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Should I paint my wheels red?

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:51 pm
by nuttinnew
After fitting the mk5 rear lights I think red works well with the Apricot so I'm pondering refurbing a spare set of wheels in red a la Porsche RS. What do you think and why?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:17 am
by Speedlaw
I voted black.

Apricot is yellowish, right? Red only works with white IMHO. Black works with more colors, but it's still not as easy as silver.

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:04 pm
by bstardchild
I voted black - but then I would :shock:

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:58 pm
by cruisin_chris
definetly black or could do a metal flake effect, black with red metal specs through it, could be neat! 8)

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:07 pm
by nuttinnew
I did put 'white' on there as well...wonder where it's gone? :?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:01 pm
by cruisin_chris
see like this mate, only red metal flake over black, this is a subaru from over here in ireland, we a little crazy with modified cars! :lol: 8)

Image

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:22 pm
by Si_GTi
I've seen that Impreza in a few magazines - whilst not quite to my tastes its still an awesome stunning car 8)

I voted black, I'm with Alex on this one - red wheels might be OK with white a la Porsche GT3 RS you mentioned. So its either black or clean and tidy silver (chrome if you want to burn money!).

Cheers

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:37 pm
by cruisin_chris
yea sean has had few features in the english mags, had 1 myself with my last car! go for black though, 8)

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 1:30 am
by Tahrey1043
i think you need to follow The Cat's advice on this one -- but i cant remember what it was :D

(he was bleeding on his apricot suit one time however)

think it's got a better chance of working than black with that body colour IMO - but a light blue like that fading in from the edges on that pic would be better. sky blue and amber-ish colours go together right nice, and it would be pretty unique.

get the dulux colour match tester cards out first though, to be sure

Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 8:31 am
by carmadaaron
b different red 8)