hubbard said:
And Grizzly, I finally realized that you painted the actual hubcap, and not the wheel. It looks real good. What kind of paint? Spray paint? and how did you get the red line on? Looks like you did a good job. I can't believe that I didn't think to paint them....I'm always painting stuff.
HAHA! Thanks. They look worse the closer you get and the longer they stay on the car! It was a quickie job before last winter and I did ZERO prep work to the cap aside from washing them before I painted. So, it's lasting pretty well when you consider that.
I had a spray can of Hot Lava made up by my local NAPA store and bought/had lying around a can of Krylon/Rustoleum (can't remember which and probably doesn't matter) gloss black. Also bought/had lying around a can of clearcoat (no idea what brand, but it was probably cheap). I masked off the center Scion emblem and sprayed the appropriate places on the cap with the Lava. Then I taped off the center "gear" indentation and the stripes and hit it with the black. Everything was lined up by eye and hand. I then unmasked everything and hit it with the clear.
I would never show with the caps on, but they're better than the silver on my car for the winter here in Iowa. If you took a ruler to them they'd probably be horribly off, but to the naked eye they look pretty good and that's all I really cared about.
So, you probably didn't want all that, but thanks for asking!
-Alex