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Which color should I plasti-dip my wheels ?

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lol the IS crew is so hard to please, haha those pictures were taken at like 7pm, ill make sure the next pics are gonna be in complete darkness :D

sir21 said:
When you move the knob listen under the hood if there is hissing noise. If there is then check your connections. As far as adjusting vertical there is a tan colored plastic adjustment screw with an Allen wrench opening. It's right at the top of the headlight seen through a narrow round opening. Horizontal adjustment is behind the headlight. Somewhere in the middle there is a sunk black rubber round cover. Take it out and that's the adjustment. Don't remember what tool is needed for that.

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And yeah. Those are NOT nighttime pics. One can still tan at that time of day
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for the love of everything I spent like 20minutes looking around for what you saying I couldn't find anything :| I must be going crazy, I didn't hear any hissing noise so im sure the connections are okay. I had my body shop guy put my bumper and lights back on I'm sure he just tighten the bolts a bit too much and their misaligned
 
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These were some pictures after I got back home from the accident and before any bodywork was done

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and on a good note, these bad boys came in today !

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All lights on (nightime)

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closeup with the headlight on

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closeup with the headlights off

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Just day time running lights on

Overall im pretty happy with them for only 8 bucks you really couldn't beat it
-just im afraid im gonna get pulled over for being this blue didn't expect it to be THAT blue on the ebay auction
 
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So here are some pics.

This is the adjustment screw (tan) for vertical adjustment
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This is the horizontal adjustment. It's behind the headlight convered by a rubber plug. I don't know how hard it'll be to access with the headlights mounted

With plug on
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With plug out, exposing the adjustment screw/bolt
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Hope that helps
 

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I will be redoing my wheels again very soon. This time I wanted to take a different route with it, gonna try out plasti-dip with the metalizers. I am currently stuck on which color to choose the silver one Ive seen people say its more of a GTR gunmetal (thats what one of the videos said) and the gold is goldish bronze you could say kinda hard to tell from the videos but you get the idea.

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basically I would have to plasti-dip it black first then add the metalizers on after anytime
 
Def let us know how the rims come out bc I might try this on my FX50 rims for next winter just to see what they look like.
 
out of the ordinary but someone stole one of my hub caps this morning DAMIT !
my FX looks weird with just 3 caps now :| does anyone know where I could buy just one ? I checked ebay but it seems like they only have caps for the 20inches
 
mr T said do it GOLD fool ! , and no pitty for the fool who stole your single cap...

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Wow, that Plastidip Metalizer look so darn good. Really silver metalizer over matte black will give you the gun metal look. So, my understanding is that you have to have the matte plastidip the wheel first.
 
Wow I'm really liking the gunmetal look.. Might give it a try when I get bored with my current wheel color.



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Bought the plasti-dip today at Home-Depot for 6 bucks a can, got 5 cans.
blacked out my door handles, the chrome in the back, the Infiniti logo, and the long running piece down the FX
will be painting my two front tires tonight.
will be uploading some pictures later :)
 
change of plans :| don't think I will be doing the metalizers this time around, gonna test how durable the plasti-dip is first personally before I get the metalizer.
Thanks to all who voted !
 
k3fir said:
Looking awesome, man! The headlights are sick too! How long did it take to plasti dip all of that?
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Not too long actually I did the trim in less then 2 hours ? most of the time was just prepping the car to get it ready for the palsti dip
The rims are actually taking me a few nights. Im doing two wheels a night and im letting a good 20-30minute dry time between coats and putting on at least 7-8 coats to make it a lot tougher seems to be working out though, currently working on the two back wheels tonight. The two front wheels were installed last night and it rained this morning; all seems to be holding up really well.
 
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