coloured wheels? seeking pictures and opinions

[verysideways]

I've had an idea - i want to change the wheels on my car, but rather than go for BBS LM's or something like that, i thought i might colour code my existing wheels (993tt hollow spokes - super light). Since my car is silver, i thought i might make the centres dark grey (a bit GT2 ish) - something like the 993 version of this:
[pic]http://www.rapidcars.com/images/techartgt.jpg[/pic]

anyone got any moe pics? opinions? i fancy making my car stand out from all the other silver 993tt's, but love the fact that the standard wheels are light...

thanks,

vs

[nervous]

id be careful about this if i were you, the locals dont like it (up 'em)

in my humble O itd look great, and if you hate it you can always have it put back. go for it

[sleep envy]

I agree with the big gaylord.

Black or really dark grey with a polished lip

[nervous]

thats MR Big Gaylord to you

[sleep envy]

Sorry mister :doffscap:

[antonyb]

that pic looks great... just make sure you keep the originals for when/if you sell. people dont like aftermarkets.

but i prefer dark wheels on dark cars... matching the body paint. IMHO.

>> Edited by antonyb on Tuesday 11th October 10:33

[nervous]

pic wont work matey

[verysideways]

how about this?

[silver993tt]

er, that looks like a drug dealers car

[nervous]

no, it doesnt, it looks


yours sincerley,
D. Dealer.

[GregE240]

Rods has got those Techart wheels on his 996TT.

And they look the bollox.

Do it.

[danww]

yeah do it - that sort of smoke grey or maybe black chrome (which is a lot more tasteful than it sounds) is what you want.

Dan

[nervous]

danww said:

yeah do it - that sort of smoke grey or maybe black chrome (which is a lot more tasteful than it sounds) is what you want. Dan

:hellyeah: that dark chrome stuff is awesome, looks really loveley, subtle AND deeply shiney. in fact, someone had that done on their 18" spiders over on the cerbera forum and posted the pics, the colour was perfect and looked so ace. do a search, youll see what i mean.

[danww]

though I guess I'd just also add that I would double and treble check that whatever you do can be undone - as your wheels are basically the dog's b**x already and you wouldn't want to stuff them up.

Alternatively I'll take them off your hands for £100 and you can put that towards a new set. How's that?

[gmk666]

I enquired at an OPC about getting mine sprayed Seal Grey and they quoted me about £100 per corner. It would have a looked a bit like this:

http://www11.porsche.com/uk/accessoriesandservice/exclusive/customisationsclassic/911-carrera-s-insealgreymetallic-1/

[BigGriff]

Do it. Mine are grey metallic with the polished rim and look awesome. 'Pristine' did mine and for less than £100 a corner. The quality is very good.

Richard

[verysideways]

Thought i'd get a second set of wheels and have a clean standard set, and a refurb'd coloured set...

General concensus seems positive

[nervous]

stop posting you berk, go get it done

[danww]

verysideways said:

Thought i'd get a second set of wheels and have a clean standard set, and a refurb'd coloured set... General concensus seems positive

How much is a set of hollow spoke 18" turbo alloys? In my looking I've only seen the solid spokers.

I'm more of the view that I'll keep my 17s at the moment, but you never know ...

[sleep envy]

Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think you can get hollow spoke technology wheel for a narrow body as the off set is different.