Paint Wheel Nuts?

[VjamesY]

Hey, sorry if this is is a stupid question or if has already been covered,
I recently just bought some 19 inch metallic grey advanti viennas for my vy of a mate, with that he gave me the hole set of wheel nuts or wateva, but i think that it would look good if the wheel nuts were black (their silver).

the questions i am asking are: -can i paint them? or will the paint strip of em when they are put on the car
- can i just buy black ones from somewere? are they cheap?
-do u guys think that the wheel nuts shouldnt stand out to much, like the rims should be the main focus, just want some general opinions


i have a mate that has one of those air spray set ups n could get him to paint em if that could work, just let us know,

thanks guys and sorry again about my lack of general car knowledge, lol

[STEALTHY™]

What size and type are the nuts? You can get covers for some types, then have them whatever colour you want!


Note the one i lost

[VjamesY]

thanks mate, yeh probs pick em up from an auto store somewere ay, that saves alot of time haha

[DANNY8]

Maybe get them powdercoated (obviously not the thread).....that's pretty tuff, hard to chip.

[NORTI]

Holdens sell the black caps like STEALTHY has above. I would say ANY paint would just be a waste of time

[VjamesY]

kk thanks fellas

[STEALTHY™]

Maybe get them powdercoated (obviously not the thread).....that's pretty tuff, hard to chip.

It would still scratch off eventually after having the wheel brace on them.

[aaron.blake]

i painted mine but that kinda failed haha

[Gero SV6]

i would paint the covers not the nuts. most workshops use rattle guns to undo wheels nut so paint will only last a second when the wheel are removed

[Dan VS 231]

I was thinking of looking into some nut covers as well asmy chromeish mag nuts are looking a bit shabby after a few years and a bunch of times on and off. Do they happen to come in any other colours like silver maybe?

[Zeussy]

I was thinking of looking into some nut covers as well asmy chromeish mag nuts are looking a bit shabby after a few years and a bunch of times on and off. Do they happen to come in any other colours like silver maybe?

Hey Dan,

The crome wheel nuts do get a little shabby looking after a while, but you can polish them up with something like autosol... they come up looking like new, even if they have a little surface rust on them, and if you're a lazy ass like some people you can just take off two at a time - polish - do them back up - tight, then repeat until all done.. or wait till you need to do something under there...

And on the VY with stocko alloys they had silver-ish ones, I think they left the black ones for SS, or HSV's -- maybe??