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Instead of spending money on a new set of rims, I thought I'd try plasti dipping them in matte black. Here's the result. However, I'm still 50/50 about the look. Your thoughts, comments (good/bad)?

It looks good (and I'm not normally a fan of black wheels.) Would the centre caps and nuts being black improve it - photoshop it for an experiment perhaps?

PS: The black ties in with the window surround trims, so it certainly doesn't look "out of place".

Looks really good with the centre cap and nuts still chrome! Breaks it ip a bit. Whats the strip along the bottom of your doors??

I put the chrome strip beneath the doors myself. I've also put a strip at the bottom of the boot lid for added effect. Will post some proper pics later. Yeah, at first, I was going to plasti dipped the centre cap and nuts as well, but decided against it. Now I think the wheels look better with the contrast.

Chrome strip on my boot lip. Before and after shots

If you told me that was factory, i'd believe you! Good job. Did you shape them aswell?

Yes, very easy to shape. & I just trimmed off the ends with scissors.

I was bored and wanted to see if I could get it looking reasonable using my limited image manipulation skills.

I left the front wheel "as is" for a comparison.

Hey Murcod, thanks for the effort (and your boredom!?)! I must admit, the wheel looks good with everything blacked out. Can't decide between the 2! As a matter of fact, still weighing up whether to plasti dip the other 2 wheels! (Yes, at the moment only 2 wheels have been done). I'll just wait and see how the plasti dip stand up when I take my car to the car wash.
Cheers!

bkcheong wrote:Hey Murcod, thanks for the effort (and your boredom!?)! I must admit, the wheel looks good with everything blacked out. Can't decide between the 2! As a matter of fact, still weighing up whether to plasti dip the other 2 wheels! (Yes, at the moment only 2 wheels have been done). I'll just wait and see how the plasti dip stand up when I take my car to the car wash.
Cheers!

Hey, no problems. You'd really need to buy black chrome nuts to do it- the Plastidip wouldn't last a split second once you tried to tighten them. Try Amazon.com and look at Gorilla brand, I got some from there a while back but have stuck with the factory chrome nuts (my wheel plans changed!)

I had a good chuckle at the different colours each side. I've done that before and really nobody is ever likely to notice.

PS: I guess you could spray the nuts once fitted and redo them as required?