Custom GXP wheels!

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No!
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not digging that either. :angry7:
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I dig it :)
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depends on the car they're on whether they look good or not. i think they look alright
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I would have painted the whole rim black and did the red pinstriping a tad smaller.
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i would need to see a far back shot before my final decision.
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what I found.
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must be painted rims. with vinyl pin stripe. (well we know its vinyl pin stripe cause we see the roll on the ground)
so my guess is the stripe wont last long after a few cleanings.
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No. What's the theme here, "My lugnuts have started to bleed?" The silver on the sides of the spokes doesn't match the body, the black just looks awkward, and I'm betting the red on the wheels doesn't appear anywhere else on the car either.

The more I look at those, the less I like the idea of painting GXP wheels at all. I think the black rim look is dead, unless it's on a black car. And even then, they really only look good if they have a polished lip, which obviously can't be done with GXP rims. They look good in the natural silver, and better in chrome.
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they would look decent on a Black GXP but not too sure on a silver one would look awesome and a Black one with red racing stripes :twisted: like my dream SSEi would look
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They're not bad, but it takes the right car to pull them off.
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Looks like about a 10HP upgrade!
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I like the black on the outside/silver inside, but not the pinstripes...
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:bsnicker:
lewis26 wrote:Looks like about a 10HP upgrade!
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What are you thinking? Everybody knows it takes YELLOW stripes and graphics to add that 10HP! :bhuh: Back to ricer school for you.
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if the whole rim was black w/o the red stripe. i think it would look pretty good. maybe a gunmetal color would be cool too.
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I want to see the rest of the car. Maybe the fit the "big picture"? By themselves, the red is too much.
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Gumball wrote:what I found.
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must be painted rims. with vinyl pin stripe. (well we know its vinyl pin stripe cause we see the roll on the ground)
so my guess is the stripe wont last long after a few cleanings.
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:laughing3: :beerchug:

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lol... scrolling thru the pages my pc was jumpy and I must have gone right by it...
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