painting my wheels. *now with pic*

[MrRed]

so the factory paint is coming off my wheels and I've got 2 ideas. First is black. second is a dark bronze (which I like more, but i'm not sure if thats too much of a subaru thing). my car is dark green.

 

[Johnlemon]

black, subaru bronze would make the car look douchey. Better yet get five spoke black rims, slicers are mean to be silver

 

[kevinspann]

Are you painting the slicers? The closest silver to original is what I would do.

 

[MrRed]

yeah, the factory wheels. they aren't anything special too me.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Subaru is GOLD, not bronze.



I am going bronze on my SHO:

 

[MrRed]

I am going bronze on my SHO:

ouuu I like those

 

[Johnlemon]

this

 

[MrRed]

this
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like that even more but I'm not ready to put money into rims on this car.

 

[yamahaSHO]

Those wheels wouldn't fit anyway.

 

[kevinspann]

Paint them a nice silver and be done.

 

[StreetlightSHO]

I am going bronze on my SHO:

These are going on your SHO?

Hot damn those look freaking gorgeous

 

[Rubix]

Point to be made here: Kevinspann hates black painted wheels.

Third time I've heard that from him in the past 3 days

 

[kevinspann]

Paint the damn wheels silver, anything else looks like you can't afford new wheels. Solid black slicers look like shit. Gunmetal was okay until everyone did it.

You know what? Paint them ******* green to match the car.

 

[johntaps]

I would go with silver color as shown in image. That will looks more beautiful with you car.

 

[Irish Pride]

Black Slicers FTW!

 

[MrRed]

Black Slicers FTW!

I don't see a car in this pic....

Irish Pride FTW!!

 

[Irish Pride]

I don't see a car in this pic....

Irish Pride FTW!!

you havent seen anything yet...

 

[MrRed]

you havent seen anything yet...

^this post is worthless without pics

 

[yamahaSHO]

These are going on your SHO?

Hot damn those look freaking gorgeous

Yup, got them for the SHO (although they'd probably look hawt on the STi). I wanted to get more tire under the car as the 235's weren't cutting it. These are 17x8 (x2) and 17x9 (x2)...

As much as I would like to run the 9" wheels up front, it'll have rubbing issues, so I'm going to put them in the rear. I think they'll look better there since they are deeper dished than the 8". The rear wheels always get sucked in when you lower the car, so I'm hoping it will make it look better.

Either way, I will be going with a wider and stickier tire. I think the tread wear of the current tires on these wheels is 50.

I'll be posting my old wheels/tires in the classifieds here as soon as my coilovers come in.

 

[Bob Gervais]

Paint the damn wheels silver, anything else looks like you can't afford new wheels. Solid black slicers look like shit. Gunmetal was okay until everyone did it.

You know what? Paint them ******* green to match the car.

Your string is showing.