seeq

+1 Silver.

Rey Gunn

Anthracite. Dare to be different.

hamah

I hate these type of questions. I like silver....my wife likes pink. I think you should probably use what ever colour you prefer unless you are trying to please someone other than yourself.

PaulW_964

I quite like the anthracite, but would go for full cover.

backitoff

+ 1

Jjm4life

Whatever you choose, stick with one color.

Can I throw bronze into the ring?

Vandit

Doing the lip in a different color makes the wheel appear smaller (not in a good way). I also prefer the factory silver color.

Jamie Summers

I've got a set of full anthracite Cup 1s on my black RS right now, and to be honest I don't really like them. Previously I had black centres with a diamond cut rim, which I thought looked great. I like to have some contrast between the wheel centre and the tyre to break it up, otherwise you just have a big dark blob on each corner against black bodywork.
So just to be controversial I would suggest the centres in body-colour with a diamond cut rim, which I think would look really sharp.
Otherwise solid factory silver.......

London911

Thanks all, very much appreciated. It is of course always personal choice (and colour much more subjective than engineering led questions perhaps) but I like getting the opinions of others and enjoy the forum, a few times I've gone in a different direction from comments made here and never regretted it. I do agree with both the rim comment and the dark blob one - hence I think factory silver it will be - which also feeds my natural inclination to keep close to OEM. Some wonderful Bilstein B16s being fitted this week along with the wheels...

Cheers.

Streetdaddy

No harm in asking opinions! Sometimes it's nice to hear comments from others who have pondered the same ?'s.

Mixter

Definitely factor silver for me. I like the wheel colour to contrast from black tires. It also draws attention to and highlights the cup 1's which are a great looking wheel.

berny

Dose anyone have a paint code for the wheel silver or a near match? Berny.

abarthguy

Here is a clip showing the Wurth spray cans as a good match for factory finish.

http://www.autopia-carcare.com/realwhda.html

I talked to a local powder coating company about doing my new Cup-1s and he couldn't guarantee their silver powder would match the factory finish. A pint of the correct wet paint would do fine.

sml

full black.

Earlydays

Do a "King Solomon"...paint the wheels on one side of the car black, the other side silver....you can never see the two colors at the same time