So I'm really happy with my 850.

But I want to do a few cheap and easy things to it until I get back on my feet and do some suspension work to it.

I have thought about painting my rims from silver to a light gunmetal color similar to the 92ish Saab 9000 turbo three spoke rims.

My friend says I should paint the gray trim gloss black on my car, but idk...kind of looks good like that.

Refer to my sig for image of car.

Thoughts?

 

Paint the molding body color, and do the rims GunMeatal. It will look awsome.
While your at it, paint the grill black....

 

Any recommendations on what paint to use for the grille?

 

Use plastic coat for the grill
For the body moldings I painted then back gray on my Yellow one using duplicolors molding paint.
Also for the wifes car I painted her rims with the duplicolors rim paint see pics below.

Before


After






Also one with the grill painted on the wifes car

 

i used the krylon fusion black gloss..works damn good..but i am sure tech wont steer u wrong either[sm=partyparty.gif].

adn the grille black does look amazing..

paint black trim, front grille blakc and tint..made my wagon look good!

 

Tech is seriously the nicest and most knowledgeable guy I have encountered on a car forum.


Anyway, I'll find the link to my intro thread and you can see pics of my 850.

The grille is painted black metallic/DARK gunmetal-ish leaving only the slant bar and Volvo emblem chrome.


I like the white car. I just don't know if it will flow with my car because its a dark color.

Hmm...


Well...the calipers are going to be painted Bronze tonight anyway...woot!

 

Cool I cannot wait to see pics of it all done.

 

Oh...and ha....On my SC300 I have garden edging modded to the front lower bumper cover for a front lip.

I need to redo it better, but from ten feet back it looks SICK


I might do it to the 850, just not as DAAAAAAAYYYYYYYUUUUUUUUUUUM!

The 850 isn't as VIP baller as my SC is...lol

Here are pics of my SC: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...;id=1159920004

Notice when I got it with the wangsta chrome rims and now with my five spokes in black.

 

Take a pic at my SC and let me know what you all think.

I have built that thing for cheap so far. Lots of mods for steal prices.

The Volvo is my savior so I can add a little snail action the 2JZ under the hood of the SC.

Decided against going with the 97+ front bumper so I can fix the body damage, repaint the front end (rest of the car is really nice) and boost the car.

 

Oh does anyone know a good color match to my green?

I painted the eyebrows on my 850 with a color where the cap matched by the spray came out with metal flake.