New UK Owner - 370z GT - White - Black Wheels

alexpila

Alright cool wenever u can just post some!! I'm looking at spraying mine black or like a mettalic grey to match my carbon fang cover and i got 50% tints aswell... here is a picture of mine...

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09 7AT Touring 370z, Pearl White, Evo-R Carbon Fang Cover, Carbon Top Cover, HKS Centre Pipe, Illuminated Kickplates, Custom Sprayed stock RAYS

StLRedrider

congrats and welcome aboard. nice Z

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Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today J.Dean

dcrew1x

That law in the UK is the same as California. What a bummer

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2009 PG 6MT Sports Stillen Gen3 CAI | Stillen CBE | AMS Short Shifter | Nismo Brace Kit

toon_herit

Nice.

I'm getting a Storm White GT in 2 weeks and been looking for matt black wheels in 20" but there's no choice in the UK, only 19". I've decided to get the stock wheels coloured and wondered if you got someone to do them for you or did them yourself - and if so what you did and how it turned out.

They look good on the pictures

Cheers, Paul.

Currently Azure Blue 350Z GT, soon to be Storm White 370GT (had a red 300ZX Twin Turbo as well).

Zaggeron

Congrats. Time to change your "Drives:" tag

sprint7

Sorry been too busy to take any more with better lighting... Like the carbon fangs :-) Not for me though... I've been looking at the Mines carbon splitter and don't think the carbon fangs will look as good with that... Want to lower and do exhaust before I get to that...

sprint7

Thanks man... done! :-)

sprint7

I had it done by a body-shop recommended by the dealer first. They did a poor job and used a solvent-based paint without keying the surface properly.

I kerbed the wheels a while after and the shoddy work was revealed because the finish couldn't be repaired... paint was flaking off because it hadn't bonded properly... so had to be completely re-done.

I took it to ChipsAway in St. Albans who had the wheels stripped back to the metal, rekeyed, primed/powder-coated, finished in black-gloss water-based paint and lacquered. Cost £75 per wheel... took a few days but was worth it.

Much better finish and repairable now... I know this because a broken-kerb protruding from the pavement chipped the rim and with the exception of the small chip, the rest of the paint stayed on... no flaking... Took it back to them and they touched in the chip with some black paint. You have to go very close to see where they've done it... They said they could repair it in an hour or two so it would be completely unblemished but it was such a small chip and was so hard to notice once touched in that I decided that it wasn't worth repairing back to a perfect finish for now. Now used to the width of the car so don't expect any more kerbing... lol! Probably will repair soon.

Matt-black? Hmmmm... not sure how that will look with the Storm White paint and glossy-black b-pillar... Try it in photo-shop first.