wheel colour

[B17NNS]

matty1275 said:

i think either bright silver or smokes chrome will stand out well against the silver body, but anthracite might be a bit dark

Don't have a pic to hand but someone on here went for spectraflair silver. A nice mix of still looking light and OEM but with a twist.

ETA pic

Edited by B17NNS on Wednesday 20th March 23:43

[matty1275]

wow!!

[scotty_d]

I have came to my conclusion dark cars suit light wheels best and light colour cars dark wheels, a nice contrast.

[dswiscrazy]

spongy said:

carbon.......saw some done on wheeler dealers,not sure of the company that did em,but boy did they look cool.........wifey says NO.....WHEN SHE SAW MY EYES LIGHT UP.

www.wickedcoating.co.uk

[Incognegro]

RESURECTION

As I need two of my offside wheels refurbed I was thinking of a colour change perhaps. I have the 18" SP12s in silver on a stardust silver Cerb. I'm torn between 2 colours

1) just refurb 2 wheels to original in the same colour or 2) all wheels dipped in Silver Carbon Fibre?



I'm thinking the carbon effect as I'm also planning to have all my fluid caps dipped in the relevant carbon colours and the dash and seatbacks along with the A posts is gonna bring the look forward (traditional car that has a modern twist). Then I can see what the Le Mans and Monaco crowd think

Let me know peeps. Thanks in advance

[Tanguero]

Fake carbon looks fake...

[SimonKD]

Hi Matt

With a silver car Black (of some shade) or Anthracite seem the best colour of wheels to go for.

By some shade I mean Moonraker, Stardust, Plain Gloss, etc, others or even plain Anthracite.

[Incognegro]

SimonKD said:

Hi Matt

With a silver car Black (of some shade) or Anthracite seem the best colour of wheels to go for.

By some shade I mean Moonraker, Stardust, Plain Gloss, etc, others or even plain Anthracite.

Thanks for the useful reply Simon but I disagree a little, I think only black cars should have black wheels or only if the cars colours are of two tone eg 1 other colour and black only. My interior is red and grey hence I don't want to add another varying bold colour like anthracite. Black would be ok... Till I open the door lol.

As for Tangs comment. I saw McLaren MP4-12C that has carbon effect wheels now looked great but we know it's not real carbon. I mean if that's the augment we can talk about people who paint plastic gloss black and say it's piano wood! Lots of people give it fake carbon looks fake blah blah... Grow up research and stop hating

[Incognegro]

Tanguero said:

Fake carbon looks fake...

Yeah whatever, here's an example of a dipped wheel by a company I won't name. I know carbon wheels are not real carbon. but do they honestly look fake carbon for what carbon fibre actually is? Not IMO and the weave runs all the way though so no voids

[coco79]

Trouble is, I'm guessing as soon as you scuff the 'carbon' alloys they look awful?

Incognegro said:

Yeah whatever, here's an example of a dipped wheel by a company I won't name. I know carbon wheels are not real carbon. but do they honestly look fake carbon for what carbon fibre actually is? Not IMO and the weave runs all the way though so no voids

[anonymous-user]

Incognegro said:

Tanguero said:

Fake carbon looks fake...

Yeah whatever, here's an example of a dipped wheel by a company I won't name. I know carbon wheels are not real carbon. but do they honestly look fake carbon for what carbon fibre actually is? Not IMO and the weave runs all the way though so no voids

I looked into CF dipping my RL7's too, but as the weave pattern will be in one direction across the whole wheel, so will lie longitudinally on some spokes and laterally on others, it just didn't look right to me.

[Incognegro]

djstevec said:

I looked into CF dipping my RL7's too, but as the weave pattern will be in one direction across the whole wheel, so will lie longitudinally on some spokes and laterally on others, it just didn't look right to me.

That to me might be why I like the idea, carbon fibre through curves has a consistent inconsistency that I love... Lol

Would you not think that looks more genuine one piece of carbon? That's kind of why I'm liking but I would only opt for a silver carbon fibre. I'll definitely be having all my fluid caps done in colour coded carbon (oil red, water blue, fuel genuine),

I really have to stop lol

[anonymous-user]

Incognegro said:

djstevec said:

I looked into CF dipping my RL7's too, but as the weave pattern will be in one direction across the whole wheel, so will lie longitudinally on some spokes and laterally on others, it just didn't look right to me.

That to me might be why I like the idea, carbon fibre through curves has a consistent inconsistency that I love... Lol

Would you not think that looks more genuine one piece of carbon? That's kind of why I'm liking but I would only opt for a silver carbon fibre. I'll definitely be having all my fluid caps done in colour coded carbon (oil red, water blue, fuel genuine),

I really have to stop lol

Simple...if you like it....do it!! And stay away from kerbs

I would love proper CF rims, but crazy expensive. So I went with the same RAL colour as the body on mine in the end.

[Tanguero]

Incognegro said:

Tanguero said:

Fake carbon looks fake...

Yeah whatever, here's an example of a dipped wheel by a company I won't name. I know carbon wheels are not real carbon. but do they honestly look fake carbon for what carbon fibre actually is? Not IMO and the weave runs all the way though so no voids

The dipped one looks st to me...

[NilsP]

Tanguero said:

The dipped one looks st to me...

+1

Have you ever seen a real Carbon Fibre wheel?
Looks nothing like that dipped stuff.

Anyway I never got why people want CF.
Its not a nice material. It looks cheap IMHO (still plastic to me... Strong plastic, but plastic nonetheless)
And fake CF looks even cheaper.
And if you go for real CF, sh!t on the road.
It cracks at the first pothole that crosses your way...

The Cerb is an elegant beast, keep it that way... (Again its just my opinion)

[Incognegro]

NilsP said:

Tanguero said:

The dipped one looks st to me...

+1

Have you ever seen a real Carbon Fibre wheel?
Looks nothing like that dipped stuff. - why because it was waiting gloss lacquer or because the weave on that wheel was silver and not gold? Look inside a Pagani

Anyway I never got why people want CF.
Its not a nice material. It looks cheap IMHO (still plastic to me... Strong plastic, but plastic nonetheless)
And fake CF looks even cheaper.
And if you go for real CF, sh!t on the road.
It cracks at the first pothole that crosses your way...

Agreed on carbon cracking at least Nils, deffo elegant but then people think making their wheels black no mater the colour scheme looks elegant?

My wheel guys can match the original colour so I'll keep it as was

The Cerb is an elegant beast, keep it that way... (Again its just my opinion)

[Tanguero]

The only reason for using real carbon fibre is because it is lighter. Stick on, fake carbon fibre has neither the weight advantage nor beauty. To me, it falls firmly in the realm of 'go faster' stripes and stick on motorsport M badges on standard cars.

However its your car that you are talking about so do whatever looks best to you. You asked for opinions, I am sorry I didn't realise that you only wanted ones that agreed with you...

[Incognegro]

Tanguero said:

The only reason for using real carbon fibre is because it is lighter. Stick on, fake carbon fibre has neither the weight advantage nor beauty. To me, it falls firmly in the realm of 'go faster' stripes and stick on motorsport M badges on standard cars.

However its your car that you are talking about so do whatever looks best to you. You asked for opinions, I am sorry I didn't realise that you only wanted ones that agreed with you...

As others have given opinions and not concurred that was no problem as they were relevant to the original question. *refurb 2 wheels in silver or go all in carbon as I'm not leaning either way? Your opinion taken and seen as more as a gripe with the fact it's not real carbon rather than a PHer looking for views on colour scheme. No issues mate each to their own.

Let's leave this one now shall we

[Tanguero]

My opinion is that fake carbon looks fake. The implication being to go with the other option.

[Incognegro]

After all deliberation and great chats with Dave The Trimmer etc my TVR interior is getting some carbon dipping to the hard interior parts and the wheels are are in need of refurb so the whole set are going grey/anthracite carbon dipping not to mention some under bonnet love!

I really dont care what people have to say hopefully I may be the only one that does it so I can be unique again as when the new TVRs land I bet they'll be going for the Koenigsegg type luxury attention to detail look.

MERRY XMAS TO ALL THE PISTONHEADS GANG.