By a big margin, paint, its the reason all manufacturers use high-solids clear coat paint on wheels. Even the penny-pinchers.
One could say the research and experimentation has been done for us.

 

Still looking for black wheels? I need the original silver ones or else ill get charged to replace them from my dealer.

 

Yes, I've sent IM.
Your black wheels still in good shape...?
Location?

 

Just FYI, If you need to ship wheels, look into shipping through Fastenal. Box them, tape them/shrink wrap to a small pallet and they have great store to store shipping rates, even across country. I've used them 2-3 times, saved a ton of money. And in each case there was a store near me to drop off and also near the other party to pick up at.

 

So how does it work? You essentially hand them 4 boxed wheels and tires and then what? They put them on a pallet and take it from there? Can I ask the shipping costs you've incurred in the past?

 

So my understanding is they have trucks constantly going between the stores, so they offer discounted rates for third party transport - they include it on trucks that have space. Here is a link: https://www.fastenal.com/en/22/3pl-t...arty-logistics

So get a quote for the approximate weight and size between the two stores, and then they give you an order number/lable and you can just drop it off at the closest fastenal location. They will want the goods on a pallet, I usually grab a pallet from a construction site or behind a store, one time I even found one next the the Fastenal's dumpster - go as small as you can - 24" x 48", then stack the wheels. I've found they are helpful at the stores and they wrapped the pallet for me. Last set of wheels and tires shipped 2/3 way across country was approximately $160. They will want you to estimate the weight, I went with 300lbs and they were cool with that.