[La_FJ]

I decided to paint my spare wheel black today just to see how it looks. I'm not sure when I can get some time to paint the rest but I wanted to get some practice with the spray paint and design so here it is!

before:

After Primer:

After Paint:

End Product:

thinking about painting the lugs blue maybe? if i can find a paint that match

 

[La_FJ]

idk if yall can see the pics under the caption it was my first time, they are in order in the thumbnails

 

[isomswim]

looks good. TRD wheels without paying for them. lol
Im thinking about doing this to my 16's:rocker:

 

[snafu58]

Pretty nice. What prep and paint did you use?

 

[La_FJ]

Pretty nice. What prep and paint did you use?

a sanded the clear coat with 220 grit sandpaper, just enough to get the shine off then went to autozone and bought dulpicolor black sandable primer (2 coats)
and satin black wheel paint (3 coats) and for the silver dots i just used pricing dots from the dollar store

here is the thread i used for instruction http://www.fjcruiserforums.com/foru...2894-painting-your-fj-wheels-inst-w-pics.html

 

[La_FJ]

looks good. TRD wheels without paying for them. lol
Im thinking about doing this to my 16's:rocker:

lol thanks it cost me $47 to get all the paint (i went ahead and got enough for 5 wheels) so it saved me a few bucks :bigthumb:

 

[Village40]

I'm so tempted to do this...

 

[La_FJ]

i would recommend it over powder coating if that is another options because if you scratch them wheeling it is easy to fix because its just paint

 

[OK_FJ]

Looks good. Personally, I would do the centercaps too, or maybe just the Toyota logo (it pops off real easily). It looks kinda unfinished IMO, but if that's the way you like it, more power to ya.:bigthumb:

One other thing, don't paint the lugs. It will just chip off when from the socket you put the wheels back on. Chrome chips and peels bad enough, I imagine paint would not hold up.

 

[La_FJ]

yea im thinking about the caps i just didnt want to do them and think it was to much black. you can always add paint

 

[jeffhimself]

Looks real good man!! I have been debating on doing this to mine as well. Although I was thinking of leaving the outer rim silver and painting the rest black. I've been wanting to photoshop that for a while to see what it would look like.

 

[La_FJ]

i think on the how to paint your wheels thread there is a guy who did that

 

[Joeisip811]

yea im thinking about the caps i just didnt want to do them and think it was to much black. you can always add paint

this might change your mind :bigthumb:

:cheers:

 

[La_FJ]

this might change your mind :bigthumb:

:cheers:

i like this a lot!! :clap:

 

[NestahEdition]

Or this in powder coated "Satin" low-sheen black and painted red Toyota emblem.

 

[d.blick]

Isnt funny how we all powder coat or paint these stock 17's. Which I assume is only fill the void that we seek 17 inch TRD's that do not exist. At least that was my mindset after I searched for 17's TRD black.

Thank god for a sexy stock rim. Only similar looking rim is the KMC Rockstars and well, I live in the land of lifted trucks, metal Mulisha and tattoo's, those rims are played out. No joke I see 1 set every single day I leave the house.

 

[Capt Sensible]

^^^haha, same here.

 

[Village40]

this might change your mind :bigthumb:

:cheers:

What kind of watch is that (in the pic)?

 

[Jayhawk Engineer]

Joe...

Absolutely crazy. I have been debating on wheels forever. This looks amazing and it is something that you can step back and say "I did this." Great job.

 

[gericurl]

I did mine graphite last year:

Sorry this one has a little rock rash but you get the idea on the color

I just re-painted them bronze

I was about 50/50 on the bronze color at first but I'm liking it more each day.