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Old 04-21-10, 12:31 PM
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Originally I was thinking about powder coating my lug nuts but after some thoughts, I figured it would be too much going on for the wheels. So keeping it subtle and simple, I picked up my valve caps this morning and they look pretty good. Anyone else have different color valve caps?



Old 04-21-10, 12:45 PM
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I think the lugs in the same color as the valve cap would look
Old 04-21-10, 01:22 PM
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paint your wheels purple
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paint the caliper purple and then powder coat the lug nuts the same color
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Looks a little out of place to me. I'd say more color! Btw looks more pink than purple... or I'm just color impaired.
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My front lugs are sunk in so powder coating them would be a waste.
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do the calipers and buy some purple lugs lol
Old 04-21-10, 02:51 PM
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^^ +1. You can paint your calipers purple and get new purple lugs. Here's what purple calipers will look like (from Damaster32):



Old 04-21-10, 03:13 PM
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Very subtle lugs
Old 04-21-10, 03:21 PM
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even thou your lugs are sunk in the front, still~ do it
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that looks more pink than purple
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Do the rivets in purple.
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yeah rivets in dat purp would look nice
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+1 on that looks pink
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Originally Posted by iSuxeL
Do the rivets in purple.
I like the idea! I think I'll do that =p


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