Black center caps on 1st gen silver alloys

Does anyone have black or other colors on the original tundra alloys? My center caps are faded and chipped and figure I can’t match the color.

pics please. Or color matched option? I have these.

 

A couple of people on here have done theirs in black. One person refinished with (IIRC) Duplicolor's "wheel refinish" in silver, very recently. @N84434 also refinished his with silver metallic and Duplicolor clear. PHM used Duplicolor Aluminum wheel paint. There's quite a few threads about it on here.

 

Dont try to match, paint the wheels & center caps fresh. A little more prep goes a long way.

 

Oh, and all-black too, which I think looks like ass, but I've also been around long enough I remember when black wheels were used exclusively for trailers, spares, and were also on every basic bone-stock no-option base model vehicle. I'll never understand why it's so popular, but it works... sometimes. I don't think what I'm about to link works, but everyone has their own style.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/opinions-on-blacking-out-my-truck.112037/#post-2890889

Another sample: https://www.tundras.com/threads/opinions-on-blacking-out-my-truck.112037/#post-2894512

 

shifty` disapproves.

Getcha some of that darker metallic silver the '17's came in on sequoias.

 

FYI: Dupli-Color EBTY16027 "Toyota Lunar Mist Metallic" was an exact match for the center caps on my 2001 5-spoke/star wheels (like the OP posted).

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00407RRGY?ie=UTF8&th=1

 

Professional Hand Model painted his center caps black iirc. Not sure if his build thread is still around.

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/the...vestment-‘build’-a-chronological-story.46816/

 

I found a chrome shop that'll copper plate mine, but not the centercaps, so i'll have to make a decision then...

 

Also check junkyards near you. I have the same wheels as you with the same ugly-azz peeling center caps. I was looking for a matched wheel for my spare to do a 5-tire rotation, and the one I got had a perfect center cap on it. The others were gone but it might be worth a shot if you don't want to repaint like @AnnDee4444 above recommends.

 

May have painted black but can’t find post when searching his thread for black. He did paint them in 2020 silver !



Yep, searching banned accts suck

 

https://www.tundras.com/threads/the-professional-hand-model-reinvestment-‘build’-a-chronological-story.46816/page-3#post-1500015

 

I repainted my wheels and caps in March, using DupliColor Acrylic Lacquer Silver and Acrylic Lacquer Clear. I did lots of prep work and they came out fantastic. I was considering painting them a different color, possibly a very dark gray, but I'm very happy that I went with a stock-like finish. This is my own opinion, but I think it's very hard to make these trucks look good with black wheels, and having the bright silver finished wheels like OEM really make it look like a brand new truck.

You can read more on my thread here: https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-7

Let me know if you end up going this route- I can offer plenty more advice on how to get the prep/paint perfect with this DupliColor stuff.

 

Just fixing that link for you: https://www.tundras.com/threads/2000-limited-trd-refresh-repair-story.116395/page-7#post-3124124

Repaint work starts with that reply, and rolls into the one immediately after. And yours was the exact reply I was looking for earlier. I knew someone posted recently about the refinishing wheels, but I couldn't find the damn reply.