Karlos1

I recently bought a reasonably priced set of dual spoke wheels (thanks 02Allroad) that have a bit of scuff and curbage. After looking into getting one or more of them refinished professionally, I've decided to go the DIY route. There are a few good DIY articles on refinishing wheels out in the archives here and on other forums, so I figured I'd give it a shot.

I am definitely leaning towards trying to match the OEM silver color, but I was just wondering if black, gunmetal, anthracite, etc, might look alright as well. My AR is atlas grey and these will eventually be my summer rims. So I was wondering:

1) does anyone have any photos of an AR with a non-stock color dual spoke wheel? Or even other wheels on an AR that are not silver? (I did find a picture of refinished black ones which I actually kinda like... not sure how they'd look on a grey AR though: https://forums.audiworld.com/allroad/msgs/215415.phtml)

2) if anyone can photoshop a pic of a grey AR changing the color of the dual spoke wheels, I'd be curious to see how that would look.

Thanks everybody.
-Karl

SKIroad'r

gunmetal will just look like your wheels are dirty all the time.

Karlos1

Probably a little too much grey everywhere as well. Thanks.

SKIroad'r

Black on Black looks stealth, Balck on Gray, will prob look like steelies

allroadCole

<img src="http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q43/thinkri/frtshot1.jpg">

<img src="http://madisonminer.com/images/ar/x3.jpg">

<img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/108298/greygrey.jpg">

ar-Rings

ya gotta love those sprint blue cars shaded in grey )

allroad'Ed now

But don't forget to redo the center caps too.

FWIW- I took my outer piece off to wet sand, primer and paint. I used up two star tools doing it since the ten thousand bolts are loctited in from the factory. Good thing I had an air ratchet or it would have taken forever. So if you buy the tool, might not hurt to get two just in case.

Karlos1

But then again, those are the nicer looking RS4 style, and not the dual spokes. Hmmm.

Thanks for the pics!

Karlos1

Do you happen to remember the size of the star tool required? (are they also called triple square drivers??) I was looking to buy one of those soon... will definitely pick up two now.

Thanks!

Karlos1

But I'm generally pretty lazy, so the brake dust would make them look dull black quickly... just like steelies.