Dougpaper

They are silver, I have black on my car, still in box my friend had his wheels changed out as soon as the car hit the dealership. In box's and wrapped as new never turned a street mile. I would rather sell but if anybody has advice on how I can have them painted black without chipping that would help also.

thanks

Thompyt

wooddoc2011

Whatever you do i would strongly recommend against powder coating. I did that to mine and 2 months later I've been through 2 redos and now on a third shop to figure out why they are now vibrating at high speeds after coating. I'm sure others have had smooth experiences but for 5-600 to powder coat just spend an extra 1500 and get new rims. My 2c.

atljar

Sorry, but powder coating isnt causing your vibration. Almost certainly its a poor balance or poor roadforce job.

wooddoc2011

Actually,

It is. I assumed as you did that the balance was to blame. However, Zero problems and then powder coated and vibration began and persisted even after 3 Hunter road force balances by 3 separate shops. If you look into forums it is a not so uncommon problem. The hub can be powder coated wrong and not sit flush. In my case it's the inner rim that was coated thick and causing the rim to slip on the tire, another possible complication of powder coating. So, even after balanced and corrected it slides and becomes unbalanced.

My point is i thought i did my homework and after powder coating my car has been driving like **** for over a month to figure it out, including hundreds of dollars extra to figure it out. Not worth it even the slightest imho.

3 Z06ZR1

Actually sounds like your powder coating shop needs a clue! At least 4 or more sets and never any trouble but they should not coat the inside of the hub.

Mikec7z

wheels on these cars get bent easily, so easily, that i bet you might have bent one on the way to or from the powder coat shop... ive bent all 4 of mine recently.

atljar

Ya something else is up. Literally, I've had thousands (no exaggeration) of wheels powder coated though work. All BMW wheels which are hub centric as well.

Powder coating doesn't cause vibration / balance issues in itself

wooddoc2011

well, i certainly agree. It was done very wrong but it was the powder coating process to blame. If this place jacked it up I'm willing to bet there are other shops that may not do it correctly either....

Stingcan

Where are you located. I am interested but I am in Canada so unless you can ship to Niagara Falls, New York where I can pick up or to Canada

wooddoc2011

well took it to a reputable Tire specialist shop today and they took off the back tires from the rims and they found a ton of what they're calling Fix-A-Flat sealant goo on the inside that they had to scrape out and apparently they think that is what was causing the wheels to become unbalanced and vibrate. I know these Corvette Wheels can be tough to reseal on the tire so I'm assuming the people that remounted the tires originally didn't know what they were doing and use this Google as a substitute to try and get the tire to inflate after the job was done.

atljar

Cool. That sounds reasonable. Let us know how it turns out. I didn't mean to sound harsh above, but every day I see and hear the same things from customers ... "my car shakes, I've had 5 different shops balance the tires". Then, when I diag the issue as a balance problem, they argue with me. I balance (correctly) and suddenly I'm the genius and have won a life long customer. Balancing isn't hard, but there's most certainly a right and wrong way to do it and most shops don't charge enough or care enough to do it correctly

Dougpaper

similar story, I have a audi S8 with 21" stock rims and tires, had a slow leak and didn't realize the tires were noise suppressing? anyways a large can of goop split between all 4 made it ride like a cartoon car, didn't realize the tires are lined with Foam inside and the tire sealant just spread unevenly thruout. No way to fix the tires but the company that makes the goop did cover half of my replacement on the 21" audi size and believe me not a lot of choices out there. Hard lesson

Connman

Where are you? How much? Pics?

Dougpaper

Pittsburgh, just look at any 2017 z06 with silver rims, $1000