dark wheels on carbon blank e39?
dark wheels on carbon blank e39?
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TheAngryDog

Original Poster:

13,267 posts

239 months

Wednesday 27th November 2013
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Im thinking about redoing the alloys on my e39. They are silver having been refurbed before my ownership, but I am considering going for a darker colour.

Any thoughts?

Edit: carbon black. Stupid auto correct

Edited by TheAngryDog on Wednesday 27th November 23:53

RichardM5

1,861 posts

166 months

Thursday 28th November 2013
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Not a fan of dark wheels really, even more so on black cars. To me they just make the tyres look dirty and dull, you might as well have cheap black steel wheels with no trim!

Plenty of example out there




duff

1,051 posts

229 months

Thursday 28th November 2013
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OEM Shadow chrome is the best option for these IMO, anything else just cheapens the cars appearance.


Cheib

25,424 posts

205 months

Thursday 28th November 2013
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Yup the shadow chrome on the original E39 wheels and also the Z3M wheels are just about the best M car wheels there have been IMHO.

ady702

376 posts

177 months

Thursday 28th November 2013
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You lose all the detail of the alloys by going black. I would re-do them in OEM chrome shadow or Hyper Silver

Edited by ady702 on Thursday 28th November 15:54

tjk123

760 posts

260 months

Friday 29th November 2013
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OEM shadow chrome is the only way to go IMO.