZE ... Post a pic of your new bronze wheels :)

the picture Pitt showed is one sweet example.

oxidation gives aluminum a glossy layer that protects it from further oxidation. it may be harder to clean to a mirror shine.

Here's a set I just painted yesterday. Well stripped then painted. I still have to clean up the spokes but the paint isn't completely dry yet.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...h_IMAG0076.jpg

edit: forgot the pic...