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What colour wheels?

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What colour wheels?

Post by Goonerdad » Fri Oct 21, 2011 4:55 pm

Hi,

I have a facelift 4.4i in sterling grey metallic with 'normal' wheels - am thinking about colouring them? What do you think? What colour?

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by robo » Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:13 pm

i have the same thoght about a few shades darker but would like some opinions too

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by Goonerdad » Fri Oct 21, 2011 7:29 pm

A mate has said shiny silver (!) but not too sure I am a shiny silver type of guy!!!! Or shiny graphite grey?
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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by roger482 » Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:47 pm

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Here are my wheels, they look nice as long as they are clean.

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by Goonerdad » Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:03 pm

Nice - I like them? What colour would I ask for?

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by roger482 » Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:00 pm

Apparantly they are the same colour as a Lotus Evora, I will have to dig out the Invoice to find the exact name.

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by Goonerdad » Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:52 pm

If you could find time to do that, that would be great mate...................
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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by Goonerdad » Mon Oct 24, 2011 3:18 pm

I'm guessing by the lack of responses people dont usually colour their X5 wheels?
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What colour wheels?

Post by JimmySpeed » Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:19 pm

[quote=""Goonerdad""]I'm guessing by the lack of responses people dont usually colour their X5 wheels?[/quote]

Many don't. I went gloss black as silver on silver was a bit too boring for my liking.

I think wheel colour is like car colour, there's a load of choices you just need to see some examples to know whether it works on the X5 or not…

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What colour wheels?

Post by kkodal78 » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:53 pm

I have a black X5 so i am happy with the silver wheels
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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by shadrack » Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:55 pm

i have my 168s in silver and my winter 22s are gloss black, they look mean but not to everyones taste i did them black as they were chrome them over the 2 years they were on my other x5 the chrome decided it wanted to divorce from the rims!! coloured rims are entirely up to you, :thumbsup: some may slate them but its each to their own like car colour or mods, go with what you like!
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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by roger482 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:17 am

I will have to give them a call, the invoice does not state the colour.

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Re: What colour wheels?

Post by x555 » Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:56 am

[quote=""mobilejo""][quote=""Goonerdad""]I'm guessing by the lack of responses people dont usually colour their X5 wheels?[/quote]

Many don't. I went gloss black as silver on silver was a bit too boring for my liking.

I think wheel colour is like car colour, there's a load of choices you just need to see some examples to know whether it works on the X5 or not…[/quote]

I'm not against any modding as you will see from my threads :D that's what it's all about 'personal preference to suit your wants/needs'
But surely there is only a limited number of colours you could do to these wheels!!!! Black,grey/graphite ....i would like to see other colours and be proved wrong mind :thumbsup:

I still think this is the way......

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What colour wheels?

Post by JimmySpeed » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:56 am

[quote=""x555""][quote=""mobilejo""][quote=""Goonerdad""]I'm guessing by the lack of responses people dont usually colour their X5 wheels?[/quote]

Many don't. I went gloss black as silver on silver was a bit too boring for my liking.

I think wheel colour is like car colour, there's a load of choices you just need to see some examples to know whether it works on the X5 or not…[/quote]

I'm not against any modding as you will see from my threads :D that's what it's all about 'personal preference to suit your wants/needs'
But surely there is only a limited number of colours you could do to these wheels!!!! Black,grey/graphite ....i would like to see other colours and be proved wrong mind :thumbsup:

I still think this is the way......

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:rofl:[/quote]

I agree, personally I would ever go through the spectrum of black - silver and shades in between. But if you need a refurb anyway then it's just a case of picking which shade you want. Sort of like 'how would you like your steak sir?' :lol:

Having said that, I would too would to see someone brave enough to go wild like red wheels on a red X5. Don't know if I'd like it but would love to see it!

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What colour wheels?

Post by JimmySpeed » Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:58 am

Come clean - that's not a photoshop is it, that's a real pic ain't it? And you're just testing our reaction to your new mod :lol:

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