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Originally Posted by 1990C4S View Post
I am cleaning up my twenty year old Volvo rims. It's a lot of cleaning, sanding, priming, etc., but nothing terrible.

Until it comes to color...the 'silvers' seem so tacky (like fake chrome, the darker silver-greys seem way too dark. I'm 95% done, new rubber sitting here, ready to be installed, and I'm stuck.

Has anyone found a good quality paint that's a good rim color? Dupli-Color silver (so bright), and graphite (really dark) don't do it for me.


If you're dead set on getting them factory correct, most vehicles have a paint code for the rims. A data base at the paint store should have it.
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