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Topic #44407 9 posts Started by drhossa
Want to paint them in anthrazit but what paint exactly?
I like the ones from p5ycho. Which color goes in that direction? I suppose it has to be a reglar car paint, cause it's hard to find codes of rims.

My car:
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my wheels have not been painted mate,
mine have been powder coated,
the colour i used is gunmetal grey, or anthracite for use of a posh word,
if you paint the wheels you won't quite get the same finish.
my wheels were dipped in acid to remove crap chrome finish, then they were sandblasted to remove imperfections and they were powder coated in anthracite grey then finally the paint was baked in the oven for 2 hours...
hope that helps you..
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First of all, your car looks awesome smile.gif I now have your picture as my desktop wallpaper biggrin.gif

I used normal car paint on mine and they have lasted ok, 3 coats of primer, 3 coats of colour, 3 coats of clear coat.
Powder coating would be better though.

I used Ford Graphite Grey. It's quite dark like Gunmetal. There's a picture in my profile.

This post has been edited by manphibian: Jan 10, 2007 - 4:49 PM

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P5ycho is correct about painting them.. I liked his as well, tried to get mine color matched with a picture of his car. Heres how mine came out...based on his. Darker but still a wicked color.

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@p5ycho
So do your rims shine in the sun or are they matt like primer? And it seams to look metallic to me, is that right? Could I get this effect with pinting it?

@manphibian
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@p5ycho
So do your rims shine in the sun or are they matt like primer? And it seams to look metallic to me, is that right? Could I get this effect with pinting it?

@manphibian
Thx biggrin.gif


You can get metallic effect with paint, mine shine when the sun is on them, hard to see from picture.

-LukeMy Flickr
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So do your rims shine in the sun or are they matt like primer? And it seams to look metallic to me, is that right? Could I get this effect with pinting it?

the colour on the rims is a matt type effect, but it depends on the light angle, in bright sunlight it looks like they have a little glitter in them,
u could achieve a similar effect if u get a mettalic grey paint,


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>First of all, your car looks awesome I now have your picture as my desktop wallpaper

thankyou, i feel honoured, i have some more good shots if you woud like them just ask...lol

This post has been edited by P5ycho: Jan 11, 2007 - 2:22 PM
Mine is metallic.

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