I threw in the towel on trying to find red mirror caps!!!

I went ahead and painted them myself!!!

I must say, it came out WAY better than I thought it would, and was way easier too.

380 grit sand, white primer, 380 grit sand, 3 coats color, 3 coats clear, 1000 grit wet sand.... $$$$$$$$$$$$ !

The color is Krylon Banner red from Kragen. It matches MINI chili red damn good.

BTW... The wife hates it. She thinks this is bad... wait until I paint them neon yellow patterned after my favorite AMG DTM car!

She thinks she wont be seen it now......

I cant believe how well my plan is coming along for making the MINI "my daily driver"...

 

Looks awsome. I was thinking about doing something similar to mine.

 

looks like you did a pretty good job

 

Looks pretty good. Not my color choice for that car, but you did a nice job and I have to admire your dedication to your goal.

So, brake calipers next ?

And I hate to sound negative, but what's with the wheels and tires ? They're so glossy, they appear as if made of plastic.

 

Now go buy those Volk wheels witht the red lip that PGT is selling and maybe do a stud conversion and use some red lugs. If you really want to get crazy, go with some new black bonnet stripes with red pinstripe borders. Nice job!

 

I always love a little splash of red on a ps Mini

 

Nice job...I had mine painted a BMW red in 2003...sold it to a friend who now has it on his Indy Blue Mini...

 

that looks pretty clean i like that look...nice job man and i wud def say paint those calipers red and add a splash of red to those wheels center caps and ur moneyyy!!!

 

Those look pretty awesome! I have been thinking about something unique like that on my PW/B

 

For as weird as I think contrasting mirror caps look, that looks pretty effin' cool.

Zip

 

Is he really selling them? I thought he just got those. I have to shoot that boy an email and see what is going on. I swear, he is such a wheel ****

 

OK, Just read the feel thread, that is some funny stuff.

If you can afford them, get those Volk TA's...those are the hotness!!!

 

Red is your friend on a silver colored car, i dont know why your wife doesnt like it, all of us here think that red is money

 

Looks sick. Like others said, get those Volks if you can.. If not, a red pinstripe painted on the edge of the TDR's. Maybe red caliper paint. However, please stay away from the red pinstriping on the stripes... LOL... Nice job

 

Looks great motonikki!

My apologies for not responding to your pm awhile back about the red caps! I plain forgot! :headslap:

This thread just jogged my memory...

 

Thanks for the props everybody!

The brake calipers are Bright red... It is just hard to see in the shadowed picture.

I like the Volks... But for the $$$$$, I love the TDR's. Even if $$$$ wasnt a factor I would still love the TDR's. They have always been one of my favorite wheels. Plus my wife just bought them for me....

MSFITOY thanks for the . I must say, ever since I even considered buying a MINI and got introduced to NAM (about 3 years)..... Your car has been by far my hands down favorite MINI in the entire World!!!! I waited months to find a silver one in hopes that someday it could look like yours. It is perfect. I will probably never match the performance of yours.... But I can be a MSFITOY poser!!!
FWIW... when your car had the M theme going on, it was the Hottest! I still have that picture of it in front of the fall trees as my desktop. Titled: Dream MINI....

Ahhhhh..... someday......

 

I really think you should outline the edge/lip of the wheels in red. Here's really quick photoshops of some of your pics so you get an idea.

 

OOOHHHHHHH..... That is sick!!!!!

I love the red on the wheels....

The other thing that looks really cool is when you just do the TDR motorsport impressioned writing in red. A guy in Ventura around here has that on his CR with black TDR wheels MINI. It looks really good.

BTW, the wheels and tires look so shiny due to the car just being washed with a fresh coat of NXT wax on the wheels and NXT tire shine on the tires. It only stays like that for a couple hours. It looks pretty fresh though while its on...

Thanks for the photoshop work... Another thing to keep my up at night...

 

Perfect.ion.

 

Glad you all like the idea and the photoshops. Go for it!

 

Looks great!

 

really does look great, i may paint mine too

 

The red on the wheels would look amazing. Especially if it matched the mirror color.