what colour to paint my mims?

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toecutter666
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:22 pm

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Still working on my turd, thinking of refurbing my wheels as paint is peeling, don't really want to get the dish polished.

Any ideas?
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:07 pm

how about colour coding them to the car ?
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:53 am

Didn't know if that was too much blue, got blue top and blue interior. What about white?
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:55 am

Black centres?
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:58 am

Does that mean polishing the rims, would it look kak with painted rims?
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:15 am

I have never seen them with painted rims as these wheels are quite rare,if you have the rims polished you have to keep polishing them or have them lacquered.keep it plain and simple road salt kills polished liped rims,
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Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:29 am

Polished lip and blue centres :?:
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Sat Apr 25, 2009 8:41 am

Has anyone got any pictures of different looks on their cars, still can't make up my mind which way to go :(
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Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:11 pm

I had some black ones with polished lip fitted to my dolphin grey coupe and (in my opinion) they looked pretty good. Will try and find some pics as dont have the car anymore :cry:
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:41 pm

Cheers simon, be good to see some examples
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Fri May 15, 2009 4:51 pm

Here's a pic of some painted rims:

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These aren't mine, my mims are the same as yours.
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Sat May 16, 2009 11:28 am

They look sweet clarko, think i may have found winner, time to get the spray gun out :)
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Sat May 16, 2009 11:56 am

gold centers with polished lip / diamond cut lip?
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Sat May 16, 2009 3:41 pm

Would look nice panesar but couldn't be arsed to look after them, just want something i can chuck a bucket of water over
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