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03-19-2010, 08:17 PM | #1 |
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Colored Wheels and wheel weights
Never had anything but silver wheels..so, um....when you get a wheel in Black, Hyperblack, or Gunmetal are there wheel weights available in those colors ?
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03-19-2010, 08:18 PM | #2 |
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Are you referring to the stuff they use to balance wheels?
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For what its worth i've only ever seen chrome..but i suppose you can paint them.
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03-20-2010, 04:27 PM | #6 |
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Good shops will use the more advanced Hunter wheel balancing machines and utilize the option for entering the wheel's spoke count. This allows the weights to be placed directly behind spokes so they're not visible from most angles. This sometimes takes a little more weight, and putting some behind two adjacent spokes, but looks much better than visible weights.
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03-20-2010, 07:27 PM | #7 |
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Thanks everyone ! Interesting....you would think there would be a market for color matching wheel weights. Other than using the aforementioend weight/spoke technique seems a shame to take away the look of a colored wheel with silver weights laying on the inside rim......
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My wheel/tire guy colored them with a black sharpie. Worked pretty good.
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