Personally, your car looked much better with the original color of the wheels but that's just me. It's intersting the direction of your wheels is opposite of the CVT's I have. Did you want them that direction, or are they supposed to be like that?
They are supposed to be the way I mounted them. As for the stil color- I hated it, and thought it looked way too boring. Not gonna be plasti dipping anything- all paint!
Plastic dip is far from the same. I'm a painter, so very anti plastic dip haha. Seen way too many horror stories with it, even by "professional" applicators.
As for color matching stuff on my car to the wheels- not a huge fan of that, as its kinda rice. I might do a front emblem after I do my grill mod
Watch your mouth- saying plastic dip is "one in the same" is being dense. Of course it's changing the color, but it's like saying finger painting is as good as fine art.
I'm loving the color on the wheels- def not boring as I've seen most wheels
Also painted all the trim black- the emblem in the rear is being shaved and the front is getting the mesh mod with an emblem in the middle.. Already ordered from China lol.
Wheels look backwards to me. The spoke should lead at the center hub not at the rim. Color needs to have a little more greyish tint to it to work on your grey car. Apply some plastidip taillight tint or something to tone it down?
I tried to ask about the wheel direction too....they are "supposed to be the way I mounted them". The guys that put my wheels on initially did that, and I made them change it. The Vossens boxes specified right vs left. I wouldn't imagine they would make a structural difference with each direction?
Like I said- not worried at all. Anybody who recommends anything plastic dip loses all credibility in my eyes. Next step is bags and true 3 piece wheels.
why? for $70 i completely changed how side profile of my car looks by plastidipping with custom color and clearcoating on top? Only people on this forum and myself know they are PD because of how well they came out. There is nothing rice about them. Be nice, like others are nice about the color of your wheels
I knew they weren't Vossen which is why I asked...different companies could go for different directional look...but then I google imaged the Niche's and saw they ran same direction as the Vossens. At least it's an easy switch!
@cibersay- it's not about being mean- don't get upset lol. And of course your wheels aren't rice- they are stock?! I'm a painter and have seen a ton of horror stories with plastic dip. Yes, your stock wheels are a different color, good for you. I painted my stocks for 35.00 prob and it will last. I'm sorry, i absolutely despise the crap. I can see the texture in your wheels as well, so the smoothness argument is invalid.
Lol alright to each their own mr painter man. I can say the same about people buying knockoff wheels, like TSW or Niche vs real Vossen and Rays ? I'd rather PD mine until the wife lets me buy Rays, than drive on knockoff junk. Bottom line, no need to throw statements like that
You got your butt hurt over me talking about plastic dip- seriously? Why take offense to that? I have my views on the stuff, you are obviously in love with it. Don't let these things get to you so easily.
And yes, to me that car is plain. It's like every other 1st gen at the car meets I go to. I appreciate the build though- and told him so.
P.s. Your wheels are stock, and I don't have to ask my wife permission to buy things?
Since this thread has taken a turn for the worst (aka personal opinion vs personal opinion) I'll leave my thought as this. @Hoyta, your car got 6OTM for a reason and though I can't speak for others, I have a hard time thinking you would have earned that with submissions of your car with current color wheels. It just doesn't seem to flow. And I agree, it's not a matter of Vossen vs Niche. Your wheels looked great for $500 less and I probably would have gone with that too if I had known of them at the time. From a daily driver standpoint I'm sure it has no difference.
@ballsy- I got 4 votes- nobody voted really. 6otm really isn't a big deal when only 4 people vote. As for your opinion on the wheels- I can respect that. I can also say that if you and I were at a car show, mine would win every time vs yours. Yours looks stock almost, very minimal drop and almost stock wheel size. To each their own though. We still need to meet up in Raleigh at some point brotha! As for the vossens- I'm not knocking your wheels- I didn't go with them because they had a forged price tag, but aren't forged. They actually were almost 1k less than vossens. We sell vossens at my job though, so can't knock them too bad
@ballsy- I got 4 votes- nobody voted really. 6otm really isn't a big deal when only 4 people vote. As for your opinion on the wheels- I can respect that. I can also say that if you and I were at a car show, mine would win every time vs yours. Yours looks stock almost, very minimal drop and almost stock wheel size. To each their own though. We still need to meet up in Raleigh at some point brotha! As for the vossens- I'm not knocking your wheels- I didn't go with them because they had a forged price tag, but aren't forged. They actually were almost 1k less than vossens. We sell vossens at my job though, so can't knock them too bad
True on the vote thing....kinda forgot about that. Either way, you deserved that win (imo), no matter how many votes there was total. I haven't had a chance to update pics, I did have it dropped a bit more. It's not anywhere near stock. I need to measure, but by looks it's around 1.5" possibly a little more. Can't go any further due to minimal rub on tight cornering at speeds above 45mph (though its the felt type material in wheel well being rubbed and not the fender I don't think). Not near as low as you or JITB but I'm just not willing to roll fenders, etc....in order to slam it.
Hey hoyta, like the trim, been wanting to do the same. Did you take off the trim to paint or do it on the body? If so how? Also your stock rims did you paint then?
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