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Painting my rims... what do you think?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:45 pm
by teal_dx
Ok as you know I'm in the process of painting my car, my new color doesn't go with my daily driver wheels...

Original:
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And here's the wheels on the other side of the car:
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(yeah that's right my rims don't match, but nobody ever sees both sides of the car at the same time so that's how I roll :crazy: ) One of the ADR's got curbed and they're out of production, so I got 2 Enkei DM6's (same size 16x7") off ebay for $60.

So... I was gonna paint the rims Satin black since they would stand out less and I like black wheels with my new green paint:
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Then I thought what if I had polished lips...
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nah, looks like every other rim out there...

What about a Anodized Red Lip:
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I thought it would look like Christmas, but I actually like it!

What about a Anodized Orange Lip:
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It's definitely different, I've never seen rims with an orange lip... But it looks a little like a Pumpkin color scheme, no?

What about a Smoked Clear lip?
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It's different... I like it better than the polished lip, less bling.

So overall I'm thinking:
All black (easiest to paint), or Red lips, or Smoked clear lips.

What do you all like? :?

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:50 pm
by ChicagoMike
First off that was pretty sick!

Second......All Black, just looks killer.

Hang on, Let me see if I can find a pic of my car on all black rims.....

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:52 pm
by ChicagoMike
All black Slips that I used to have......

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:13 pm
by eg_madness
http://www.kris.1000lecie.pl/civicpics/008.jpg



maybe it looks better like this one...

PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:18 pm
by chnzgoofball
black with polish lip looks hella clean

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:24 am
by vtec_gloucester
black with polished lip FTW

suits the car alot... love it. :)

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 12:19 pm
by fresh eh2*
i like the red lip that shyt look ffiiyaahh!!

PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 11:57 pm
by LaMbErT*
I think black with red lip imo

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:00 am
by sihatch9508
either black w/ chrome lip or black with smoked clear lip

PostPosted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 7:14 am
by asianrob
Teal w/ polished lip :shock: or white with red lip :o