Spidertrax spacers / painted stock wheels
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Looks great, curious as to how many spray cans you went through? This has been on my short list for the winter stock steels and exhaust.
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Thanks guys! I used about 3 1/2 cans give or take. Just figure a can per wheel to be safe, but you'll probably only use about 3/4 of it. Depends on how many coats. The nice thing about painting wheels like this is if the paint chips or otherwise starts to come off (because you missed a spot when prepping or something), all you have to do is tape it off, sand the offending area a bit, clean it up and just re-spray it.
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Cool, post up some pics of that powder coat job when its finished! I considered going that route, but delivering the wheels to the painter without mounted tires for a period of days just was not feasible.
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Center Caps
I have to say, yours are one of the best looking paint jobs I have seen yet.
Have you thought about painting the center caps yellow. They would look a lot like the AEV wheels then. I have been considering just doing the center caps on mine, or maybe making some new ones.
I would really like to either have my wheel re-anodized a darker gray (i.e. titanium or argent) or get some of the argent wheels from the mountain edition.
Anyone get them re-anodized a different color?
Have you thought about painting the center caps yellow. They would look a lot like the AEV wheels then. I have been considering just doing the center caps on mine, or maybe making some new ones.
I would really like to either have my wheel re-anodized a darker gray (i.e. titanium or argent) or get some of the argent wheels from the mountain edition.
Anyone get them re-anodized a different color?
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Looks good! I'll be doing mine tomorrow. Tested it out on the spare and liked it. I think I'm gonna paint the center white and the bolts white cause my JK is white. Hopefully it'll look good