powdercoating
 

thinking about powdercoating my nismo wheels anysuggestions or hints my car is the darker silver

sorry man :shakes head: i have no search skills :icon14:

Frost your Priceless! :bowrofl:

I think he is looking for color suggestions, but that is funny frost!

then black insert with silver or chrome lips

Titty pink

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thought you guys would help but i guess not thanks for the childish comments

OP is clearly not a member of my350z and how they help with advice.
if its dark silver just do black IMO

your original post had no direction. Did you want suggestions or hints on HOW to powdercoat? IF to powdercoat? WHAT to powdercoat? WHERE to powdercoat? etc...

If you are looking for answers, please post with enough description that we can know what you are talking about and answer you with an educational response.

Some of these guys that have responded are actually well educated on the Z and could probably give you some good answers, but they also have a sense of humor and will give you a hard time when being vague :tup:

just looking for some color ideas angd whereor what to powdercoat didnt think i had to be so clear

Clear questions will get you faster answers on forums :tup:

For color on a Platinum Graphite...I'd lean towards matte black myself. You don't want to go a dark silver because if you don't do it just right, the wheel color will look funny next to the body.

As far as where to powdercoat, you might try your respective location section to see if anyone knows of a good shop near you. if you are willing to ship, talk to Mike here on the forums, he does great work.

Bleh @ vague opening posts...

Color ideas? It's your car, you should powdercoat to a color you feel comfortable with. Don't go and colorize the wheel because some of us on the forum said it'd look good. I'd suggest looking through the photoshop thread or something to get rough ideas of what to expect with different colors, but generally I'd shy away from powdercoating anywhere close to the body color, as (what Caravan said) any differences will look kind of funny. Black is a popular choice, but eh, to each their own!

And yellow pages might help you more for WHERE. Unless you do want to talk to Mike here on the boards.

any quotes on pricing? i have some 22s i wanna powdercoat and are curious how much its gonna cost

Matte Black!!!

A local shop charged me $400 to powdercoat my wheels (including tax). Could be cheaper or more expensive depending on where a person lives.

I have a guy that does it for 75 a wheel and turns them in 2-3 days if anyone needs help.

To the OP, I had my stock wheels powdercoated to use as winter wheels. Went with flat black (guy at the shop called it solar black). They charged $60 per wheel which was very reasonable IMO.

http://www.the370z.com/members/schru...intershoes.jpg

If by darker silver you mean yours is Platinum Graphite, then the pic below with flat black wheels on PG may help. It's no Nismo, but might give you an idea.

http://www.the370z.com/members/schru...9-img-3628.jpg

hahahahaha:rofl2:

seriously OP, talk to mike, if you need something powdercoated, he's the guy you want to do it

So have been shopping around to get my wheels done, even pulled out of an appointment after seeing some wheel samples they had done (not impressed). I have found a good shop near where I live that is used to dealing with very high end cars, and they are wanting to charge $740 for the whole job, including the paint, mounting and balancing.

This seems way high to me after seeing what everyone else here is paying. To those that got the job done for less than $500 what was included in package?

The paint I am getting needs to be mixed, it will be very similar, perhaps a tad darker, than the wheels that come on the 40th anniversary Z.

My $400 price for a set requires the wheels to come to me unmounted and just covers the refinishing, not mounting or balancing. Their price is a little high, but unmounting and then remounting is probably about 150, but if you let them take care of everything, especially with paint instead of powdercoat, they will be responsible for making sure they don't get scraped when reinstalling, and that would be worth the extra to me. Imagine if you took them to a tire shop after having them painted and the tire shop scraped one, that would cause a headache.

That's a great point, thanks for the heads up. I will probably go ahead with them, as they made me feel quite comfortable with their level of expertise.
I may have misspoke, but the wheels are still being powdercoated. The shop sent me straight to the place that mixes the color/paint for me to select the exact color sample I wanted so there will be no surprises.

I get them done the first week of Jan so I will be sure to post pics after, they will be similar to a competition gun-metal and I was adamant about them looking like they came from the factory that way after the fact, so hopefully they don't disappoint.

Clutch Up - Home

Powdercoating cheap and bad ***... I had my rims done for like 500 bucks.... Check them out. They are in Warrenton VA The dudes number is

540-222-5102
clutchup@email.com

They also do tinting, custom paint... they're legit
Custom Car Paint & Graphics #540-428-9288 - Home & clutchup.webs.com

I dont know about 22's but ive had 19's powdercaoted matte black b4 and i was charged 90 bucks per wheel. I think for 19's most shops charge between 75 and 100 per wheel.

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