Just wanted to post this pic. :leaving:

Where did he get the wheels painted? They are looking good. Good and dusty.

Clever sign for the back drop.

Fearless? You guys scare me.....

What's the problem??? Somebody seemed to think I needed instruction to stay out of the woods???? They may be right.

Wheels painted, check. I'll give you one guess where they were done. Examine the picture..... Look closely.

You painted them.

Are those crop circles TB ? My garage floor has some nice hues going.

...might want to try some Scott's lawn fertilizer on those "spots" on the lawn...

Let's see a closeup of those painted wheels.

Yup. Ohio has the worlds smallest ailens.....

I think I have a close up at home. I'm a master with a spray can. They actually look quite good. And, with the growing layer of dust from the HP+ pads, nobody can tell any longer if they didn't (that's why I made them that color).

I have "wash 'n wear wheels".

I was thinking of trying brake clean. Gotta clean the paint off of the grass, right?

LOL too funny! I got my ass handed to me by the wife for doing something similar to that......well ok it was Brake kleen but hey.....the grass grew back.

Brake cleaner puts Roundup to shame. There's none of that silly "wilts in a few hours, dies within weeks nonsense". With a good dose of brake cleaner, weeds wilt within minutes and are dead soon after.

Sure, it's probably carcinogenic, it's expensive, and the weeds (or grass) do grow back, but ....

And, it kills bees.

I was unloading my old 3/4 ton truck one day and suddenly had a swarm of bees around me. Seems the nest was under the inside bedrail. Being out of wasp spray, I dispatched a friend to the garage for a few cans of brake clean. We stuck in the red nozzles and "went for it". We were shooting them out of the sky (great fun) until I saw him (in slow motion) swing the can around after a bee that was headed towards my face. Yup, full dose of brake clean right in the right eye. That hurts. That hurts bad......

But, it kills bees dead.

(just not the best eye flush)

I have used it numerous times as an insect killer. Just a word of advice.....don't spray the insect when its on the side of your house

Vinyl siding?

Oh, and it cleans cat urine off of industrial tile when you are moving out of an apartment..... (brake clean).

Ask and ye shall receive.

When I first met hubby he was working at a GM dealer. He taught me Brake cleaner works really good on those black widows under the hood of customer cars!

I only need to paint my rear rims on the z06... the brake pads do a good enough job on the fronts, I just need the rears to match lol

That's why I painted them "brake dust color" (I don't know why they don't just name it that).

And that's exactly why I want to do the same. Getting tired of having to religiously clean my wheels every weekend, and still have visible brake dust on them two days later. I haven't cleaned my wheels in a whopping three weeks now, and the fronts in particular are pretty much the color you painted yours, with the inner portion just being a slightly lighter shade.

I'll probably lay some newspaper down when I paint mine though, if only because I don't have a lawn that will grow back, but just a paved driveway that hopefully will never do any sort of growing.

Go to Advance auto (where I got mine) and look for Duplicolor "Graphite" wheel paint. I hosed the rims off with brake clean, wiped with a rag. Let them dry and gave them 2 coats. It's doing well so far.

Ask Mericet about my original wheels. I tried to clean them with a wire brush. There is about 1/16 to 1/8th inch thick coating of brake dust and rotor material around the edges. I didn't clean them for 2 complete sets of brake pads (carbotechs).

A little secret. Leave the valve stems in them, it keeps paint out of the hole so the stems still seal properly, then just have the tire shop replace them when you remount the tires. That worked well for me anyway.

Damn, I always thought the old rims were painted!

I ruined my gold diamond spokes on my old 88 GTA like that. Hadn't cleaned them for over a month (diamond spokes in particular are a pain in the ass to clean). Went to an AutoX that was about two hours away from my house. Collapsed the old rubber brake lines on the front and had brake sticking problems, and drove it home like that. At several points I could just smell the whole front wheel assemblies baking they were so hot. Had to replace not just the brake lines, but the rotors, calipers, pads, and wheel bearings, and the old brake dust was essentially permanently baked onto the wheels. I got the lips back to their un-painted, polished shine with some scotch brite and emery cloth, but the diamond spokes were no longer gold powder coat, but brake dust powder coat.

This is what came off my car. This was a rear wheel, the center cap came off of a front wheel (I don't have a pic of the fronts). This is the reason for the paint.