Are Gold / Bronze Wheels Chavvy?
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Much prefer the bronze wheels to the black. Never quite understood black wheels, it hides all the details of the wheel design and get very dirty quickly. If you accidentally mark one, it shows up so badly too.
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I am in the camp of, it depends on the car colour. Slight bias as I had my RX8 wheels powder coated like this....
Actually really hard to get a good photo of as it depends on the light.
To me this offers all the visual confirmation required to say 'Yes, yes they are'
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I am in the camp of, it depends on the car colour. Slight bias as I had my RX8 wheels powder coated like this....
^This is a good example of a chav car.
The Green BMW in the first photo is fine.
To me this offers all the visual confirmation required to say 'Yes, yes they are'
Shame really. When we live in a world of diamond cut wheels and black on black styles.
It is interesting peoples perceptions of a chav car. Back when I was younger it was Corsas/Saxos, then it moved onto anything slightly lairy VXR's/ST's and now we have anything with artificial pops bangs and parps from an exhaust and the finance generation. At the end of the day its such a stupid term and used to just try and rip someones car choices, or even mod choices.
Yeah - small number of cars can pull it off - for the rest it just looks sad.
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For me it's whether the car suits the mods or not. For example you mentioned the saxos/corsas from back in the day, lots of them had massive bodykits stuck on and it looked ridiculous. If I see a 350z with a rocketbunny kit on however, I think it looks quite cool and suitable. There again taste is entirely subjective and the people who had those bodykits on their corsas/saxos probably loved them. I think the key to modifying a cars styling is to just do it for you because you'll rarely get a "normal" modified car that absolutely everyone loves.
You should be sent to prison for putting gold wheels on a Mazda 3 though, sorry
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I found this when I was looking to buy an octavia and I think it looks the nuts
https://www.hypermiler.co.uk/wp-con...da-Octavia-MK3-Estate-gold-wheels-768x383.jpg
https://www.hypermiler.co.uk/wp-con...da-Octavia-MK3-Estate-gold-wheels-768x383.jpg
For me it's whether the car suits the mods or not. For example you mentioned the saxos/corsas from back in the day, lots of them had massive bodykits stuck on and it looked ridiculous. If I see a 350z with a rocketbunny kit on however, I think it looks quite cool and suitable. There again taste is entirely subjective and the people who had those bodykits on their corsas/saxos probably loved them. I think the key to modifying a cars styling is to just do it for you because you'll rarely get a "normal" modified car that absolutely everyone loves.
You should be sent to prison for putting gold wheels on a Mazda 3 though, sorry
It's a good thing she now wears....
Looks much better like this
Meh, would look better with regular colour alloys IMO!
Be boring if we all liked the same thing though
I think its always been old hatchbacks with random wheels on to be fair
Let's be fair, modern hatchbacks wearing some OEM wheels have also been suspect at times
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I think bronze looks decent on some cars, mainly with darker paint I reckon. I've considered getting mine painted bronze before, and it might still happen one day (my car's black). Gold I'd steer clear of though, except for on the aforementioned Imprezas and Clio Williams.