Sorry guys, hadn't been on for a while. So far, they've been holding up really well.

Alvie, you can pick up these products at Advance Auto or Oreilly's (sp?)

 

looks great! Thanks for post and the pics.

Question, are the Nissan and Infiniti center caps interchangable?

 

Yup.

 

Damn they look nice. Wanna come over to Pittsburgh and help me with my two sets? lol

 

nice DIY. how is the finish compared to the OE silver? are they just dirty in the last pics because the centers have a little green/yellow tint to them.

 

good stuff

 

how long did it take

 

i'm thinking about doing this on some g37 sport's. but the color on those is a lighter tone. Getting the color right is crucial, hopefully that duplex wheel paint comes in various different colors. I guess you got to have a dremel or some sort of power tool to sand down the curb rash risen damage too.

 

First, it's Duplicolor. Don't want you looking for the wrong paint. And second, you're not going to be able to duplicate the OEM color. The best you can do is use one of the stock Duplicolor colors, or have whoever's powdercoating them mix up something that's going to be close to OEM. The OEM color for the 1st Gen wheels Hyper Silver is very complex, with 6 different colors in it in varying amounts, including miniscule amounts of Magenta and Green (between them they make up less than 0.6% of the volume). But the formula I've seen (and is posted somewhere here) also uses internal Nissan color codes, so you don't really know exactly what they're referring to. They use PPG colors, but I've talked to several PPG dealers, and they didn't know those colors. The guy who posted it hadn't tested it to see if it matched, but had found the formula on PPG's website.

 

Duplicolor duplex supreme it is. Thanks.

 

thats a nice write up

 

great job, they look great

 

Nice job. I recently did a restore on my salt pitted aluminum lips on my 19 axis hiros. I blocked the lips with 220, then stepped to 400, 800, 1200. Polished the raw metal with meguires polish and cleaned them well. Hit them with 4 coates of nason clear, 1600 wet sand and finished with wizards finish cut. These wheels look better than new. An FYI for anyone with the good ole up north problem with nice wheels and salty roads. I used a high speed rotary buffer at around 2000rpms.

 

No wonder they look great on my sedan - they're colour-matched!!

Nice job, OP.

 

How did you get that mirror finish back that comes factory on the Axis? I just sanded down my set of Axis Matrix to get all of the pitting out but could never get them back to factory shine. They look great don't get me wrong, my rears have a 4.5" lip that shines right up. I went all the way to 2000 grit though wet sand. Never clear coated them because i don't want to have to do all that work over again to clean them up if I get a chip or scratch.