MK3, who has had their wheels painted? Pics please

 Getting my wheels refurbed shortly and am thinking of changing the colour. My car is galaxy grey with 17in Sport wheels and I’m finding it quite hard to visualise how it will look with the wheels a different colour. No thinking of anything too radical so will probably go for anthracite or metallic black but quite like the look of the Nissan GTR wheels on the MY12 cars. Have all these ideas going round in my head so would be great to hear and see what other’s have done, thanks

If you have a friend that is any good in Photoshop, give them some pictures of your car and they can select the wheels and change the colour and give you an impression of a number of options.

 Had a bit of a play in Photoshop and in the end decided to go for dark metallic grey with red brake callipers. Thanks to Ultimate Paint and Valet Gloucester for what looks to be a cracking job

Stil waiting for some sun to see the full effect!

Well pleased with the result

Very nice. Love it. Big Smile

Looking good, aRSy - that definitely works Thumbs up

 Liking it here too  !  Thumbs upThumbs upThumbs up

Looking very smart - mine need doing at some point.

What did you paint the caliperrs with? High temperature paint or just normal stuff???

 

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 normal hammerite is great for calipers. brake cleaner and a stiff wire brush first to give the paint a nice surface to stick to though. i did my mk3 caliper in silver probably a year ago. i just redid them because hey were getting cover / stained by brake dust. the actual paint was still fine though. i dont do trackdays, but i dont mind “a nice8/ drive” occasionally though Thumbs up

 

edit: i also do the insides of the discs up to the actual shiny bit in the same soilver. doesnt need it, just asthethetically pleasing to my eye. paint on the discs was starting to show rust patches after the same year, so i redid those aswell.

 

No absolutely, my brake discs have started to go rusty so i plan to clean them up and repaint them silver, i’m either going to remove the stone guards or re-paint those too. The calipers im not sure on as i plan to do trackdays so might have to go the two pack route, not sure yet Thinking

 

 

 Thanks for all the comments, Ultimate did the calipers for me too at the same time, they used high temp. paint but don’t specifically know which one. Should’ve got them to do the stone guards too ,still at least the bright calipers divert attention from the stone guards!