What wheel colour, with pics..

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What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by coldo » Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:06 pm

As title...

Wheels need redone, do the anthracite wheels work on sprint blue with chrome left in tact? Or should i just get them finished in silver?

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by thedoluk » Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:29 pm

Silver unless you do mirrors to match. Titan looks better with optics imho. I'd stick with silver.
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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by RS4-AL » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:14 pm

thedoluk wrote:Silver unless you do mirrors to match. Titan looks better with optics imho. I'd stick with silver.
+1

If you convert to black optics then titan wheels would look good, otherwise IMO the wheels may look a bit mis-matched to the rest of the car.
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Post by Outtlaw » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:18 pm

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Post by scaghead » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:23 pm

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Post by rs4Mav » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:47 pm

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by Wallachie » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:52 pm

Sprint Blue needs to be with silver accents IMHO.

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Post by daveh » Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:23 pm

Just had mine (sprint blue) refurbed and have gone back to silver from anthracite and it looks so much better. Easy decision.

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by surfpunkian » Thu Oct 10, 2013 8:27 pm

I've just anthracited my wheels and I'm certain the chrome needs blacking out on my Daytona. Wheels look great but chrome, especially window trim contrasts to much IMO. After failing to find anyone who'll wrap it I'm going down the paint route.
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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by MikeFish » Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:56 pm

I think the sprint blue with black optics and black wheels looks awesome!!!

But if you are not going down the black optics route then I think I have to agree with the majority and say stick with silver.

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by coldo » Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:48 pm

Unanimous decision then! :lol:

I think black optics on a sprint blue car 'cheapens' it a bit... so i think they will stay silver!

daveh wrote:Just had mine (sprint blue) refurbed and have gone back to silver from anthracite and it looks so much better. Easy decision.

Have you got any pics from when they were anthracite? Out of interest!
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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by kay » Fri Oct 11, 2013 1:37 am

I've got both colours on my sprint blue!!!
Let me explain.
Mine have been refurbed via powder coating, so not exactly oem colour, less shinier, less "silveryish" maybe.
When washed, I've got the silver look. But they go anthracite very quickly with only a little bit of dirt, so first half of week they look silver, 2nd half or towards the end of week they look anthracite. And I kinda like that I can get both looks. But having said that, the chrome around the car makes the anthracite look out of place a little, but to the joe public they won't notice the "out of placeness" of it. The anthracite look does give a slightly more aggressive look compared to silver.
But stick with silver oem, looks perfect with the chrome around the car.
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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by edge » Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:57 am

Silver all day....

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by daveh » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:22 am

coldo wrote:Unanimous decision then! :lol:

I think black optics on a sprint blue car 'cheapens' it a bit... so i think they will stay silver!

daveh wrote:Just had mine (sprint blue) refurbed and have gone back to silver from anthracite and it looks so much better. Easy decision.

Have you got any pics from when they were anthracite? Out of interest!
Well it's pretty much the same as in your pic! I'll post tonight as pics are on laptop. I've got tints on windows and black tipped miltek so they went better with those, but silver looks even better imo (and everyone roses so it seems!)

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Re: What wheel colour, with pics..

Post by MikeFish » Fri Oct 11, 2013 11:37 am

kay wrote:I've got both colours on my sprint blue!!!
Let me explain.
Mine have been refurbed via powder coating, so not exactly oem colour, less shinier, less "silveryish" maybe.
When washed, I've got the silver look. But they go anthracite very quickly with only a little bit of dirt, so first half of week they look silver, 2nd half or towards the end of week they look anthracite. And I kinda like that I can get both looks. But having said that, the chrome around the car makes the anthracite look out of place a little, but to the joe public they won't notice the "out of placeness" of it. The anthracite look does give a slightly more aggressive look compared to silver.
But stick with silver oem, looks perfect with the chrome around the car.
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