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Old 04-23-2011, 06:52 PM
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These wheels started out being powdercoated white and quickly were taken apart, stripped, sanded, centers were professionally polished and my boyfriend and I did the lips. They are Fikse FM5s 17x9 front and 17x11 rear.

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and how they look on my car:




and I'll post some better pictures once the weather gets better here.

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Looks 100x better
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Wow... that's a huuuuuuge difference! They looked like absolute *** painted white.
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wow those look horrible! ship them to me and ill suffer instead of you






j/k looks great!
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Holy crap they looked terrible but after y'all cleaned em up, I now officially hate you, lol. But for real though, great looking ride and damn good looking rims when polished and obviously not white.
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Those look awesome. Much better than painted centers.
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Nice rims, but it looks like you could use some new rotors.
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My all time fav wheels....
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very aggressive stance. I like you picked the right width tire too
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Sweet.
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Some of the best wheels ever made for the FBody!!
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Wow why would anybody do that to those rims. They look 1000x's better now good work
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Fikse FM5's are sick...looks awesome!
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Looks so much better
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Awesome job!
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wow they look way better
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Looks awesome!
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Lowered WS6 on FM5s is the way to go!
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Great lookin car. Just perfect
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Really like the FM5's, maybe some day I'll ditch the boyds for them



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