Shadow Chrome wheels on light colour car?

Shadow Chrome wheels on light colour car?

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MrChips

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211 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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Ok so the general view of my local Berkshire lot seems to be to go for shadow chrome. I'm totally 50/50, hence might as well see what the thoughts are here as well!

Car is a light blue (with mild spectraflair). Wheels are getting refurbed in the next couple of weeks and whilst I thought I was 100% going for normal deep metallic silver, the whole shadow chrome thing has me wondering if it would suit my car. I do like it on darker colour cars, but what's the general thoughts?

And am I right in that the inner part of the rim will be black and just the silver/chrome stuff on the face of it?
This probably would put me off as I quite like the open nature of the wheel and when they're clean the inner sides still make them stand out.

Here's a quick photoshop..



MrChips

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3,264 posts

211 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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Hmm, the do look pretty good!

Anyone know if the OEM finish was powdercoat or painted? Does that even make any difference to the finish so long as they're lacquered afterwards?

I believe that the standard ones are finished in Sparkle Silver paint, rather than a powedercoat so I wouldn't want to lose the brightness from them or the metallic flake!