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| posted on May 4th, 2007 at 06:05 PM |
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What colour should I paint the wheels?
Hi All,
I have a dilemma. My bare metal cookie cutters look crap. I don't want to fork out to have them polished becasue I've aleady got some nice polished
fuchs.
I race on these but they make the car look terrible.
I'm thinking of either painting black centres like porsche 944s but that may make the car look too dark an sinister. Or I could paint them bright
silver which is a good contrast to the body colour. Or I could go half way and paint the centres gunmetal grey.
I'll paint the centre caps too. I'm also thinking of painting right to the edge that's parallel to the tyre which will make the wheel look a bit
bigger than where the paint normally stops.
These are the stickers that will go on the car for the Dutton Rally.
Thoughts?
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| posted on May 4th, 2007 at 07:28 PM |
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Hmmm, sinister :thumb Love the full gloss black wheel look......no matter which way you go it'll turn heads CT.
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Craig Torrens
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| posted on May 4th, 2007 at 07:29 PM |
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Think out of the square.........................why not a colour that is used in your stickers, like the green or the blue or the red.
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1303Steve
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| posted on May 4th, 2007 at 08:47 PM |
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Hi CT
I like the VW factory wheel sliver, Power plus wheel silver is very close, also Nissan Diamond luster (silver) looks great.
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 08:30 AM |
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I was faced with same dilema. Polished Fuchs and original Fuchs had been done to death, and I wanted something different. I went with solid colour for
the whole wheel, it seemd easier to maintain.
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 08:33 AM |
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I like full gloss black....but then, i'm a little biased...
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 10:17 AM |
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im with craig...go outside the square and add soem major color to those wheels...green or red is what i'd suggest
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 10:28 AM |
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yeah im thinking of doing my sprinsters full gloss black too
or i agree with what craig said
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 01:57 PM |
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Black centres on cookie cutters looks great in my opinion.
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 04:16 PM |
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Here is a few options
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 06:46 PM |
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Do a blue option the same as the thrifty sign !
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| posted on May 5th, 2007 at 09:03 PM |
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or try black/silver center red edge....
[ Edited on 5-5-2007 by bugeyedbabe ]
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| posted on May 7th, 2007 at 01:01 PM |
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Great food for thought.
I like the coloured cookie cutter idea and was pondering it over the weekend. I especially liked the Thrifty blue idea. It reminded me of a white 1500
beetle with blue globes that ES Motors used to race.
In the end I decided against it because it makes the car look too much like a race car. In my mind its supposed to be a street car that can be raced
occasionally.
I like the black centre look. I ran the car around for a little while with black centred 16 inch fuchs and it was really German-look which was cool. I
don't think cookie cutters look as good becasue you can't see the details in the wheels.
I found a colour that is very similar to the body colour and I think the wheels turned out pretty good. I'll take a decent pic when I've fitted them
to the car.
Thanks all for your thoughts.
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| posted on May 14th, 2007 at 11:44 AM |
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good decision.
paint is extra weight and saps HP. :P
...ok, maybe I'm starting to get a bit anal. 
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