Painting Stock Wheels

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CMK4425

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Location

Baton Rouge, LA

• Jun 10, 2008

• #1

I have a 2001 with the cheap looking factory 5 star steel wheels. I was wondering if I painted them black if it would look better or worse in your opinion. I am going to change them out when money allows but I am all about cheap mods.:dunno:

 

PacificEd

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NAXJA Member

Location

Middle Tennessee

• Jun 10, 2008

• #2

I would leave them the argent silver color. I don't really like the looks of the 5 stars in black.

 

Mudderoy

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Location

Katy, Texas

• Jun 10, 2008

• #3

CMK4425 said:

I have a 2001 with the cheap looking factory 5 star steel wheels. I was wondering if I painted them black if it would look better or worse in your opinion. I am going to change them out when money allows but I am all about cheap mods.:dunno:

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"Son you can put lipstick on a pig, but she'll still expect you to buy her jewelry afterwards." :wow:

Get your handy digital camera out, take a picture of the wheel. Paint it black on the computer.

Thinking ahead you could just take a picture of the whole Jeep and digitally paint the wheels black.

Try before you buy...

 

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dneitzling

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Location

Montana

• Aug 10, 2008

• #4

I also have the stock 5 star wheels. On saturday i took them off, put a couple coats of paint stripper on them and took a wire wheel on an angle grinder to get all the paint off. So I was down to bare metal, I put two coats of primer, two coats of black, and two coats of clear on them...and I gotta say, they look pretty badass. Everyone says, "Wow, are those new? How much did they cost?" Or they ask me to do that to their wheels. So, go for it IMO.

 

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Blaine B.

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Location

Northwest Indiana

• Aug 10, 2008

• #5

x2 on the above post, best way to do it! I was going to paint my wheels but just bought some Soft 8's for about $35 each since I got them in a wider size.

 

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WB9YZU

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Location

Madison, WI

• Aug 10, 2008

• #6

This has got to be the dumbest thread ever in Modified Tech.

Next thing he's going to ask for is pictures of peoples rigs so he can pick a color. :gee:

 

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iBarsky

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Location

TAG

• Aug 10, 2008

• #7

PM MelkorsXJ for some pics of his. He's got the stockies painted black and I know he's got pics.

 

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Pharaoh XJ

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Location

Cairo, EGYPT

• Aug 11, 2008

• #8

Here is some photoshop of what I have in mind