Painted my dust shield and wheel caps:



Thanks for the idea on the wheel caps Chris!

 

I know...

I'll take a better one tomorrow. I was kind of in a mad rush when I took this pic. Didn't really notice the shadow till it was too late.

 

Looks sweet!

 

looks dandy. what did you use for the logos? tremclad, touch up paint?
did you remove the logo first, if so how, and finally did you consider spraying them with a krylon clearcoat for longer life and less touch ups?

I had considered doing the same thing but i couldn't figure out how to get the cap off and didn't feel like scuffing the rims prying away with a screwdriver at 3 am.

 

Thanks guys!!

Yeah - i just used good ol tremclad rust paint.. I'm a little worried though cuz i'm not entirely sure that the paint has a good hold on the plastic (seeing as it's for metal), so if it peels off next time i take the high pressure wash to it, i'll get some proper plastic paint and re-do them.

Didn't think about spraying clearcoat on but thats a groovy idea.

To take the caps off - take off your wheel, and push it out from behind. Just pops out - no sweat. I just tapped it out with my tire iron.

The real pain in the *** was masking off the logos to keep paint from getting on them. That was a one night project right there.

 

The center caps remove very easily. You remove the rims from the car, and push them out from the inside. If you try to pry them you'll scratch them. They just pop right out if you push them from the backside.

 

beauty, i'm a do that ish this weekend, aight bla....

 

ENGLISH!!!

 

sorry, i got a little over excited. i will take into consideration what i have learned from this topic and undergo this project at later date.

 

Thats better! lol

ok.. i'm not 'hip' to this new lingo.. what the hell does aight bla mean??

I know aight is alright...

 

ever seen greg the bunny? fox tv show with puppets, eugene levy,seth green and more...?

 

umm.. no..

 

then the aight bla is not likley something that will make much sense to you. sorry

p.s if you get a chance you should watch it it's pretty damn funny

 

If i ever get cable, i'll check it out. For the time being we have peasant-vision and I'll tell ya - i'm not really missing it...

 

No Problem Jason. Gee, now I can't say I'm the only one. Oh well, I'll just have to find something else to do, yeah, like that's going to be hard .

Anyway, here is the link to the tread where I posted how I did my centers.

Painting wheel hubs