TRD Bead Locks. Trim or No Trim

I have the bronze wheels with black truck. Should I put the polished trim on or leave it off.

Can't decide what looks better.

 

Please give us pictures of the two choices and make a poll.

Usually, less colors thrown at you is better so if bronze / black on the rims is an option I would take that over bronze / silver on a black truck.

 

+1 for trim.

 

On

 

I left mine on. There are a few people on here that have painted/powder coated the rings black.

 

on.

they do a great job of protecting the wheels, no way i would take them off.

 

Did you decide?

 

Yeah put em on mainly cause someone mentioned about being protection for the wheels.

 

On or off? Thinking about taking then back off lol. Tires protect the wheels plenty.

 

On...I've always found that they look unfinished or that they're missing something without the fauxlocks.

Matt

 

I would plasti dip a ring black to see what it looked like. If it worked for you then you could paint or powdercoat them. In my opinion, it would look good on a black truck.

 

Off! Those things suck to get clean!

 

I have some pretty nasty scratches/gouges on the faux beadlock rings thanks to some idiot tire installers and big rocks.

Also that factory bronze coating chips easy. I went through almost 10 wheels when I bought them trying to find a set that wasn't chipped or cracking just from being shipped with less than adequate packing.

 

Leave them on they look great with the rings. I saw a bunch of guys posted over on the FJ forum about taking them off and all the pictures with rings removed didn't look as good as leaving them on. They seemed to rag on the wheels having fake beadlock rings, but I was thinking "why the fuck did you by them in the first place then?"

Someone on here has to have painted the rings black. I wonder how that would look?

 

On is my vote.

 

+1. If I hated the rings that much I would have just saved $ and bought the level 8 guardians.

 

Trim looks 10x better in my opinion.

 

I'd say leave them on. Here are several examples of mine:

Chrome rings



Black (powdercoat) rings



No rings

 

that blowout looks crazy!