Thanks for all the nice comments, gang! I'd hoped to slow down the gif, but it was my first attempt and I somehow failed to increase the delay....
Nice !! Are you going to rotate between the silver and white on a regular basis ?
Ha. To be honest, I currently have the white on one side and the silver on the other! I think I'll mostly run with the silver (more forgiving of dirt/chips) and keep the white for when I'm feeling all fancy and have just polished the car.
Here are mine in a gloss black. I wanted a metallic silver, but the body shop that I paid to do them messed up and they turned out this color. They still look good to me, otherwise I would have had them redo them.]
They DO look great. But how crazy to have the paint guy miss so badly? I've just always been a fan of big contrast between the wheel and tire. To me, a dark wheel just looks like it needs to be cleaned of brake dust.
These looks very good and Tesla should offer body-colored aero covers.
I assume if you are going to paint these, you will need to sand them some to get the paint to stick to them!
Yeah, the shiny plastic all needs to be roughed up. And take a tip from me: Don't try to remove the foil metal center caps. Just tape it off for the whole process and thank me later. It is *impossible* to get those caps off cleanly. I tried everything including heat to soften the glue. Well, the plastic covers get soft before the glue does!
OP, nice job on the wheel covers! How will you use them? Winter set and summer set?
And really cool with the triple photo rotation. Well done!
Thanks! the reason I have two colors is because I knew I wanted silver, and ran those for a while.... but sometimes the silvers reflect just right and look almost white. And it looked pretty good, so I had to give white a go. Definitely a different look! I'm not sure I'd want to paint-match like that on a red or blue car, but I know others have done it.
I still want to slow down the photo rotation, but at least it worked. Poor-man's photoshop... doing it for real and taking pictures from a tripod.
