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  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 05:03 pm
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so i'm think of painting my stock svt wheels black. i have three ideas; all black, leaving the outside lip edge silver and painting the rest black or making a template that goes around the base of the spokes and just painting the centers black. my car is black so i think black will look real good and make the car kinda mean looking.:cool: what do you all think?
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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 05:27 pm
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Black wheels with silver lips are very nice.
That gets my vote.



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  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 05:36 pm
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i dont have an SVT but I did mine...the pic is on the intraweb somewhere

Attachment: rac.bmp (Downloaded 47 times)

Last edited on Wed May 25th, 2005 12:45 am by audiojunkie



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 08:13 pm
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I say paint them black with the lip masked off so it stays silver... that's an awesome look on wheels, methinks. And then against the car the lip would just have a little "pop" against the black-out theme.



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 09:08 pm
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Gloss black with a silver lip would look great.
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  Posted: Mon Feb 14th, 2005 11:00 pm
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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Feb 15th, 2005 01:19 am
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Dark wheels just don't do it for me. IMO, it just makes your expensive wheels disappear. I don't like chrome either. Just silver, or polished silver.



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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Feb 15th, 2005 04:22 pm
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audiojunkie, your wheels look great! did you polish the lip of your wheel or are they like that from the factory? i'm worried that my svt wheels wouldn't look as good cause the lip would be silver instead of polished...:?
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  Posted: Tue Feb 15th, 2005 05:51 pm
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Its still painted silver i suppose the light made it look better i guess...  all I did was scrape the wheel with a brillo pad to rough up the paint then i just sprayed them with krylon bbq grill paint.  hi temp low gloss easy up keep LOL ...



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Mana: 
  Posted: Tue Feb 15th, 2005 06:48 pm
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ok i think i'm gonna try it then, i'll try and post pics of before and after
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  Posted: Sun Feb 20th, 2005 03:53 pm
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i went ahead and painted the wheels, i used duplicolor gloss black with the clear duplicolor high performance wheel coating. i washed them, masked off the outer lip and sanded them with 400 grit. i did alot of thin coats of black and then a few coats of clear. they look amazing, it changes the whole look of the car, i love it. i'll post some pictures soon. :cool:
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Mana: 
  Posted: Sun Feb 20th, 2005 06:30 pm
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i think it would look pretty damn good.let me know, im thinking of doing this myself

to my 01 ZTS i have the factory 6 spoke.;up
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Mana: 
  Posted: Sun Feb 20th, 2005 10:42 pm
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audio, those wheels look awesome in black. Hey, does anyone have the 03 16inch rims painted black? I was thinking of doing this to my rims to match the Pitchblack color. Thanks in Advance.



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Mana: 
  Posted: Mon Feb 21st, 2005 02:02 pm
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I feel like I've seen that before, but I'm not sure where... it looked really good though. I *think* this car was silver and left the chrome cap unpainted, it was a nice look.



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Mana: 
  Posted: Thu Feb 24th, 2005 05:37 pm
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I used the Duplicolor Graphite wheel paint to do my SVT wheels. I also have a black focus and I really like the way they look together. I also sprayed my calipers gloss black at the same time to make them a little more presentable..

 

 

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Mana: 
  Posted: Thu Feb 24th, 2005 05:42 pm
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I love the look of gunmetal or even a graphite...especially with the clean aluminum trim.

nice :o)



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Mana: 
  Posted: Thu Feb 24th, 2005 08:59 pm
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Which SVT wheels, the original ones? Sounds nice, I agree the dark wheels with polished lip look REALLY good on most Foci.



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