Painting stock se wheel center caps
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Painting stock se wheel center caps
i like many owners of the stock 5 spoke se wheels have discolored center caps. i would like to paint them but i dont know what kind of paint i should use on them. if anyone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated, i hope to paint them this week because they are just getting really bad looking at this point. thanks in advanced!
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I also have been contemplating painting the center caps because I hve the same problem. I am afraid that if I paint them I will have to end up painting the whole rim. Do the plastic center caps come off easily and do they go back on easily? Would be nice if I could just paint those apart from the rim.
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they do come off... how? i don't know, but i have seen people with painted rims and no center caps... on some aftermarket wheels there is a ring on the backside of them. so i would say take your wheel off and look on the back of it. It should be self explanitory...
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well before anyone replyed to my thread here, i decided to make a trip to advanced auto parts, i bought the duplicolor wheel coating, the one that i got matches the stock color almost perfectly. I painted them last night, now i just got to decide on if i want to get clear coat to put on them to protect them. And as far as the center caps coming off, u dont even need to take the wheel off. i simply used two of those really small flat head screw drivers and slowly and carefully pryed the caps out. i did that and had no problem at all.
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Originally Posted by NissanSE98
just dont get that armor-all (i dont remember how to spell it) rim/wheel cleaner. It is supposed to get brake dust off...it does a good job, but took my center cap paint clean off!!!
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