After getting in a minor accident coming off a wet interstate exit and ****ing my car front end up i ended up having to replace the headlights and corner lenses because they were all smashed up. my 15" afterarket akuza rims also got messed up.....BUT i didnt stop there. 1 week later i upgraded to 17" wheels

I bought 4 used wheels ($150 for all) off craigs list, which had very very bad curb rash, bought duplicolor wheel paint and sanded the chrome lips down on all 4, took a file to (2) of the wheels (more sanding) and began painting. I think they turned out great and you can barely tell i was in an accident either

srry for camera phone pics-----


here they are after i painted the lips:






and on the car:




more bondo and some paint:

 

what size tires are those? they look a tad bit small... compared to my car w/ P225/50R17

actual pic on left, photoshop of dropped-ness on the right

 

225/45R17

 

Did you take the lip into consideration? I think the design of how the rest of the wheel is inset from the lip makes them look smaller.

 

yea those are gonna be about a half inch smaller than stock. almost 1 inch smaller than my tires cuz mine are a 0.4" over stock size.