I like the color of the wheels ya painted. Lets see them on yo car now!

 

I used that exact same paint to paint my OEM's. I used the deck of cards, that works really good.

 

I miss the way the car drove on those rims! It would just take off

 

What prep work did you do? I repainted my Rays last summer because they were rashed really bad and I sanded them down, put on a couple layers of primer, and three or four layers of duplicolor silver and they are peeling already... I wish I would have just left them rashed after seeing how they look a year afterwards haha.

I looked into a local powder-coating shop and they want $85/wheel for an oem-like metallic-silver finish or $55/wheel for just a plain silver. For that price I might as well sell mine for cheap and buy new ones in the market with the money I saved getting them powder-coated.

 

DIY Wheel Repair - G35Driver

 

I followed an almost identical guide when I did mine that was posted on maxima.org. The only difference is I used bondo and sanded down the entire wheel because in my paint experience if you don't rough up the surface it won't stick? Either way, mine are flaking around the lug holes where it was very difficult to sand and is pretty much the same surface he painted onto... Hopefully he doesn't see similar results.

 

This isn't true. The reason why the paint won't stick is because the surface you painted must have had something on it, such as grease or dirt.

BONDO will definitely crack on anything that moves and vibrates as much as a wheel does.

 

That's odd... The bondo is holding up just fine and I spent a lot of time cleaning the surface of the wheels. I guess you can never be too careful.
That does make sense that it is flaking around the lug nut holes though since that was a difficult place to clean.

 

here's the stance on the sedan after the wheel alignment today, as well as the specs!!

 

^^^ Looks much better Dawn. Glad you got that worked out. might be time for a front camber kit

 

man...that's what peng said too!

 

Looks great Dawn! I'm a little nervous for mine too But we will see, I think I will try to talk to Andrew about stopping over this Sunday to get those camber kits put in so I can finally get an alignment. I think I might lower the front just a bit more yet before I get it done, I'm just hesitant to hold off a bit since I don't wanna get an alignment done and then realize later I want to change my height or stance

 

Good Morning fellas! Greetings from SoFlo Dawn you should really consider investing in the front camber kit, It will help out a ton not only saving your tire life but will make your wheels look more flush. i noticed now that i don't have my front SPC camber arms my camber went from -1.7 to -2.9 and now my front offset dont look like a +20 LOL! gonna reinstall it here pretty soon.

 

Looks good Dawn!!! A front camer kit prob wouldn't be a bad idea ha

 

yeah i'm hoping with my summer wheels and tires that i don't have to realign anything...but we shall see

yeah i guess so..., i was hoping i wouldn't have to haha.