What colour to paint my steelies...

[Golf Houso]

Here are the wheels in questions(I have another two without tires):



And here is the car:

[madglf3]

I will give a vote for leaving them black, and another one for widening them to similar proportions as Ray's steelies. I'm not too sure how good coloured ones would look on a VR like yours, maybe gunmetal would look ok?

[Water Boy]

Maybe a creamy white colour but only if you are rocking wide shizz set-up... Probably best mount 2 wheels on one side of the car get a side on photo then work some photo shop magic

[Preen59]

Hot pink with whale skin hub caps....

[RhysQ]

they are way too thin to look good on any car.....widen the hell out of them! and then paint them ivory with a maroon pinstripe around just inside the edge.

that would look fo' schnitzel ma pretzel!

[Golf Houso]

Keep in mind the budget factor guys, $60 for paint VS. $900 for widened steelies and powder coating

[jayjay]

what diameter are they?

you could white wall em...? but sell your gl and widen them

[rayray086]

Keep in mind the budget factor guys, $60 for paint VS. $900 for widened steelies and powder coating

Or $560 + paint yourself @ Neales Wheels, South Strathfield!

[Golf Houso]

what diameter are they?

you could white wall em...? but sell your gl and widen them

15x6 ET38, I agree somebody buy my GL lol...

Or $560 + paint yourself @ Neales Wheels, South Strathfield!

Hmnn intriguing, but I'm still unwilling to modify the guards since the paint on this car is quite good, bar the bumpers.

I wonder whats the max I could go on them without touching the guards? 15x8 ET 45 and what 15x7.5 ET38?

[rayray086]

All wheel specialists I've seen don't band steelies, only re-barrel them. In that case, there's not a lot of sizes to go for - I know you can go 8", but the next step up will be 10". Not sure about the sizes under 8"!

For conservative, you'll be fine with 8" ET30-35 for the fronts and ET 20-25 for the rears. Flush at best, and still won't foul suspension.

[VR6child]

Are you running these as a permanent thing? Stock wheels got too much rash or something? I reckon go for a lighter colour since you've got a darker car. I'd say silver.

[Golf Houso]

Thanks for that Ray, I want that flush look but still want them to easily removable with no daily scrubbage.

Are you running these as a permanent thing? Stock wheels got too much rash or something? I reckon go for a lighter colour since you've got a darker car. I'd say silver.

The stockers will have semi slicks on the front for drag and other events, and the steelies will be the daily wheels which still need two more new tires on them. I would like to do something a bit different from what I've already seen and hence the colours I'm leaning towards the orange at the moment and I'm getting some lowered springs from Alex so things are starting to shape up...

[Golf Houso]

I've split the other two rims folks, and now that I have all 4 (thanks Matt) I'm just about the sand them back and prep them.

Since widening the wheels are out of the question financially atm, does anyone have anymore suggestions before I decide to give them all a nice thick coat of primer and my favourite PK0080 gloss black?

[Golf Houso]

I've just finished painting them black and will polish them tomorrow. I think I did a pretty good job considering I did the cleaning, prep and painting all in the one afternoon.

Will post pics tomorrow...

[Golf Houso]

Just finished polishing them now I think they turned out ok...