Okay, so I decided to change the wheel color on my BBS 17’s. Theyre the plain silver like everyone else has right now. I would like to do a bronze finish on them. I’m 90% sure I want bronze and 10% anthracite. Theres several nice looking bronze wheels around, and I’m wondering what you guys think. Theres one finish Id like to go with if i go bronze, but I want to hear what all of you would say.
This is the finish that I want to go with.
This is a nice shade. Its kinda dark, so it wont stand out tremendously, but its got nice highlights on the curved surfaces, so the faces on the spokes on my wheels will glow in the sun. What do you think?
Heres a few other possibilities for the finish
^^^^This one here is a great wheel, but i’m thinking its too bright ^^^^
^^^^thats nt bad also, but its got too much orange in it, so itll look like orange/yellow on the car vs bronze^^^^
Another thing i’m totally unsure of is if i want flat, semi gloss, or high gloss finish on the wheels. I wanted to do flat, so theyre not gleaming, but have just lighter spots where the highlights would be from the sun. I dont want them glistening. What do you guys think?
Sure it does, the front of your car gets quite hot sitting in direct sunlight, and cools when driving…and certainly gets hotter than your wheel sshould be getting from braking…and it’s not like you track the car. Plus it’s IMMENSELY cheaper, the ‘benefits’ just don’t outweigh the initial investment. It’s so easy to paint them too.
It doesnt cost THAT much, really. obviously its a lot less to spray them with paint and clear them. I dont have a paint gun though. I’m okay with rattle cans, but i dont think I can get the finish on it as nice as they’d have after media blasting the silver off and doing powdercoat over a perfectly clean wheel. There are a couple of tiny tiny chips in them, so i’d like to smooth that out. I dont have enough experience with repairing anything like that, so I dont want to try. At least not on a nice set of wheels. If they were shitty 100 dollar wheels, hell yes i’d rattle can those without thinking twice. I dont think the nose of the car heats up as much as the wheels do while braking. I accidentally touched em once after comin off the highway to get gas. Something was stuck to the wheel and I wanted to peel it off. Did not feel all that good, gotta tell ya.
Not that much? Powdertech quoted me $600 to have my wheels blasted and PC’d…if I can control the finish myself, and paint them and have the finish last HALF as long for $100 (which is even expensive for a DIY job) I’d be ecstatic.
I know people who’ve gotten wheels PC’d only to have them start flaking after going through a carwash :ohnoes
Think about it this way…if you get them coated, and something happens a week later and you eff the finish…out $600 on PC’ing them…how pissed would you be?
Now imagine all you’d have to do is take the wheel off, and at MOST scuff the wheel up with a pad and spray it again AND you still have cash to save for suspension, which you NEED :rofl
Make sure your powdercoater knows that he doesnt need to heat the wheels to 1200*F like in industrial powdercoating. Crazy hot temps will weaken wheels.
