# Trading rims. **URL:** \ **Category:** Builds\ **Created:** [October 10, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468 "2008-10-10T10:12:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DUKE\_LADUKE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/duke_laduke/32/6317_2.png) [@DUKE\_LADUKE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DUKE_LADUKE)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/1 "2008-10-10T10:12:46Z")
I am trading rims with one of my friends ,but i do not like the blue color he painted them.Would i sand the color off or just repaint them oem color.I just want them back to stock look !! ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/2 "2008-10-10T10:19:34Z")
> [@LaDuke89](#): > > I am trading rims with one of my friends ,but i do not like the blue color he painted them.Would i sand the color off or just repaint them oem color.I just want them back to stock look !! try lots of lacquer thinner. the paint might come off. but if he sanded them youll have to repaint them obviously. hopefully you can restore those wheels as they are kind of a rare mk4 wheel. ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/3 "2008-10-10T10:20:13Z")
go to advanced auto and pick up the silver wheel paint and clear scuff them down with a red scotch brite pad(which can be bought in the sam aisle) do a couple coats of color and a few of clear and be done a nice saturday afternoon jobor if you dont wanna do it buy the paint and drop the wheels off at my house and ill do it for you. ---
**Author:** ![DUKE\_LADUKE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/duke_laduke/32/6317_2.png) [@DUKE\_LADUKE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DUKE_LADUKE)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/4 "2008-10-10T10:23:10Z")
Yea just discussed with him today on the trade , have to figure out when he wants to . Yea brett i agree they are pretty rare and a nice set of oem of the mk4 ---
**Author:** ![K20power](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/41988e/32.png) [@K20power](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/K20power)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 12:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/5 "2008-10-10T12:21:51Z")
Why is this in the 518 Projects section? :confused ---
**Author:** ![GranMassaX](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/granmassax/32/6299_2.png) [@GranMassaX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GranMassaX)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/6 "2008-10-10T12:31:12Z")
chemical strip the wheels then repaint ---
**Author:** ![Fn\_Skanks](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fn_skanks/32/6308_2.png) [@Fn\_Skanks](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fn_Skanks)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/7 "2008-10-13T20:55:41Z")
what wheels are you getting? aircraft paint stripper is pretty strong stuff. should do the trick. ---
**Author:** ![JiM\_P\_2001](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jim_p_2001/32/6364_2.png) [@JiM\_P\_2001](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JiM_P_2001)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/8 "2008-10-13T21:01:24Z")
> [@Fn Skanks](#): > > what wheels are you getting? aircraft paint stripper is pretty strong stuff. should do the trick. makes a fuckin mess though ---
**Author:** ![Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mk4_30r_ban/32/6347_2.png) [@Mk4\_30R\_Ban](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mk4_30R_Ban)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/9 "2008-10-13T21:32:40Z")
i love ![http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/566389388_a5a1f62d69.jpg?v=0](http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1117/566389388_a5a1f62d69.jpg?v=0) ---
**Author:** ![customjeep518](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@customjeep518](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/customjeep518)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/10 "2008-10-13T21:43:39Z")
yo Bobby send me a pic of the rims your getting for the jetta i wana see them hahaha ---
**Author:** ![DUKE\_LADUKE](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/duke_laduke/32/6317_2.png) [@DUKE\_LADUKE](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DUKE_LADUKE)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/trading-rims/239468/11 "2008-10-18T16:25:02Z")
yea so those rims got traded underneath me . White vr6 got them and he spray painted them BLACK on top of the blue !!!