Hi,
I finally got around to modding my wheel centers. I've been wanting to do this debadge/VX mod since I had my old '99 astral. I had a guy do my VX emblem design in silver vinyl. I then took off the wheels, the centers, and then tried removing the plastic Isuzu inserts... when I found that the plastic is VERY intolerant to brake cleaner! While lifting an edge of the round insert with a very small flathead screwdriver, I tried spraying brake cleaner behind the disk to soften the double-faced tape holding it to the wheel. Wow... I'm glad I wasn't wanting to keep the Isuzu inserts. They literally MELTED and disintegrated! Within about 60 secs. I had each center removed from the chrome centers... it was like shattered glass when done. A big mess..
Next step was sanding the center chrome with 150, priming, then painting with gloss black epoxy paint. The next day, I applied the VX decals, and WaLah! Here they are! What do you think?