hey, was looking to get my rims powder coated. For thoose of you that dont no i have a twilight blue coupe with a blacked out grill. Plans for the future include tinted tails, window tints and hopefully a lot of carbon fibre lol. Should i get the rims coated black or should they be a darkish gold/bronze since that colour looks nice with twilight blue. Kind of like the colour of gold/bronze volks. I got oem 18's

 

Hmmmm wats a ricer

 

ooo god LOL i opened this thinkin i was gonna get some input LOL. Im so torn between this. If i go black id get blue lugs to and looks ill with tb buh so does the bronze.

 

ricer= racer with bad taste ,huge spoilers and gino sense of ownership

 

is it safe to PC oem 19's??

 

I don't know how well your photo-shoping skills are, but there a numerous threads with before and after pics of powder coated oem 18's. Have a look through them and see what you can do with a photo of yours.

 

^i dun mean photoshop i mean powdercoating...sorry for not making it clear...cause ppl say its not safe to powdercoat forged rims can anybody cofirm this

 

yes it is. I've pc'd two sets. The wheels are forged so outgassing will not be as big of an issue as a cast wheel. More importantly, and I think the direction you are headed, the oven temp during a typical powder coating operation should not be more than 400°F and should be about 20-30 minutes. This is well below the temperature and time required to change the grain structure of the aluminum.

If you are going to powder coat the wheels then make sure you get a clear powder finish. It's well worth the extra ~$20 per wheel.

 

hey thanks for the info twin but if i decide to pc'd them should i tell the people thats gonna do it bout that tip you gave me just to be in the safe side???

also if i get a clear powder finish would that limit my color choices???? what exactly is the diff. between getting clear powder finish and not getting it

 

If someone does them in the GTA please let me know how much it cost.

 

I know of a place in Cambridge that does it, I am going in to get a quote on my OEM 17s I'll let you know what they charge so you know how much you should be looking at.

 

Would they fix the curb rash or just paint over it?

 

so no one actually answered my question lol.....and there are alot of ppl that do them in the GTA, im getting mine done for 200,

 

200 for all 4? and they fix the rash?

 

OH ya to answer your question, you should go with black.