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Apologies for the rubbish phone pic, but I'm going to get the wheels refurbed, and wondered would going for a graphite or darker colour be sinful, considering all of the car is original?
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 Jambon
Newbie  Location: Welwyn Garden City Registered: 15 Jun 2013 Posts: 2 Status: Offline |
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 Posted 12th Jul 2013 at 23:04
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Chris28190
Senior User  Location: . Registered: 15 Apr 2012 Posts: 736 Status: Offline |
Post #2
Dark  ________________________________________ Cherry Rallye '99 - Sold |
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Posted 12th Jul 2013 at 23:13
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bigbadbowen
Seasoned Pro  Location: Winchester Registered: 21 Nov 2003 Posts: 13,753 Status: Offline |
Post #3
Darker colour is cheaper when getting a refurb as silver is awkward and needs a clear top coat  also if you have darker wheels you need (IMO) black mask headlights remove the fogs and lower the old girl all round |
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Posted 12th Jul 2013 at 23:39
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craig-gti6
Regular  Location: kidderminster Registered: 01 Jul 2012 Posts: 205 Status: Offline |
Post #4
As above, also paint the callipers yellow |
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Posted 12th Jul 2013 at 23:56
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rallyeash
Seasoned Pro  Location: Devizes Registered: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 4,424 Status: Offline |
Post #5
Black on black FTW!________________________________________ 230 hp 2.1 16v XU 205 rallye on jenveys Project thread here309 3dr K20 Type R |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 01:42
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AndyJ
Seasoned Pro  Location: Birmingham Registered: 09 Apr 2005 Posts: 5,894 Status: Offline |
Post #6
bigbadbowen wrote: Darker colour is cheaper when getting a refurb as silver is awkward and needs a clear top coat also if you have darker wheels you need (IMO) black mask headlights remove the fogs and lower the old girl all round Really? I've painted for years, and clear-coat every colour wheels I paint, regardless of how light/dark. ________________________________________ For we are many.PS£ ID: Monkey369 |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 06:14
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beez_neez_gt
Seasoned Pro  Location: @ de limit of adhesion ! Registered: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 2,916 Status: Offline |
Post #7
Ner dark car light wheels and vice versa, so it doesn't look like a black dark blob and stands out having good contrast, dark wheels with dark cars just look s**te imo.________________________________________ Pug fee`ver,Pick a Bogey, buy a Pug. Black 306 GTI 6 Standard, was 60k mileage, bargain!! Clicky: [url =http://www.306gti6.com]click here[/url] remove the space between [url & = |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 13:59
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24seven
Seasoned Pro  Location: Derby Registered: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 6,221 Status: Offline |
Post #8
^^ What he said, although I'd go one further and say 9 times out of 10 dark wheels look awful whatever colour the car is. There's already a big black circle around the rim, so the colour of the metal needs to contrast that. Another thing I find is that OEM wheels always seem to look worse if they're not the original colour. ________________________________________ Ph1 306 GTi 6 | RX8 231 S1 | YBR 125 Cafe Racer | MT-03 660 |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 18:21
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Jambon
Newbie Location: Welwyn Garden City Registered: 15 Jun 2013 Posts: 2 Status: Offline |
Post #9
Cheers everyone, from not owning the car long and quickly browsing the forum, I got the impression a lot of people mod their cars as opposed to restore them. Good to see some people saying keep them og as the car is all standard and a true unmolested example. I'm tempted to keep them silver as that means it is all stock and with black wheels I think it might looks odd without being lowered. Thanks again guys. |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 20:29
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JWP EFi
Turbo Legend!  Location: edinburgh Registered: 07 Mar 2010 Posts: 2,163 Status: Offline |
Post #10
24seven wrote: ^^ What he said, although I'd go one further and say 9 times out of 10 dark wheels look awful whatever colour the car is. There's already a big black circle around the rim, so the colour of the metal needs to contrast that. Another thing I find is that OEM wheels always seem to look worse if they're not the original colour. i couldn't have put it better, especially on a black car Anthracite would be ok in my book though, no darker. |
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Posted 13th Jul 2013 at 21:54
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