Hey everyone, I've got the metallic slate color for my car. Thinking about upgrading from the stock 18's to either some aftermarket 19's, or possibly just powdercoating the 18's.

Just looking for opinions about what color you think would work best!

Black? Chrome? The stock color? Gray (darker/lighter than the slate)? Tell me what you'd do!

 

go black or gunmetal

 

gunmetal

 

I'm leaning towards powdercoating the stock 18's black. I think it'll look nice blending in with the black tire and make me feel alright about about having the smaller size 18's. Plus I've got a fairly dark tint going on.

I worry that gunmetal would be a different shade than the slate color, and then there's black windows/roof spoiler, and chrome trims/handles. Too much? Black would keep it simpler...

 

Probably gonna paint my calipers a gray/silver color too. Something a lil shiny and glossy instead of the ugly bare looking stock metal. I think that'd pop with black wheels.

 

you could always plasti-dip (lot cheaper, and not permanent)...I will post up pics of mine later 2nite

 

Nice. Is yours slate with stock 18's plasti-dipped? Looking forward to pics bro.

 

i have the gunmetal limited 2012 with matching color rims and with a 15% tint all the way around and man its hot looking...the next move it the red calibers and i want to put the 4 piece lite in the extra fog lamp area on the front bumper....the car is so pretty that simple mods are all that is needed....i would love to get one of those transformer emblems for the grill that would be nice touch....and since i write resumes i thought about doing a resume of pimping as a sticker on the back window....what do people think about that?

 

That's another idea, making my wheel color match the slate color on the body exactly. I dunno, I think the black would be better though.

 

to give you an idea...

 

thats gunmetal

 

one day late but here it is... stock 18"s plasti-dipped

I included 1 or 2 pics of the plasti-dip coming off b/c of nissan(lucky it was on only one wheel...forgot to tell them not to clean the wheels while it was in for warranty work for head gasket problems)

 

that actually looks pretty decent...

 

That looks sick! I like the dark wheels, I think I'm gonna have to do it. I'd plasti-dip, but since you've already shown me what it looks like I think I'll jump straight to powdercoating them a gloss black.

Hopefully I can get this on the schedule soon, I'll post the pics once its done!

Thanks bro for posting those pics. Exactly what I wanted to see. Your car looks good!

 

Personally, I think Life's wheels are too matte with the Plastdip, but that's just my opinion of course. Plastdip does offer a gloss spray option that you put on after using the matte black. So an extra 20-40 (or however many spray cans you need) bucks and you get the powdercoat shiny look.

 

thanks!...hope the wheels turnout the way u like!



For some reason, the matte goes pretty good with my tail lights since i sprayed them (they look matte). too much chrome around the windows though. I don't plan on doing the gloss spray...going to rip off the black plasti-dip and go for blue or green plasti-dipped wheels next time

 

nice! everyone is going matte black matte gray crazy!

 

I think I'd go glossy...

 

I think I'd go glossy too. Easier to keep clean?

 

I just think it'd look more sharp. On those days where you really clean you car up, wax it down, shine the tires, matte would kinda bring that down. Just my opinion about how it'd look for my own car.