painted sawblades
 

anybody that painted thier rims b4,
what brand or type of paint did you use?
any clearcoat needed?
was the stock rim paint stubborn to be removed?

id like to know too.. i was thinking of painting them black, and leave the little lip around it silverish.. i think it would look good?

this is what i got planned
black rims with the chrome lip
then white one the side inner edges of the sawblades
and undecided with center cap,

im bored right now so im jus gonna buy the paint and get on with this project
i'll post pics as soon as i get one done

I painted my stock wheels black with krylon all purpose paint, which is good for inside or outside use. First i removed the paint with aircraft remover which works great usually about two coats of that will get all the paint and grease off. I painted them black and the next day went over them with one coat of clear and they look great and they don't chip at all!

this is what i got

the aircraft paint remover works beautifully, jus be sure to get it covered
then it came off like paper, no brushing , i just rubbed it with a towel

and then the rest in the nucks and cranny i jus used a garden hose to flush em out

after that, the hardest was laying the tape down since the wheel is round and the tape doesnt curve pretty good

so i cut out a lot of 2 inch tapes and meticulusly made a curve
it wasnt the best but it did the job

its not enkei or hart rims
but this is pretty good to me
for 40 bucks i can have breathe new life to my rims

i also painted the center cap chrome, its not the best chrome job it looks like a very shiny silver paint but you get the chrome effect

niiice!! i like :D now.. you need pics with it on a car, and.. u should take a pic with the center cap on if its dry :D maybe paint where it says toyota on the center cap, black? might be hard tho. good job :drool: also.. i take it the black paint isnt that even around the edges? because you had to tape it? wonder if there would be any way to avoid that.. hmm

omg i might do a metallic blue lip. :drool:

thats the color that i wanted for the center cap but they ddnt have it

the lip wasnt painted at all, it was jus the polishd aluminum that gave it that chrome look

and it looks better than the spray-on chrome,
you could paint the rims blue and have the lip

the paint is around the rims, but there's jus sum rough edges thats hard to avoid since this wasnt a professional job

all i had was sum masking tape and spraypaint,

but this was s first try

i can always do it again, paint removal wasnt so hard

i jus took a pic with the center cap on,

the center cap wasnt supposed to get painted tonite but i got bored and i wanted to see what the chrome paint lookd like so , dont be suprised that it looks crappy

tomoro ill take a pic with then on the car, so everybody can see how it looks like b4 they embark on painting thier own rims

Omfg!!!!
 

i jus made my rims look like a cop car rims
i jus realized that when i was looking at the pics

look at how similar they look

this makes me wanna change the paintjob A.S.A.P.

today i used a new method in masking ther rims and it workd beautifully

resulting in a smoother finish, and a more clean looking edge job

altho it kinda highlighted the fact that its a small rim when it was on the car
it made the car look like it has a big ass wheel well

That did come out pretty good. After you put the aircraft remover on/off, did they look all shiny like that? i have a whole gallon of that stuff, It just says aircraft remover on it lol. I was gona say, If you want to just paint them, You dont need to strip the paint off lol, Just sand it. But too late now. They do like nice tho, even if it makes em look smaller.

i think if you paint over the old paint it wont come out as smooth as it did,
plus the aircraft remover.
suppose to be paint remover, it works magic with dirt too, my rims lookd new
i dunt know why in the blades in the inside edges the paint would go, but it did get cleaned with the aircraft remover and it lookd new