What colour wheels? refurb

Simon · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:21

My wheels have corroded where the polished rim has been chipped, letting water under the laquer. Probably due to my crap car washing in the past (once every 6 weeks). I have now moved house and have a garage a private parking to wash the car, so i intend to look after them and give the car some TLC.

I want to get them powder coated in something like anthracite and then maybe get some rim tape / dont think ill go for the polished rim again. Any ideas on colour?

Anyway these are the wheels just after fitting them, Rota Grids with the cut polished rim. 2.5yrs later they are a mess

If anyone fancies doing some PS that would be great.

Cheers

BloomerzUK · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:25

Keep it black. It suits the car. If not, white

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Simon · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:27

BloomerzUK said:
Keep it black. It suits the car. If not, white .

Current wheels are anthracite. No way am i going for white - too many colours.

GeForce · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:27

BloomerzUK said:
Keep it black. It suits the car.

I agree with this.

GT3 · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:53

Powdercoated gunmetal all over. Hard wearing, low maintinence and will still look good.

Clarkey · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:57

ditch them in favour of stock facelift wheels tbh

Simon · 30 Mar 2009 at 19:58

Clarkey said:
ditch them in favour of stock facelift wheels tbh

Which facelift?

Clarkey · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:26

The first one, AP2 right? They changed the wheels again after that for some slightly uglier ones didn't they?

Fido McNasty · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:37

Same again imho. They look nice.

Bear · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:54

I agree, they look great as they are.

lordrobs · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:54

Same again without the polished lip IMO.

If you have to have a change I'd go for a dark bronze colour :cool:

loltim · 30 Mar 2009 at 20:55

Bear said:
I agree, they look great as they are.

yup.

GreenMint · 30 Mar 2009 at 22:23

Suits is perfectly as is!

Hilly · 30 Mar 2009 at 22:24

No rim tape... just no. Keep them black

Dup · 30 Mar 2009 at 22:27

Bronze would look nice, like the Rota Torques.

Sime · 30 Mar 2009 at 23:52

Looks great as is! and im not a black alloys fan so well done!

Turbo-G · 31 Mar 2009 at 00:15

Sime said:
Looks great as is! and im not a black alloys fan so well done!

Probably because they are not black, they are gunmetal

Looking good Si. As I said before, my vote would be to get them powder coated Anthracite or a dark silver. Still have a nice contrast against the body colour then.

One colour may work better too as TE37's never had a polished lip. If you do get the lip surface polished up though, don't clear coat.... much easier to maintain with a tube of Autosol :cool:

Lord-Jaffa · 31 Mar 2009 at 03:19

04 facelift wheels? Nicest ones imo.

Im considering getting mine done by pristine alloy wheels soon, might change them to black if thats possible, although unsure how it would look on my Nurburgring blue.

Simon · 1 Apr 2009 at 13:47

Anyone got any recommend refurb places around Reading?

Cheers

Lord-Jaffa · 1 Apr 2009 at 16:14

Pristinealloywheels.co.uk do a service where they loan you a set of wheels while your old ones are sent off to be refurbed, by all accounts their workmanship is excellent as well.