painted hub caps

Ive got a 1990 LX and Ive been thinking about fixing it up a bit as far as the exterior goes. Ive done all the body work myself and fixed the rust spost under the doors, so the necessities are done, now I just want to make it look good. Ive heard of people taking the hub caps off of their stock rims and sanding and painting them (black mostly). Has anyone done this? Does it look good? Does anyone have pictures?

Thanks

The best thing is to make the hub caps match the bodys paint. Except for some like me, i have a 95 thats silver-along with black headlight covers, so if i paint my hub caps black, it would match the headlight covers..

I didn't do this cause i really didn't like what it looked like. I painted one, clear coated it etc, popped it on, it just looked cheap. I did a good job, but it looked "wrong".

If anything, remove all the weatherstripping, and paint that along with clear coating it ALOT. I'm guessing yours is faded bigtime. My stripping was horrible, so i did a good job, really good actually, and it looks great.

BTW, i had to strip the paint/clear off my ONE hubcap with a razor......sucked..... Polished all 4 hubs, and i thing it looks great. I'd rather have 4 nicely polished hubs than painted.

IMHO, painted center caps look ghetto.

lol flewthecoupe.

depends on how you paint them. If you are talking about HUB caps, and not CENTER caps, then its more acceptable to paint them another color... but not really good looking. If your center caps are looking faded, and they dont match the luster of your rims anymore, which was my problem, pull em off, and paint them the same color as your wheels. I did that because my center caps looked yellowish while my rims were shiny silver.

yea, i did mean center caps, but i wasnt sure what youd call them lol