lug nut painting question

[RacerE7773]

I wanted to get stainless steel cover lugnuts for our impala (have the center caps on it) but they cost too much. I decided when/if spring ever comes to paint the chrome lugnuts and just deal with touching up the paint every so often. My question is should I bother trying the "chrome" finish paint with clear, or just use gloss black which I already have plenty of?

I'm leaning towards the black.

 

[Michael_P]

Black all the way. Chrome will not really look like chrome. Sometimes at Big Lots or one of those liquidator places you can pick up stainless covered nuts cheap. I picked up a set of Gorilla lugs $5 for 20 a few years ago.

 

[RacerE7773]

I'll have to check. Thanks.

 

[JonnySaab]

Mine are rusted real bad, My Saab has wheel bolts, so finding nice shiney new ones cheap is impossible, but I have found some real nice black plastic head covers, they look good and are cheap. They have a little reoval tool too! Just an idea.

 

[RacerE7773]

Where from? I've gone bat(crazy) trying to find suitable/fitting ones for our car (03 impala). I relplaced the worn original lugnuts with chrome plated extended casing ones and the casing is what rusted really bad. If I can find proper covers I'd buy regular lugnuts like were on it originally.

 

[postjeeprcr]

I say paint them black