Gold/Bronze Coloured wheels on a silver car - does it work?

[TheBALDpuma]

As per the title really. I'm getting my wheels refurbed next week and I cant decide!!

[mradam]

If the car is black then yes it'll probably work

[The Rotrex Kid]

mradam said:

If the car is black then yes it'll probably work

Um.......

Gold/Bronze Coloured wheels on a silver car - does it work?

My input OP, what's the car?

[Leon R]

Sure does.

[TheBALDpuma]

The Rotrex Kid said:

Um.......

Gold/Bronze Coloured wheels on a silver car - does it work?

My input OP, what's the car?

Mk5 Golf GTI - Pirelli Edition (important maybe because it has specific wheels)

[braddo]

Maybe bronze. If they were the BBS-style wheel gold could work, but I don't think your alloys will look good in gold.

Bronze or gold wheels need a bit of aggression somewhere in the car/ride height/wheel to carry it off.

Edited by braddo on Friday 25th September 14:20

[ajprice]

Like this with the 5 spokes? (Thanks Google search )

[TheBALDpuma]

ajprice said:

Like this with the 5 spokes? (Thanks Google search )

Thats the one

[TheBALDpuma]

braddo said:

Maybe bronze. If they were the BBS-style wheel gold could work, but I don't think your alloys will look good in gold.

Bronze or gold wheels need a bit of aggression somewhere in the car/ride height/wheel to carry it off.

Edited by braddo on Friday 25th September 14:20

Yeah I'm unsure - just fancy doing something a bit different

[braddo]

Just don't change them to black!

[TheBALDpuma]

braddo said:

Just don't change them to black!

I'm really not a fan of black wheels either!

[rev-erend]

In short, no.

If the car was black or Blue then yes.

[barryrs]

I think you can guess my opinion.

[JD82]

I'm in the no camp on this.

Maybe some sort of dark grey/ anthracite?

[anonymous-user]

Can you afford to re-do them when you decide it really doesn't look good.

I wouldn't but I think you should so the PH family can learn from it.

[TheBALDpuma]

gottans said:

Can you afford to re-do them when you decide it really doesn't look good.

I wouldn't but I think you should so the PH family can learn from it.

I mean it's not loads of money, but I'd also rather not do it twice

barryrs said:

I think you can guess my opinion.

I'd be going a little lighter than this if I went for it.

JD82 said:

I'm in the no camp on this.

Maybe some sort of dark grey/ anthracite?

They are a light anthracite now which, as I want a change I won't go back to I don't think. It's etiher the standard quite bright silver, or something a little different like gold/bronze - just not sure they work!

rev-erend said:

In short, no.

If the car was black or Blue then yes.

I think it works really well on a red car too. Shame I have boring silver!

[Olivergt]

If it was me, I would stick with the original silver.

Don't over complicate things.

I'm sure when it's all polished up it looks pretty nice as standard.

[daytona111r]

Bronze wheels if they’re more silvery than dark

[LotusOmega375D]

Plenty of silver Imprezas with gold wheels out there.

[Truckosaurus]

I like bronze wheels.

Golden wheels sometimes works (classic Impreza for example).

I'm going off black wheels, mainly because they look rubbish in pictures and in the flesh once the tyres lose their shine it looks poor plus shows up every scratch and any curb rash looks really obvious.