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This is my poor mans guide to having decent looking wheels. This would also be useful for winterizing your car!

Stuff youll need:
Some Hub Caps
Some good plastic paint (i used krylon fusion)
Some painters tape
A butter knife
Scissors
A Blow Dryer
Patience
(maybe some sand paper if your painting old or stock hubs)

To start off get all prep stuff within reach of your workplace. Notice the mispelled word "extreme" on the hub cap box. Its sure to add some horsepower!

Next mask off anything you dont want painted. This is by far the most precarious and dextrous thing youll have to do. Use the scissors to cut the tape. Use the butter knife to press the tape against the side of the phony lugs. You could get pretty creative here but i chose to keep it simple
(sanding is good prep work for things that arent in perfectly clean, paintable condition)


Next step is to start painting. Hold the can approximatley 8 inches away and cover the entire area with 4 or 5 coats. Be sure to get all the weird angles and grooves!



Then let them sit for about 30 minutes and get a blow dryer, hold it a foot away, and go over the caps with it. Dont hold it too close or youll scorch the paint. And this isnt for drying them faster, its for heating the paint slightly to make it more resiliant.



Then intstall them and look like a million bucks!




P.S. Im not responsible if you screw anything up! And also i know my car is a 4x100 bolt but it was either some five bolts or some that looked like they came off a 89 taurus. Oh and im ready for 4x4 jokes

 
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well you did a good job but painting your hubcaps is rice no matter what

 
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wow.

 
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ditto.

 
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is this thread serious?

 
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somewhat yes lol. i know its not an awesome look but it was either this or my grimey steelies. And one oem hub cap from the dealer was more expesive than 4 new ones and paint.

 
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oo and welcome to the forums! baha

 
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well they dont look too bad, and its an easy diy 5 lug conversion

 
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sounds like shoulda got some of the spinners and painted em gold lol

 
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lol my oem hubcabs need repainting and im'a diy it lol no seriously thanks for the thread welcome to the forum bahahahahahahahah

 
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ridiculous

 
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LOL these replys are amusing
forgot to add i only spent 35 dollars and an hours time

 
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yea when i first got my car i did the same thing but i only did it, to prove that i dont scrape, so giving my p's a better piece of mind when i bought my rims. Lol and i bought black rims. If was only 5 dollars for me Oh yeah dont use a towel next time... news paper FTW, and also dont forget to de rust your steelies.




Looking back at it i shoulda just painted my steelies black.. not hubcaps... everyone just laughs... if not out loud, in their heads.

 
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yeah my steels arent rusted, just not nice lookin lol. and i just bought this car a couple weeks ago with no hub caps so the hub caps are only temporary for a few months till i can gather some funds to get some volks or ro_ja's. id just rather spend 35 bucks now and then get some real nice rims then buy some shitty rotas or drags and THEN buy some real deals lol

 
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That's so ghetto. This thread should be changed to "1st steps to becoming a ricer".

 
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i think the fact that i painted them is whats annoying people lol
theyre just set that painting hub caps is shitty (and it is, im not tasteless)
but in your honest opinion can any of you say what i did actually looks worse than steelies? i was just shoppin for champagne on a beer budget lol

 
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not everyone can afford rims. ill admit, sure it doesnt look the greatest...but it looks way better than steelies.

imo..steelies makes you look lazy and more of a ricer than painted hubcaps. at least it makes you look like you care about your car.

oh yeah, and welcome to the forums.

 
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lol, wow nice 5 lug conversion
how did you even screw them into your steelies?? glue???

 
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Its called a "retension ring" alot of wheel covers use em. oem honda ones are some of the few ive encountered that are actually bolted on with the lug nuts

 
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A1 steak sauce and ketchup ftw.

 
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Steelies FOR LIFE. Hubcaps just add weight PFFFfffffff...
i never was really that into looks.... untill my alti i had never bought rims...
my hatch came with aftermarket 13s
then one day a 96 ex came it to get new rims at my shop... i said where do you want me to put the steels? he said throw em out... SCORE 14" steels.... lol
then when i bought my 02 ex i got the enkei Honda rims to be diffrent... they gave me the 15" steels in the trunk... SWEET now i got 15s on my hatch lol i even switched out the steels to the 7g once



steels ftw
rims are in the future. I'm just more into performance right now...

 
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That looks horrible. Those hubcaps are the ones that stick way out off the rim.
If you had picked some better hub caps it would still be bad, but not as bad as those. Get some side shots looking down the length of the car.

 
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I rock the steelies.. what of it???

 
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you park in a barn?

 
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hahahha nooo that was a car port in a shitty city I used to live in

 
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Before I put my steelies on this winter, I sanded and painted the steelie (black). Then I cleaned the OEM hubcap and shot some clear. They look way better than OEM.
I can take pics if you like.

 
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Way to back into the barn.....Ricer.
lol

 
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Shuda used my DIY lol nice 5 lug swap though

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