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You need an orange windscreen tint and full 90% on all the windows.
Top it off with a badly spaced 4D plate.
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Currently on holiday at Lake Garda and done about 1000miles here, avoided the Mt Blanc tunnel queues and went over the Simplon pass from Switzerland into Italy. Amazing roads and did manage to stop for pictures.
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You're going a bit
I'm not keen on tints and I'm happy with the number plate but thanks for the suggestions. Next step is to replace the rear diffuser which is OK at the moment but I'd prefer a black one over the grey one that's currently there.
My 2009 VXR8.
I'm usually a silver wheels man, I bought this with them already black. Not convinced silver suits this though, perhaps an anthracite of some kind.
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I'm usually a silver wheels man, I bought this with them already black. Not convinced silver suits this though, perhaps an anthracite of some kind.
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You don't see thes very much at all! Love the front end, very mean!
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Gave mine a clean after a few weeks of our terrible weather! Changed the horrid orange reflectors out for some cleaner clear ones. And I'm happy with it now
I normally hate black wheels, but honestly I don't think any other colour would look right on something so mean looking
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Gunmetal or shadow chrome would work, but all black suits it too.
Awesome!
IMO Black wheels are sometimes OK when the car is black on black and when the wheels don't have a tremendously detailed design. This is a perfect example. It looks good to me!
You missed mine
To be fair I'm not gone on my set with black wheels, even if I go full "murdered out" the style isn't right - but they were nearly £300 off on a Black Friday deal and used on a set of wheels/tyres used mainly for off-road/dead of winter.
Black wheels are really hard to get right - a car done like Phil's really needs them but the style and shade/tone has to work with the rest - unfortunately I don't have a good picture of it, this was just taken from another photo showing something else, but like a car my brother had for awhile:
It only looked right on black wheels.
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Don’t worry you wouldn’t see the white one longe enough to be sick 
Don’t worry you wouldn’t see the white one longe enough to be sick
Is that because it causes people to go full Raiders and have their eyes melt?
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They're not though - at least, not any more in the context of newer cars. It is becoming increasingly rare to find a new car offered with silver painted wheels now. Even your car was never offered with silver wheels - all of the 5 Series M Sport wheel options from 2017 onwards were either black or two-colour (Of which one of the colours was either black or a dark grey). There were no painted silver options at all, the closest you could get was the diamond cut face on some of the options.
Silver wheels work because silver is a light colour that allows you to see all of the detail of the wheel really easily and a good wheel is about detail. Black works on other areas of the car, particularly as the main paint colour or as trim around windows and doors but as soon as you paint the wheels black you lose most of the detail of the wheel - it is often difficult to tell what wheel style a car has fitted if they've been painted black.
As well as this, 95% of people don't obsessively look after their cars so quite quickly a black wheel is surrounded by, and highlights, a brown tyre and kerb damage is all the more obvious.
It's clearly an increasing trend and it's obvious that those of us who don't like them are in the minority - my recent car search was made much more difficult by the fact the majority of the cars were optioned with black wheels - but they really don't look very good and cheapen the look of every car they are fitted to. Unfortunately I think your 5 Series is a particular example of this.
In summary, I'd probably flip your point around. It's black wheels that I can't understand and that appear to be more and more common and fitted to everything now.
It's not like black is the only option for those who don't want silver. My car doesn't have silver wheels either...
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