After looking at many pictures, I am trying to decide on how to paint my wheels. I have narrowed my colors down to Guards Red or Grauschwarz grey. Do you guys think painting the whole rim would look good? The rivets are just plastic fake, and I am considering just painting the whole rim one color.

One side of my says this will flow better, but another says it will look cheesy. What do you think? Here are some options I have posted below, with all painted, only ceters painted, and lip and rivets left unpainted.

Let me know what you guys think and your opinions on color options as well, I am leaning more towards the grey color now.

 

I would say gray indeed. Looks good on this red car (another rennlister):

 

black center with red lips

 

If it were mine I would go with the gray, just like the picture above...sweet lookin'...good luck with it

 

I kinda like the yellow, but the grey would be my vote. I wouldn't paint the lip either, make them look plastic in my eyes. You could do grey and use a little red to color match your car as an accent, like with the rivets or center cap.

 

Thanks for the input... Another thought occured to me when looking at this. I really hate the size of the plastic rivet head and you know... the fact that it's plastic bugs me. I got to thinking of replacing them with something smaller then I found this thread...

Scroll all the way to the bottom
http://forums.fourtitude.com/showthr...kin-KT1-thread.

Now I wouldn't use SS because of the weight, but then a lightbulb went off, what about anodized aluminum??? Then I found this
http://forums.fourtitude.com/showthr...thread./page2&

I just wish I knew what diameter the rivet hole was without pulling one out? If it's a 1/4-20 or D6 size, I'm Golden. I guess I will have to pull one to find out.

Anodized red would look good with an all grey wheel, I think that would look killer if I could pull it off

Here is an example on a different wheel, but you get the idea.

 

Damn, that's cool! I had no idea you could do that. Now I want to find me a set.

 

I like the gray. Red wheels on a red car does not have enough contrast in my opinion.

 

I think there's lots of good choices out there, but i think red would look bad on a red car.

 

gunmetal/light grey, gunmetal on black, black on gunmetal, black on grey, silver on gunmetal, etc....

all good in spades.....

968 Clubsport rims and other gaudy painted rubbish are the most horrid idea since the announcement of New Coke.

just my opinion.

 

All good points guys, thanks. Haven't been out to the garage yet, but on the warm day with a heat gun, I will pull a rivet and test a 1/4-20 screw in it. If it's loose, there is always JB-weld. Did I mention how much I hate plastic rivets with a huge head?

I have contacted RH, but did not get a reply, although I found a couple pictures of a 1-piece RH Mercedes wheel with the same plastic rivets that had just come from powder coating and melted them completely.

It appears the holes are much smaller than the opening, not sure if 1/4" but close.

Decided on the Grauschwarz for the whole wheel with some plain aluminum cap screws that I will paint Guards Red. Such a good contrast on the 2010 GT3 thought it would look good with the rims. I have attached a picture of this grey on a BBS wheel as seen at SEMA 2012. I think the solid dark grey is better than the heavy metallic on wheels IMO.

 

Update... got the wheels back from powder coat today. Had them repaired as well. Went with a Stahlgrau then backed out some of the blue and the black met to make it a little lighter. You can still see the blue hue in it from the side shot well. Also replaced those huge ugly rivets tonight with some 12-point hex head style. Much improved.

Pictures aren't the greatest as they were cell phone. I will take some more under natural light with a better camera tomorrow to see if they look any different.

 

In natural light.

 

Now that looks great. Good choice!

 

Thanks, here's a few more shots on the car. I just installed a Bilstein cup suspension and weltmeister sways all at the same time... now time for a good alignment. I will say the car is phenomenal now. FLAT cornerning and a better steering feel all around. No more dancing around in the rear. Doesn't ride any more harsh then the stock koni's, and I have 392# springs! Still shredding my tire, but I have to see after the alignment where it's at before any fender mods.