Midnight Racer

below is a pic of my car and the rims I have, I plan on redoing the rims mostly to remove the curb rashes and scratches and I wanted to know if you guys think I should keep them silver or change the colour ( ie white, gunmetal, black, black with a red lip, etc....)

chrome91

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IMO gold or gunmetal. usually gold looks best on a blue Subaru or white Skyline but i think a black 3rd gen would pull off gold pretty well

BenStoked

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I like the silver, looks good with the chrome trim. if you are set on a color change, black with a chrome lip, or gunmetal

Gunther

+1

Cliff Clavin

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with your car color, I would go with bronze or silver. Maybe just a slightly darker shade of silver, like the color of the G35 coupe wheels.



I am going to refinish my 6th gen 17s in gunmetal, but I like that color better with my red car. There is a sticky in the wheels and tires section that has a good how-to. I plan on using that method.

I have the paint and primer, but I need to get some paint stripper to get the clear coat off. My brother-in-law is going to help me bondo the scratches on them and he said if I paint them, he can finish and clear them so they look better. Hopefully, I won't screw it up too bad.

Jeff92se

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LOL Cliffy. I don't think you have to strip the old coating if it's not peeling.

But I agree, a bronze or a gunmetal bronze would look great

James92SE

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I rocked these for a while. Nobody here much liked them but I still maintain they looked pretty good I should have gotten them in 18's

Matt93SE

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James, I liked them. just a bit too JDM for me, but I liked them...

As for the OP... My $0.02 is to buy new wheels. For the cost of paying to have them refinished, you can buy some another set of decent wheels. You can also get something in a bit better offset that fills in the fender wells a bit better.

Decent wheels run as cheap as $125 each in a 17x8 at Discount Tire...

Cliff Clavin

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They have a few small blemishes/peeling and one of the wheels hit a curb. it kind of burned the clear on it. Plus, I was going to bondo the lip some, at least try to get it smoothed out a bit. That is the only wheel with anything bad, though.

Those are the wheels I got for $100 and sold the tires for $230, so I am still ahead quite a bit. Spending an extra $10 for paint stripper can't hurt.

Oh, does anyone have an idea how to get the Nissan emblem off so I can paint the center cap underneath? It looks like they are kind of "riveted" on with plastic or something.

chrome91

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those look sick, look awesome with black

not to get off topic but ive seen some 3rd gens with the centre bar removed from the trunk like yours, do people just paint over it or remove it or what?

James92SE

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Well, I had mine off because I was working on the q45t spoiler at the time. The spoiler wasn't finished in those pics (lot of low spots) so I left the middle reflector off because I didn't want to get filler and crap all over it. But, I also had one that I just painted and have rolled with that for a while at times. Years ago, I had a spare trunk lid that I welded in new metal to truly "fill in" the center piece, but I never quite finished and I can't quite remember what became of it

chrome91

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ahh so you can weld metal over. just wondering, i remember someone painted over their middle piece and someone thought their 3rd gen was a Lancer

Maximan190

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Im planning on popping the nissan logo off my caps and putting them on my SVT caps for the cobra rims i have. I removed one nissan emblem so far, and theres 2 little plastic blisters that i drilled out from the back side (only drilled far enough to get the emblem off of course) It looks like thats what youll have to do, and then re-epoxy the emblem back on and goop up those 2 holes with epoxy - it should give it more bite to affix the emblem back on than just gluing on the surface

Cliff Clavin

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Thanks for the tip. I wanted to keep the emblems chrome and not paint them dark like the wheels.