I sanded them for a couple days and i finally got them ready. There was about 7 layers of silver and red paint on them. It took forever but i got them down to the metal, i threw an epoxy primer on them and painted them to match the color of the car. They turned out alot darker than the paint on my car but I'm very happy with how they turned out. Still need to get 4 Caps and paint them, i think I'm going to order some "carbon fiber" stickers off Bavauto.com and put them on the caps after i paint them to match. Tell me what you think