FeelTheLex

Hello all Club lexus owners, I'm going to share a quick and cheap mod all of you can do at home and i hope all of you can appreciate...

i have a 1994 Lexus ES300 and i am in the process of painting the rims..

Heres a before picture & an after picture....i only have 1 rim done so far but as you can see this is going to come out great...i will post more pictures as i finish up if anyone has questions on how i did this or why or any kind of question please post!

Vil3x

imo, I think the lexus emblem should be shine. any idea?

Charlesc87

Be careful not to get curb rash, that'd make it look bad quickly, and might want to matte clearcoat those sucka's a couple times. just sayin'. Looks pretty good though!

FeelTheLex

i used Plasti dip....Youtube plasti dip or google it.....i'm not sure if there is a clear coat for that stuff but it looks great the way it is,looks much better in person then a picture from my poopy iphone 3g.....i did the hood and trunk emblems too thats why i did the wheels(kind of like a platinum edition es300)

it looks good with my smoked tail lights....have 6k HIDS in low beam and LED dashboard lights,door lights,interior dome lights,trunk light,license plate lights,visor lights....i love it and when i get sick of it ill peel it off and clean her up!

FeelTheLex

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iTrader: (3)

You need a lug nut

03 ES

looks good! i was considering doing plastic-dip on my mirrors
let us know how it holds up....and you're missing a lug nut!

Hayk

iTrader: (1)

Not my style, but I can appreciate the work put into it. It's also nice that it's reversible

I think he's missing lugs nuts on all four wheels, it's the security lock.

01LEXPL

iTrader: (10)

Waste of a click. This has been covered on the Internet everywhere.

Nice way to get your alloys looking like a cheap steelie...

Justin2JZ

C'mon now everyone has their own personal preferences. If you don't have anything positive to say, don't say anything at all

EEngineer

personally, i'm against painting rims cuz it will almost always turn ugly pretty quickly, but if it holds good and you like the blacked out rims, then it's good stuff.

and i agree the lexus logo should be left chrome, lucky plastidip is rubber, u can peel paint on the logo.

i used plastic drip on the rubber flap underneath all the doors cuz the body shop over sprayed them when i got the car painted, it worked out pretty great.

FeelTheLex

it looks better in person
its not paint it plastic dip it peels off easily lol
+ I have never seen an ES in my state with this color wheels(i like it)

Heres a pic of the next day(drove about 30 miles on the highway still looks good

& Yes i lost my lock key (wheel shop stripped my secruity lock to align my tires)

01LEXPL Sorry i wasted your time but it was your choice to click on here & i don't re-call seeing this on club lexus....thought i would share sorry to **** you off but hey its better to be pissed off then pissed on!

FeelTheLex

I Did not paint my tires that is tire shine....Just throwing that out there before someone on the internet has something smart to say.

robawelch

Tad unnecessary?

MrShim78

i am thinking of doing this for my winter tire rims..looking for some old es rims i can use for my 97 es.. then will platidip them black and use them as winter tire rims and use the regular alloy rims for the summers....
hmmmm
thanks for this, atleast i can see what it may look like.
alot of work though, but good you stuck to it and finished the project. good stuff