Protege 5 wheels.... to paint or not to paint?

[Benfolio]

I'm getting a set of P5 wheels to run winter tires on the Mazda5, and they're in need of some paint.
So what should I do?
Factory silver?
Paint just the spokes Carbon Gray and keep the lip silver?
Paint it all flat black?
Rhino Line 'em?
Pink w/ purple polkadots?

I suppose I could machine/sand them down to bare metal and clear coat them too....

Not planning on spending any money really, just want to make them look good.

[mountjonas]

paint them dark.

[Benfolio]

paint them dark.

Carbon Gray dark?? (crazy)

[mountjonas]

this dark
http://www.msprotege.com/members/mountjonas/807/IMG_3651.jpg

[JCell]

yes, paint them something very dark

[Lord_Zath]

or paint it a light color if it's for winter use.

or don't paint it at all since it's just gonna get salty

[dommo_g]

Try a dark bronze. Then when you don't like that, paint them flat black and leave the lip. Machine the lip if you have a way.

[Kid Red]

I like the pink polka dot idea.

[Greenridge]

I'm getting a set of P5 wheels to run winter tires on the Mazda5, and they're in need of some paint.
So what should I do?
Factory silver?
Paint just the spokes Carbon Gray and keep the lip silver?
Paint it all flat black?
Rhino Line 'em?
Pink w/ purple polkadots?

I suppose I could machine/sand them down to bare metal and clear coat them too....

Not planning on spending any money really, just want to make them look good.

I'm planning to do the same thing. I have aftermarket rims, and I want to paint my orginal rims black or something to use as winter rims. I'm also not planning on spending a lot of money. Can I just get some spray paint at the hardware store. How will you do it?

[Benfolio]

this dark
http://www.msprotege.com/members/mountjonas/807/IMG_3651.jpg

Mine are the straight spoke 16's...... but I can see where you're going.....