SlvrC230SS

I woke up this morning and decided to refinish my wheels since the clear coat is peeling off. I got the paint stripper and did the polishing. It's in original color now, diamond cut and polish lip. I'm thinking to paint the center either back to black, gunmetal, or charcoal.
What you guys think?

After one layer of mothers polish

advans

hmm i was wondering, how did u paint ur wheels black? did you just use heat paint? or whats the deal. I would like to paint my wheels black!

SlvrC230SS

well, i bought the wheels from a fellow member, it came black already.
However, I painted wheels for my other car before. I just bought those wheel spray paint can at pepboys or autozone.

advans

and they actually come out nice!? no chips!?

SlvrC230SS

Yes, no problem, as with painting, you need the patience. Lots of preparation to get the great result.
I actually sold those rims that I painted and the buyer couldn't even tell that it was painted when I told him.

ICEMAN™

I think you should go with gunmetal, gunmetal always looks great on silver cars. I think it actually looks great with out any paint to

kcheng86

Which brand did you get? any good brands you know?

TruTaing

What kinda wheels are those? I liked em black :x

B189s

Gunmetal. It's a perfect match ,silver car and gunmetal finish wheels.

j_belll

yea i agree with most here, gunmetal!

advans

yeap. gunmetal or diamond black!

anyways might be a little off topic...but...

THE CL-AMG wheels, the 2 piece wheels, I swear theres 2 different gunmetal ish colors, any clue!?

dac086

were your wheels black originally? I was thinking about taking the paint off my wheels. I am not sure what the easiest way would be. I dont know if it takes a lot of time and also if it as easy as it looks? how much time did you put into taking paint off wheels and polishing.

SlvrC230SS

I believe the brand Dupli-Color will work just fine.

SlvrC230SS

I did only two wheels, spent about a whole day. The rims' original color is diamond cut. The paint stripper pretty much does the hard part, the paint will buble up and after 30 min, you can use the scrapper to loose all the paint.

SlvrC230SS

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Ryanr317

I say go for gunmetal or charcoal.

dac086

What brand of stripper did you use? Did you have to apply more than one coat?

SlvrC230SS

hmm, i believe it was duplicolor bought it at pepboys. and Yes, I had to apply more one coat to clean up the little paint left.
i took pics of the process from after I put the paint stripper on the wheel to the completion.
Let me find it and post it tonight.

rlee02135

take some daytime pics...i think diamond cut looks good on silver

powa

+1 on gun metal!

Shake

It looks pretty good as is in the night picture, but i dont know, a day picture would be helpful.

drexappeal

Diamond (BBS name) or Burning (Work name) black (it's in between gunmetal and black).

SlvrC230SS

Here is the picture on the day time

hawaiian

Honestly, the original color looks perfect w/ your car color. Your question though was in between gunmetal and black, so I'm gonna say gunmetal for sure.

Shake

gunmetal would look good