Plasti dipped my wheels

bkcheong · Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:06 am

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)?

murcod · Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:07 am

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".

Wonson92 · Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:55 am

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??

bkcheong · Tue Sep 10, 2013 3:57 am

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.

bkcheong · Tue Sep 10, 2013 5:02 am

Chrome strip on my boot lip. Before and after shots

Wonson92 · Tue Sep 10, 2013 1:49 pm

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

bkcheong · Tue Sep 10, 2013 11:45 pm

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

murcod · Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:47 am

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.

bkcheong · Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:22 am

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!

murcod · Wed Sep 11, 2013 6:25 am

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?