Hey all,
This weekend i got sick and tired of looking at my ugly discolored center caps on my stock 5 spoke se wheels, so i made a trip to the auto parts store and picked up some Dupli-Color High Performance Wheel Coating. In total i spent no more than $10 for the two cans of paint, i had to buy both the colored paint and the clear coat. After putting 3 coats of the paint and 2 coats of clear coat the caps are now finished and i am very pleased. The color does not match exactly but it is very close. So for all you .orgers that have this problem i highly recomend doing this very cheap and quick project.

Here are some pictures i got.
BEFORE:



AFTER:


-Tom

 

Looks good

Could I do this for my front emblem also?

 

Looks much better dude...little things make a difference

 

i wanna get mine chromed to match my wheels, they are the same color as urs right now

 

Looking at that stuff in the store it didn't look like a close enough match but it looks good in the pics. I'll pick some up soon.

 

thanks guys for the feedback. i think the wheels look 100x's better now, those caps were lookin nasty before i painted them... lol

 

I did the same thing with the same paint, minus the clear coat.



not the best pix but as you can see it matches quite well.

 

Mine are also faded as hell . .. you could also buy for $10 - $15 on ebay the 2002+ centercaps with the chrome nissan emblem.

 

Mine were fadded too. I used some generic silver paint that my dad had laying around. It matched perfectly with my wheels.

 

Looks great! I have the paint..just need to find the time to do it.

MM

 

Looks great. Good move there.

 

Have you tried to fit them on the 97-99 SE wheels? Just curious because I do like those but I don't want them not to fit.

 

They fit with no prob...

 

Ha. Must be something about 97 wheels.

I was going to look into getting some new or different centercaps at some point in time. It's way down on my to-do list but does make the car look like crap when it could be fixed so easily.

I'll prob just paint mine too, but does anyone have a pic of different center caps that will fit 97-99 SE rims?

Looks good.

 

gto, it looks like you have the SE-L wheels on your 97 from the pics. Do you?

 

The ones from the 97-99 fit on my 2002 wheels, so im assuming the 2002 centercaps fit the 97-99.

 

nah they are just the standard se wheels, i didnt know there was a difference, wut is the difference?

 

i wanna paint mine gunmetal