winter rims/tires... painted

Painted my stock rims graphite and wrapped them with firestone winterforce 265/75/16 tires
(ran out of paint so havent done center caps yet)

No rubbing at all with tires and stock suspension. If Im at the right angle and at full lock I would rub with my 265/70/17. (prob because of rim backspacing? 17s are 2gen sport rims)

 

Nice. I rub on the frame at full lock and turning left. Very minor though.

 

What brand paint and any special preperation, let see pic's when you get the center caps painted and on.

 

Graphite looks great with the green.

Any pics in day light?

 

looks good

 

If it stops raining here I'll be able to get center caps done and pics outside... Hoping for tomorrow!


For prep I used Aircraft remover to get rid of clear coat still on and clean it up a little. Then I sanded it down and cleaned it up with acetone (which I tried on my fender flares and it blackened them up and havent faded yet after 2 months). Sprayed a couple coats on each wheel and all done. I still have the can so I'll look to see what brand/color code I used.

 

Hope they hold up well UpState NY should be a good test, I need to turn the white letters before I paint my wheels, they were that way when I bought the trk.

 

Binghamton area

 

The graphite looks good w/ the green truck.

I have been considering painting my rims a similar color or black for a while now.

 

Black would look beast on your truck IMO

 

thanks for the opinion, your probably right

 

Truck was dirty and cell didnt seem to want to take a decent pic. I'll get it washed and center caps painted this week and put up a couple more




Thought it was kinda cool the way just the tips of the 5 star were lit up


My 3 rides... (well, now its 2, just sold Integra tonight)

 

so I didnt expect it to take THAT long to get centers painted and truck washed, but here it is......

 

How do you like the Firestone Winterforce UV tires? I have them studded in the 245/70R17 size on my gen II. The really like to bite into ice

Howard

 

They are pretty decent. Lost about 2mpg when I put them on but I havent really got to test them out in the snow yet. Not too loud on highway either.

 

What size tires did you take off? could the mpg change relate to change in diameter?

My mpg seems about unchanged, then again, I stuck with the same OD.

Howard

 

I had 265/65/17 that came on newer tacomas and was getting 21 highway, then went to 265/70/17 and dropped to about 19mpg, then put these on and getting around 17mpg highway. Could be the colder weather and gas too tho. Who knows.

BTW... I just saw your from JC, is that Johnson city NY? whats your truck look like???? I've probably seen you around

 

Snow tires on my little 4-banger Ranger dropped the mileage a good 3mpg in the same size as stock. Granted I was getting 26mpg in that thing, only thing I miss about it.

Hey what Paint did you use? I really like that look. Hard to tell from the photos but is there a gloss to it?

 

I used duplicolor graphite #102 i believe from Advanced auto. Not really much of a gloss to it. I didnt clear coat because I was just testing out the color to see how I liked it (was between graphite and black) and am going to get them powdercoated over the summer the same color