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Jan 13, 2005 | 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by hirdlej

I say it depends on which rim style you're calling "stock". Since you say aluminum, I would say no to painting them black. However if you were going with the steel wheels, I would say do it and find yourself a set of chrome center caps. See if there's any junkyards in your area with new wrecked 03-05 trucks in the yard. Go collect yourself 4 SPARE rims. They have 16 inch black steel rims underneath of them for spares. Might be able to get by cheap and then you can rely on the paint sticking. I managed to find 1 in a yard and then 3 silver painted ones that I was going to strip to match the spares. Instead I found some SS rims

If you didn't live so far from MN I'd sell you all 4 rims so you'd have a set to paint and put on your truck. Then you could leave your stock alum rims alone.

Joe

I have the LT model truck, so they are not the ones in Illnali's picture. I personally do not care for those rims in the pic. I was thinking more along the lines of a gloss black as well.

Jan 14, 2005 | 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ILLNALI

Now that's tough looking

But where's the chrome centers?

Jan 15, 2005 | 01:33 AM

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That does look tough, but the chrome centers would ruin the tough look in my opinion. I think only certain wheels can really pull off the blacked out look and even then they don't always look right on some vehicles.