What colour wheels?

[ian4455]

can't decide to either leave my wheels all white or have them gold and polished rim, which looks best?

[wayneb911]

Buddsy

Have you seen chrome powder coat befor. IMO it is not a great finish and you may be dissapointed. I would reccomend polishing the rims and then having them clear powder coated for protection.

[ian4455]

This is the pic your talking about....

[scottmgibb]

mmm...

oops... too slow!

[wayneb911]

I prefer the previouse picture those wheels look a lot bigger in that one!!

[ian4455]

....polish and leave I wouldn't do speaking from experience !

I polished some motorcycle rims on a bike i hand a few years ago and what a nightmare I had keeping them looking clean.

[wayneb911]

Polish and leave is hardwork i did my R6 bike frame and swingarm. Lookied great but a whole load of work to look after. Best bet is to clear coat with Powder coat. Also have you tried paint stripper tons of it and then high pressure washer? May work or just give them to s trippers. Could have the centres powder coated gold to but more cost etc

[mr.oogieboogie]

gold will be cool

[silverfrost]

Ian,

I personally think your wheels look great in white, I liked the look of your car when first saw it,

p.s never mind painting the wheels get the thing on road and cosmetics will soon be the last thing on your mind with that v8 howl and much faster sppeds and a grin thats hard to hide! trust me.

Regards danny

[Trevsked]

Mine are split rims so were easier to polish the rims and paint the centres. Mine were done at BJV. A year on the paint still looks good but who knows how long it will last. Took a month though.

Trevor.

[th4neuk]

Hiya,

me and dave re-did mine gold as they were naff and 2 were new so were silver. We used a volvo colour which is quite nice.

Cheers

Alan

Edited September 15, 2009 by th4neuk

[ian4455]

Danny, yes know what you mean about the sound and can't wait to drive it again, it's been over a year now since i took it off the road.

While I'm waiting for my radaitor to get finished and my new fans to arrive i've started looking at other bits and pieces...which sort of asks the question just how far do you go!

Anyway it should pass the MOT, although the shockers are ok although they look terrible.

[pyropolymer]

+1 for white...

[Loose Cannon]

+2, looks great as is. Personally I think the gold-centre idea only looks good on pukka split rims, the BBS lattice centre is too small and intricate to carry it off, makes the wheel look small.

[richardvg]

gold and silver !

richard

[Simon350S]

Gold is the best colour on these wheels without question.

However you need a nice blue car with gold striping to really carry it off

[ian4455]

...yes those look well, now wondering about white and polished rims ?!?

[cbclotus]

Hi Buddsy.i have polished two sets of bbs wheels on both of the esprits i have owned.Iused paint stripper on the rims then scraped off paint with a painters scrape triangular in shape .i know its hard work .Maybe some thing to do with the paints priemers used on alloy wheels.But once through the paints .progressive grads of wet and dry .Then use soap filled brillo pads .............Dont tell the wife............and keep going untill you can polish with solvite etc .But it can be done at very little out lay .Good luck Mike

[dodgey_rog]

Although, your graphics are red, why not do the wheel centres red instead? I remember seeing a batch of G cars with colour coded wheels to their graphics, black, gold and red, they look quite good actually.

Will have to find a pic and show you.

[hylandmotorsport]

I reconditioned my wheels my self and they look top, even if I do say so myself!

I had a few quotes for polishing and painting/powder coating and they were all way too expensive.

[hopo]

They look "wheely good" no seriously they do. I quite fancy getting the centre of mine done. that silvery stuff you speak of sounds like the buisness

[hylandmotorsport]

Spotting is very fine filler, you can also high build primer to do the same job, one manufacturer of the high build primer even calls it 'high build primer with spotting. I'd think it'd be easier to do the spotting seperatly but I'm sure the other would work too.

The silver I used isn't the hyper silver, just alloy wheel silver paint, I applied it with an aerosol so it really is a job any one can attempt at home. My wife's green house was empty so duruing the summer it was ideal to paint in (funny she didn't agree it was a good place to paint) when the wheel was ready to paint I placed it in the green house for a while to heat up and then applied lots of thin coats of the silver, with the heat the paint dried super fast!

The only thing that was brushed was the black, engine enamel would be perfect, I wish I'd thought of using that, I used a hamerite version.

If you are painting your centres by brush don't be disheartened after the first coat, it will need two costs. The gold might need more. I didn't mask when I was painting the centres as I didn't wnt to lift and new paint from the rim. I have a steady hand so just took my time and painted to the line that is on the rim already.

I think I spent half a hour doing each coat of black on each rim.

I hope this helps!