Considering painting my polished steel lips red to match the tail lights (or just a classic brake red). The face of my wheel is black w/ polished rivets and center cap. Trying to see if getting a glossy red would look cool/stupid/make the lips look smaller.

If anyone got pics of their painted stuff, especially lips, please post... or post some links. I've been trying to find some w/ not much luck. If I decide I love the pics, then my own pics this weekend of my new painted wheels.

 

IMHO, if you have wheels with lips, then no. It's just too much and it'll be cheesy.





Time Attacks have a thin pinstripe of red. "Less is more."

 

apr widebody g35

http://www.aprperformance.com/index....=162&Itemid=44

 

Yeah, the time attacks is where I started to think about doing something similar. Thing is the rest of my lip would have to be painted black. There is actually a nice groove on the outside of the lip (facing out) that could be painted red to basically match those wheels. Dunno

 

post a pic man... im sure ppl here would help you w/ PSing it to your car

 

well I've PSed some pics, but it's just really hard to get realistic shadows and do a realistic paint finish on it, I'll dig some more to see if someone has done it

 

i forget his name but he painted his lips lime green. im sure he will chime in soon

 

hehe.. i PMed him last night, he's diggin up pics for me... i found some on the 350z board but one is blurry and not up-close and the other one is a darker red than i was thinking of =/...


opinions?

(sorry for using anyone's pic.. i'll take them off upon request... otherwise it's just for demonstration purposes)

 

sorry, not much love for that lip in red

 

i chopped this one real quick. the car used to be white. he did the wheels how i was thinking of doing it.

 

i've seen wheels like that before in person, and in my opinion, it doesn't look near as cool as the time attacks. IT looks a little cheesy in my opinion, like, its way too much red on there if that makes sense. Just looks a little too bold to look 'cool.' Sorry, hard to explain, but i'd say don't do it if i were you.
BUT, i'm not you, only you are you...so do what you want, its your car.
(excuse the philosophical'ness of myself just there...)

xchrisx

 

haha, nah man it's cool. I want opinions anyway. I'm split on the decision for that same reason you mentioned.

 

heres my 19 oem painted the red is a candy apple

 

Dude... whoever's car that is... it is FOCKIN SEXY!! much props to a nicely done G.

 

You think my ride looks cheesy? Funny...I get people EVERY SINGLE DAY, both male and female telling me that it looks sick as hell.

Do you?

Fvck it...can't please everyone. As long as I like it, that's all that matters