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i'm trying to figure out what color i should powdercoat my BBS wheels, so help me!!

pictar for reference:



i was thinking gold because i liked the way my old p7's looked, my brother was trying to say black (i hate gloss black wheels) and the lady at the powdercoating place just threw WAY to many colors at me and i just couldnt decide.

Leave them the color they are?

anthracite

Gold

I am sure you know that you can get powdercoat in different % of gloss. Mine for example, are 60% black. Just reminding you. What ever color you get, you would probably want to keep the percent of gloss involved in your decision. If they are too glossy, they mirror reflect the road surface and make the finish of the powdercoat look distorted or mottled. On your style of wheel it might not be an issue though.

Can anybody photoshop some diff. colors on there?

Um, Why Jake are you considering painting them?

The silver on the red looks good with the FMIC!

Manarius wrote:Leave them the color they are?

x2, They look pretty good as they are.
Or a satin gunmetal would go well w/ your red/black scheme without being gloss black.

Black on red looks good. I say black with a red stripe. time attack style!

well, they're all rock chipped and need to be "refinished" anyways, so i figure might as well try a new color

How about silver on the rim and gunmetalish in the center, something like this...



I think it goes will with the kinda blackout thing you got going and highlights the wheels. All balck/dark always makes the wheels disappear.

Just a thought
Gary

Why not black with a silver lip?
That would look cool.

Either anthracite or gold.

Black with red rim-piping (sort of like a pin-stripe on the outer rim lip/edge) Yamaha R1 Style!!!

I actually like the silver, but if you must paint them, british black would look amazing. Like the Forester STi conversion you guys did.

I would go with gold personally, I think it'd look real nice with the Rio Red.

I'm not usually a fan of 'rimmed' wheels but that black and silver Gary threw up does look awfully good. It goes well with the black scheme you have going on with the car and still keeps the wheels from falling out of the picture. I put my vote to that.

Or gold.

Body color with polished lips

Hey I love that red! I wanna get my old faded silver to something spicy...what's the colour code for that? Thanks!

I know the color is Rio Red.

Yup, the color is most definitely rio red

and the BBS's are now purdy gold

Um pics dude pics

+1 for pics of gold

but also when you blacked out the trim, did you paint or pull the chrome?

i'll post a whole mess of pics for you guys tomorrow

and the chrome on the front and rear bumpers were pulled off, but you cannot pull the chrome on the side mouldings off and i just cant get paint to stick to them (we practiced on my bro's car) so i just electrical taped over them and it works awesome and you can only tell when you get really close to it.

well, i dont have any pics of the BBS gold yet other than the dyno videos. but i did get some pics of the car the the wheels i borrowed from my friend while i had the bbs's powdercoated and a few from just before they were powdercoated















more pics here