What color for sawblades?

[DegreE]

So I bought some MK4 N/A wheels and now I have the sawblades just sitting around. I pulled the tires off of them and removed the valve stems. They're pretty much ready for paint. I really don't want to do white. Only becasue I don't have the white body moldings to pull off the white package.

The question is now... what color should I paint them?

I was thinking gunmetal.



Any suggestions?

 

[jacques]

if your car is white, then the black wheels/white body contrast is always tasteful.

 

[DegreE]

I was thinking of black, but I don't want it to look cheap. I might as well put steelies on my car. ya know?

 

[ms07s]

Strip and polish.

 

[kHaNg]

hard decision because doing the black i would exspect to never clean the wheels again. But the gunmetal is easy to clean also depends which is more of your taste.

 

[DegreE]

Ugh, polishing? What will I do with the center caps?


I still need to polish the MK4 wheels.

 

[tbcmorris]

A dark graphite grey

 

[xarewhyayen]

graphite, when i had my car white i did my sawblades graphite. Theres a nice spraycan kit i used that worked well. I have them on my black car now and they still look nice. Lemme see if i can dig up pics of them painted graphite with my white car. probably dont have any anymore, my laptop toasted itself with all my pics on it. I do have pics of them graphite on my black car if you want to see that. What i did was get a angle grinder sand kit and went to town on those ribs that are in the sawblades, then got a fine disk to almost polish. Then i got some self etching primer and did 5 coats then wetsand. Then like 5-6 coats of color, 3 light 2-3 medium coats 10 mins apart, then like 7 coats of clear. They came out REALLY nice.

 

[ms07s]

Most saws look fairly good just striped, just polish it for higher gloss and protection. Most just paint the center cap black or that fake chrome stuff.

 

[DegreE]

I did gunmetal on my red 98 Eclipse. Looked hawt until a drunk driver hit me and totaled the car a month after I painted the wheels. lol

 

[xarewhyayen]

http://www.youtube.com/v/l0bXdtQLEyA

My car on the dyno, has the graphite sawblades on it.

Edit: sorry, after rewatching the vid, ya cant see the wheels for shit haha. ill get some good pics up when i look for em.

 

[Kangae]

How about a sweet pink metallic?:biglaugh:

But no seriously, I think gun metal is a good color choice, especially on white.

 

[Supra28]

I say polish would look best on white.

These aren't my pics, just random findings:

Gunmetal just for reference:

 

[Pernilongo]

Yeah gun metal sounds very good, maybe black. Dark colours hide the shape of the objects better. You know, with sawblades, its nothing to be proud of. So the the more monolithic it looks the better.

 

[suprarx7nut]

Polish

 

[Poodles]

polished with black "blades"

 

[ERA]

Black or gunmetal.

 

[Kckazdude]

I am working on polishing a set right now and will paint the 'teeth' and caps black for contrast.

 

[DegreE]

Damn I should have made a poll. I don't want to make another thread.

Wow I'm loving the pic of the gunmetal sawblades. I'm going to pick up with supplies today.


What grit sand paper would you recommend?

 

[boosted17]

Gunmetal FTW!