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Topic #5686 11 posts Started by Celica94GT
im gettin ready to have my stock 15" wheels painted for winter. i can get any color, all i have to do if find the color i want off of a car and get the color code. im thinkin gettin a silver, i want a readdy flashy, bright silver, or maybe gunmetal, any suggestions.

ps i posted this over at celica.net too so if u already saw it then im sorry.
Are these your only pair of rims? I am asking because why do it right before winter. Winter is bad, enemy, evil to cars. Salt and shizit its going to crap on ur new paint job.

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no, look in my sig dude, im only gonna use them for winter, i have 17's on now.
-Celica94GT+Aug 28, 2003 - 10:15 PM

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-Supersprynt+Aug 28, 2003 - 7:46 PM
have them powdercoated

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have them powdercoated

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don't waste the money on powder-coating if they are your winter/back-up wheels. just go to autozone or somethin like that, and get the Dupli-color wheel paint. >smile.gif>. they have silver, white, black, gun metal, etc...it's like 5 bucks a can, and you can just spray them yourself and save a couple hundred bucks. >wink.gif>.

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I'd advise to paint it yourself also, I think there's a How-To on it on the site. I've checked out powdercoating & its a really expensive proposition, I mean big bucks. Even finding someone here to do such a small job was a pain.
well if u want like flashy silver, go with chrome. i dunno if u can have stuff painted chrome tho. but i do know that there is chrome spray paint. i dont know what color Lopez Metallic is, but since that is your car color, it would look cool to have your rims be the same color. or black/gunmetal usually looks good too.
Paint them the same color as your car... and if your just doing this for fun do it yellow and orange.

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