Jklaz

Alright heres the problem. I'm a low budget guy. My thread is in my signature for more info on my TL. I'm going for a pretty blacked out look, as I've tinted and am ordering gloss black vinyl for the front grill pieces and the back silver piece over the license plate. Once I do the vinyl, the only shiny-ish parts on the car I plan on having are the front and rear Acura logos. My original plan was to paint the rims gloss black. I know this is against many people's opinions as it could potentially look tacky, but my curbrash looks tacky enough. I was going to use metal filler to fix the curb and then sand the rims down, primer, paint, clear. One snag I just hit is that the lugs will still be that chrome silver.. and if you paint them its difficult and it could just get chipped putting the rims back on. So one solution is new lugs. But I can't find cheap ball seat lug nuts in black..

Therefore my question is: With a black theme of a black car, darkish tint, black grill, and red brake calipers... are there any rim colors that would look appropriate with the stock chrome lug nuts?

Heres a picture for reference(tint is 35% ) :








so whats your opinion.. here's my options:

1. Leave them stock
2. Fix the curb, paint them a stock looking color
3. Fix the curb, paint them a different color that would look good with the stock lugs

Italiano

Glossy Gunmetal would look good...A lot of us painted our stock wheels before we got new wheels.

Jklaz

The Type S rims are gunmetalish right? I'm trying to imagine the colors going together

Italiano

Yes...Would give it some contrast

Jklaz

True. All black is a little bit played out too. Would you choose gunmetal over a bronze or gold?

Italiano

Yes

Jklaz

thanks for the post man! I'm super skeptical about the black and don't want to keep it stock so Gunmetal is looking like a good option

rossv1

Go with gunmetal. This is Pacura2006's TL with gunmetal stockies:

dynodonkey

i may be in the minority, but i say go with gloss black. i painted my stocks gloss black and left the lugs silver and loved how they look. gun metal is too grey imho. that being said, painting your wheels is kind of a PITA. very cheap, but very time consuming. idk if i would do it again. but if you do it, GLOSS BLACK!!!

THEReeM718

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Dupli-color graphite paint FTW.


http://www.duplicolor.com/products/wheelCoating/

SharksBreath

iTrader: (33)

for the love of all things holy, please do not paint your wheels black.

EATSLEEPRACE

iTrader: (1)

Gun metal looks real good IMO

Jklaz

That looks so good

Do you have any pics?? And by the way since you said it's a pain to do (which judging by tutorials I'm not looking forward to all the work) would you keep them stock w/curbrash ?

Thanks I'll look at their paint!

Just wondering why. Do you think it's overwhelming for everything to black or just flat out don't think it looks good

That picture above is really nice I'm leaning towards it now

aaugust2

The rims look amazing.

What was your process?

JoshD_99EM1

Let me know when you're gonna do yours, Ill meet you somewhere and do mine on the same day. Split the cost of paint, which I get discounted anyway thru my job. After seeing that pic, I have to do it until I can afford the wheels I want.

pbmike101

polish them!! anything but black on black its so over played and just dosnt really work with the tls that much, if you want a dark color deffently do the gun metal, or go with white always looks good on a full black car, but your car you choice man

Italiano

....Too Gray?

Turbocoop

iTrader: (3)

I did my stock Aspecs in duplicolor gunmetal wheel paint because they were all curbed to hell. Theres pics on this site somewhere... I also painted the lug nuts and "A" on the center cap black with black epoxy paint, I love how it came out. I wrote up a DIY thread, try to search for it if you want

zachlone

go gunmetal! black on black everyone does that. Black on black with a bold color accent looks good.

SharksBreath

iTrader: (33)

don't do black because then everything will blend in together and it'll look like you're riding on donuts.

car needs some contrast to look good IMO.

EvilVirus

iTrader: (8)

^agree

I see way too many black cars with all black wheels, but my favorite ones are the black cars, black wheels, blackout headlights and tail lights. The sad part of it.............it was a 3G TL one my way to work today.

TWiSDiT

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The only way to pull off murdered out look is with glossy thinner spoke wheels and a BBK imo. Like aaron said.. your car is gonna look like a piece of block riding on steelies.. contrast ftw

KJ TL-S

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After the pic of Pacuras car was posted, I figured it was /thread,

jota809

go with gunmetal i always thought that painting the stock wheels wasnt a good idea till i saw pacura's picture

dynodonkey

actually they are both right! but yes too gray imho.

and i just spent a half hour trying to resize my pics and i FAILED miserably. pm me your email and ill send you some pics. i think it looks GREAT!

geekybiker

I did mine in the duplicolor graphite on NBP like yours. It looks really good. Just be sure to paint the center caps and detail the logos with a contrasting color of paint like above, or my car. It really makes the look.

TLlove07

Graphite is awesome.

John C.

Damn the gunmetal looks great on the stockies!!!! how do yall think they would look on abyss blue pearl TL?

rossv1

There was someone that had ABP with gunmetal stockies but I don't remember his name. It looked sick though.

John C.

that is def. something I will look into doing in the near future.....

350

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If you want to do it black, do it black. My wheels, center caps and lugs are all black. My car is white so it pops more than it would on a black car. Plastidip them black first, you can always peel it off. or paint over the dip and peel off the paint you choose if you don't like it.

THEReeM718

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Fix that rear quarter panel tint.

TL Seth

Flat black...glossy wont look good unless you have clean low pros