Some updated pics of my TSX.













Some Nights pics

 

I saw these before Where did you get ur OEM rims painted? and how much?

 

yeah you probably saw them on the other site.

Go to Canadian Tire, they have Duplicolor Wheel paint for 8$, i just took time to sand properly. At first the white was too white, but the clearcoat from duplicolor was a bit yellowing, and gave them an offwhitish look which i liked.

To those of you who will flame me for painting my wheels (and i know you will) i will just say, I did these because i think it looks good, i did it my self, and it is only until next summer.

 

Also in the night pics my hids might look blue, and my fogs white. When i indeed have stock HIDs and Nokya Yellow Fogs.

 

nice pic. lovely white color.

 

Love the rims! It looks even better w/o centercaps Which D2S bulb are you using?

 

Looks Good!

 

Never thought i would be saying this, but the white rims looks very nice. Good clean look.

 

Puts on the center caps, please.

Looks great otherwise.

 

Thanks for the replies guys, I have not yet put on the center caps is because i dont know what to do with them.

 

painted wheels look pretty nice reminds me of honda's white typeR rims

 

How well do youneed to sand them? and how long did this whole process take?... Seems like a worthwhile thing as a DIY, i want mine in gunmetal sort-of.. but I can't keep the car out of operation for that long.

 

i think the white wheels look great

 

Yeah, I like the white wheels. Nice DIY

 

very nice... that looks really good... your car is slammed...what suspension are you running? nice job

 

i like the white on white, great job on the diy. the lack of centercaps gives it kind of a race look

 

Did you paint the wheels with the tires off?

 

damn thats pretty sick...i like the wheels alot

 

Nice

 

hmm, very original idea with the rims.

 

looks nice

paint the suckers too and put em on

 

Those are some nice wheels! How much were they and where can I get them?

 

Thanks once again guys.

To answer some questions:

Sanding didnt take that long, around 30 mins or so per wheel but that depends on how anal you are, I did this while my winter tires were still on so i was ok with it.

I did indeed paint them with the tires still on, this obviously required me to mask the tires, what i did was armor all the tire rather than tape it, now this would have been completely affective, had i removed the excess paint right away (not doing it right away allowed the armor all to soak in and the paint to dry), the result is some perma stuck paint (removed most of it by literally sanding the tire) if anyone knows of a better way/chemical to get it all off it would be great.

If you would like to not be without your car for too long, i suggest sanding them the day before while still on, then the next day go through with the painting, it doesnt take long, its quick drying but i let it dry for a good while since i still had steelies. Cleared it afterwards and i was all done.

In regards to the center caps, I did paint them white, but what i actually did was putty it to fill in the A symbol, to make it smooth, but i have not put them on because i was then thinking of getting a red "A" for them.

I am lowered with some nice Tein SS coilovers

Finally, my calipers are painted, but i didnt sand my caliper last year before i painted them so they are pretty much back to stock color. I will be re-painting them red again, also putting my ACURA decals on them again.

Sorry long reply, lol.

 

These?! why these are the new Enkei's made just for PWP TSX's about 500$ a wheel, well worth the money!

 

Speaking of which, my original idea was to paint them GunMetal, so what did i do? I painted on wheel Gunmetal and the other White. The gunmetal looked really good sitting on the floor, and would have looked nice on the car, but i found gave an impression that they were smaller in diameter. I have always wanted White on white through the comments of some friends, i settled on white and couldnt be happier.

The Duplicolor Color name was "High performance White" and for the "gunmetal" one it was "Graphite"

 

looks good. i did the same thing to my white integra.