To Nightshade or Not to Nightshade!

I think they'll look 100x better when painted black. It's cheap, fun, and easy to do

 

and i just use normal spray paint?

 

There is an excellent write-up on here somewhere. I'll try and dig it up.

 

I used Tremclad rust spray paint on my brothers stock Rav4 rims but other people use a varity of different paints. (rustoleum black wheel paint, dupli-color, bbq paint, etc)


Here is a very great write-up with pics (Thank you skistoy)
http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/wheels-tires/51358-painting-stock-rims-easy.html

 

Rustoleum hammer finish looks good!

 

awesome...thanks for sharing the write up....

 

anytime

 

do itt!
i have the same color 4 cyl and i will be doing it soon hopefully. be cool to see how it is lightly smoked before i do it

and i also wanted to paint the stock wheels as well but we will see

 

haha, yea...there is so many things i'd love to do to my taco at this point, i just dont have time to do every single thing i want....but i think im guna do the nightshades lightly and paint the rims black....and i will have a new tonneau comin' in soon.......

are you guna do the black headlight mod?? and black out or debadge your emblems?

 

done and debadged

i also wanna do blue guages with red needles and i got an idea in mind for a grille wit some 500FF's converted to 55W 6K HID's behind it. thats all down the road tho.

 

That sounds pretty cool... Do u have stock size tires on your taco?? They look a little bigger then stock... Maybe it's just the mud/dirt...

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/wh...ly-need-help-2wd-5-lug-2006-tires-please.html

there 225/75/15 winter tires but im looking at 235/75 15 toyo open country a/t's

 

these are my tail lights...finally got around to actually lightly smoking them....
how do they look?







oh, and i finally got my eyelids and ddm tuning hid's....5000k 35W

 

Love it! Great job man

 

should i go a little darker or keep it this way?

 

I think it looks great that way. But if your not happy with it, go for if man

 

hey guys decided to keep them the way they are, but was wondering if it is ok to use rubbing/polishing compound on these to take out all the imperfections...

 

i dont see why not. in the how to someone made they used rubbing compound so id say ya.

also looks great thats what im going for too. plus i see you did the BHLM as well. looks really good!

 

Rubbing compound and/or polish will only remove small scratches. If you are looking to remove the "orange peel" look, you will have to wet sand, then move on to the compouind and polish.