A photo of your car with black rims and a lower stance, or with a full kit: front lip, side skirts, bronze wheels, tinted windows. Drift shown. Workflow visible here.
Real workflow: a small dark blue city car with silver hubcaps, parked along a wet kerb, then the same car on matte black wheels, slightly lowered, and with a full kit: black front lip and side skirts, bronze wheels, tinted side windows. The roof spoiler barely shows from this angle, and the framing got a little wider in both renders.
At a glance
Seeing your own car with different rims, lower, or with a body kit, from a single photo: the format had its moment. The videosi.io tracker marks it "Past its peak", dated 12 March 2026, and viralvideoai.app put it back among its new effects in late October under the name "AI Car Edit". We have no audience figures. The trend has passed, but the question before paying for rims hasn't changed: what will my car look like with them? This workflow makes two previews. A wheel change with a slightly lower ride height, and a full kit.
The model, Nano Banana 2.1, keeps the demo car's colour, its worn paint, the bumper scratches, the street and the low angle. The matte black wheels and the front lip look believable. It doesn't get everything: the lowering in the first render is slight, the kit's roof spoiler barely shows from this angle, a small marking appears on the bronze wheels' centre caps, and the framing widens a little in both images. The picture helps you pick a style. For bolt pattern, offset and diameter, you need a professional.
The colour doesn't change here. To try another paint colour or a wrap, use the car colour changer. For a clean sales photo, it's the listing photo, and for the car in string lights, Christmas car lights. If it's the shelter you're thinking about, see the carport. Both renders cost 14 credits, see pricing.
These are the files of the workflow above, exactly as the models produced them, unretouched. The starting point is shown when there is one.
Starting point
Render
Drivers weighing up new rims, lowering their car or fitting a body kit who want to see the result on their own car first, and enthusiasts preparing a project to show a garage or a forum.
A daylight photo of your car from the front three-quarter, with the whole car in the frame and the wheels clearly visible, plus a description of the car and the parts you want in the prompt (rim size, colour and design, lowering, kit parts). The photo is optional.
Photograph the car from the front three-quarter
In daylight, the whole car in the frame, the wheels clearly visible. Crouch a little: in the demo, the low view shows the wheels and the gap between tyre and arch well. The back of the roof, on the other hand, is hard to see from there.
Describe your car in the prompts
The prompts mention a dark blue three-door, silver hubcaps and bumper scratches. Swap in your model, its colour, its original wheels and whatever sets it apart, or the model may carry over details from the demo.
Write down the parts you want
Rim size, colour and design, how much lower, which kit parts: it all goes in the prompt. Run the rims alone, the kit alone, or both for 14 credits.
Compare with the original photo
Check the colour, the plate, the framing and every part you asked for. In the demo, the kit's spoiler barely shows. If a part matters to you, spell it out and rerun only that node for 7 credits.
The same canvas, tuned for different needs: each variation is two or three lines of prompt away.
The rims render only touches the wheels and the ride height: it's the closest to a first purchase. The kit changes the look of the whole car, with the front lip, the side skirts and the tinted windows, which can mean several purchases.
Change the size, colour and design in the prompt, for example "16 inch silver five-spoke" or "18 inch gloss black". Add the tyre size if you know it. Not tested in the demo.
Remove the wheels from the prompt and keep the line about the suspension. In the demo, the four centimetres requested gave a slight drop: describe the gap you want instead, "the tyre almost touching the arch". Not tested.
For a roof or boot spoiler, start from a rear three-quarter photo and describe the part. In the demo, shot low from the front three-quarter, the spoiler is a faint shape at the end of the roof. This version hasn't been tested.
For an older car, ask for wheels from its era, for example "painted steel wheels with chrome hub caps", and keep the line "do not make the car newer" so it doesn't lose ten years. Not tested.
Remove "and dark tinted side windows" from the kit prompt if you don't plan to fit them, or limit them to the rear windows. In the demo, the door window is tinted, and in France tinted front windows are restricted.
Switch the node to Nano Banana Pro for a larger image, where fine details like the spoke design should hold up better. It costs more per render and hasn't been tested on this demo, which runs on Nano Banana 2.1.
The model draws wheels that look right, with no idea of the bolt pattern, offset or diameter your car takes. Have a professional check your choice before you pay.
Wheels turned, the car half hidden behind another one, a shot from above: if the model can't see the wheel and the arch clearly, it makes up where the tyre sits, and the lowering becomes impossible to judge.
Lowering and window tint are regulated by law, with rules that vary by country, and in France tinted front windows are restricted. A modification can also affect your insurance and your roadworthiness test: check before you book the garage.
It's optional. Without one, the model invents a car from the prompt. With yours, it keeps the shape, the colour and the setting, which is the whole point: seeing the parts on your own car.
You can. Here, both prompts are ready and wired to the same photo, and the demo shows up front what the model keeps of the car and what it misses, like the spoiler you can hardly see.
No. Both prompts ask for the same colour and the same paint with its wear, and the demo keeps them. To change the colour or try a wrap, use the car colour changer.
14 credits, 7 per render on Nano Banana 2.1 in 1K. Rerunning a single image costs 7 credits. Both demo renders were kept on the first try.
1200 x 896 pixels, in 4:3. That's enough to compare on screen, send to a garage or post on a forum, not for a large print.
The photo is taken low, from the front three-quarter: the back of the roof is almost out of view. The model put a small dark shape at the end of the roof, and that's all you see of it. To judge a spoiler, start from a photo of the back.
There's no way to check on a picture. In the rims render, the gap between tyre and arch got smaller, but some space is still visible: the drop is slight. In the kit, which asks for five, the car sits clearly lower.
The prompt rules out any badge or logo, but the model added a small marking on the centre caps. Add "plain centre caps, no marking at all" and rerun the node if it bothers you.
videosi.io marks "AI Car Designer" as "Past its peak", dated 12 March 2026, and viralvideoai.app listed "AI Car Edit" among its new effects in late October. The peak is behind us, but before buying rims, people still want to see them on their own car. Imaginode has no connection with these sites or with any wheel brand.
AI car tuning simulator: rims and a body kit on your car photo
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Nano Banana 2.1
Flux Kontext
Seedream 5 Pro