I have steel wheels under my beauty rings, And I am wanting to with with black trim on my truck. Just curious if anyone has ever heard of painting the wheels for a cheap ext. upgrade. I figured if it turned out bad just throw the beauty rings back over em. Any help would be great, thanks

 

Just give them a good soap and water scrub, then a degreasing with a solvent, then a steel wool scuff. Blow them off and mask the tires. Then a couple coats of rustoleum.

They'll look good for years.


John

 

Mine has the basic steel wheels. I rotate in the spare so I use all 5 wheels and Dodge saved 15 cents by not painting the spare wheel gray like the other 4 wheels. My son and I decided we liked the looks of the black spare, so I painted 4 wheels black instead of painting one silver. I used regular rattle can gloss black I got from Agri-Supply. Worked like a charm.

One note, the gray hub caps just didn't work with the red truck and black wheels, so I painted them International Red. I've gotten several comments on my red hub caps, mostly admiring.

If I could figure out to how to post pics, I would show them off.

 

Thanks for the input, I saw a truck pick on here with black steel wheels ( looked to be stock ) other than paint. it looked sharp, and i think for 10 +- bucks its well worth it

 

Oh, and if you figure out how to post pics let me know

 

Painting them body color looks good too...

 

Let's see if this works. Here are my red hub caps.

 

That looks good, the paint holdin up pretty good?