supreme

You cannot go wrong with gunmetal. As you see, its classy. And black is too basic to me, I enjoy the contrast. Works great with any color IMO. Especially White and Black.

Randy Johnson

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Gunmetal, graphite, anthracite. Are these all the same color with different names?

blnewt

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They're all very similar shades of dark grey. Just need to see paint samples if you're going through an auto paint supply store or auto body shop.

timc00k

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I have a black coupe and i got them dipped as satin matte black.

Randy Johnson

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Agreed!!!

I saw a Nissan Maxima today with some dark gunmetalish wheels they looked great. Here they are.




Here is a link to a finish I like

rim Picture - More Detailed Picture about Free shipping Stagger 18" Nissan GTR Wheels Gunmetal Rim For Infiniti G35 G37 G35X G37X M35 M45 FX Picture in Rims & Accessories from Lucy 806623 store | Aliexpress.com | Alibaba Group

not sure why the pics are sideways. They are horizontal on laptop.

supreme

Yeah man, like the black of yesteryear. IT JUST WORKS.

Randy Johnson

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Hey man you painted these yourself or had a shop do it? I've been thinking of using the duplicolor wheel paint but want a durable professional look. If you did it what did you use? If a shop did it how much was it and how long did it take?

blnewt

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Randy, if you use a rattle can paint be sure to get a quality body-shop grade clear coat, the Dupont Acrylic Clear A-7480, Evercoat Cut-in-Clear, Spraymax 2k cut-in-clear are all top notch spray on clear coats that will do a much better job keeping your wheels looking good for a long time. The other cheap clear coats go on thin, don't dry to a hard shell and just don't have the same quality gloss finish.

If you prep your wheels well and use that quality clear coat you should get very good results (as long as you don't have a wife that gets too close to curbs, lol)

Randy Johnson

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Thanks for the recommendations blnewt. I'll check them out. You always have the answers.

beng37s

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Got a question for you guys. More of an opinion actually. So I have a black obsidian coupe and am looking to paint the wheels and calipers. I found a guy that will repair my curb rash, dip my wheels, and paint my calipers for a decent price. I'm going to do a matte anthracite gray wheel color and yellow caliper color with akebono decals. Thoughts? Think it will look good?

Landshark

most any color caliper looks good on a black car - im partial to red or yellow. same with dark gray wheels.

blnewt

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On a black G w/ dark gray wheels a burnt copper is pretty tasty IMO

beng37s

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That's a good idea. Might do that. Thanks

bikezilla

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By chance, I last week did just that.

I used Plasti-dip Smoke on my stock wheels and they came out in a nice gunmetal grey. Sort of satin finish. I tetsted some flexi-dip glossifyer (Krylon) on a sample painted with black PD but it was too sticky and not particularly glossy. Might be incompatible and work better if I used PD glossifyer. (there is a warning on the can)


Anyway the cool thing about PD Smoke is I could control the shading, coat by coat to get the darkness I felt like. It was quite easy to do.

I cleaned the rims with a shop towel soaked in brake cleaner, then stuffed index cards under the rim bead, and spayed away. It helped to have a space heater blowing on the wheel between coats while I worked on the next one.


Stock:






PD Smoke, 4-5 coats):


Sorry these are my winter wheels so I won't be mounting them for a couple of weeks yet. (Fingers Crossed)



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blnewt

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Nice look, that shade goes well on red, clean job!