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Cup 1 wheel colour poll - Hyper Silver or OEM?

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Old 02-12-2019 | 09:20 PM
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If they were mine I would go with stock color

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Old 02-12-2019 | 10:03 PM
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Stock, will look best.
Old 02-13-2019 | 10:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Mrmerlin


If they were mine I would go with stock color
I like your pre-edit idea better. That was funny and totally true. Imagine the double take at car shows.

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Stock, will look best.
I'm on the fence between OEM and gunmetal. For originality and for re-sale OEM is the way to go, hands down.. It's just hard with a white car IMO, and if I'm thinking purely aesthetics, I feel that something with a little more contrast will have more "colour pop".

Anyways, I still have time to think while we plow through winter up here.

Old 02-13-2019 | 10:55 AM
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At least in those pictures, I really did not like the Hyper Silver. OEM looks fine, gunmetal and bronze (I was surprised by this) both look better, to my eyes. Not a huge fan of the white wheels on a white car, but I may be blinded by these being SOOO white lol...
Old 02-13-2019 | 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by bureau13
At least in those pictures, I really did not like the Hyper Silver. OEM looks fine, gunmetal and bronze (I was surprised by this) both look better, to my eyes. Not a huge fan of the white wheels on a white car, but I may be blinded by these being SOOO white lol...
Ya I think the hyper silver would be ok on a metallic finish car, but definitely not on white. It just looks odd with the wheels significantly brighter than the car.

Sorry on the white. It's been years since I did automotive colour shifts and going to white is one of the hardest colours to shift to (Unless your start point is a flat colour). So I gave up. LOL

I had toyed with going Bronze a few years ago. While I think it looks nice, I would be concerned that the novelty might wear off quickly. I guess you could say the same for white.

I think now I'm going to play with a few different shades of gunmetal for a final comparison to the OEM silver.
Old 02-13-2019 | 02:45 PM
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with the newly painted rims, are you planning to freshen up the calipers with new paint or powdercoat...
Old 02-13-2019 | 03:03 PM
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Originally Posted by 77tony
with the newly painted rims, are you planning to freshen up the calipers with new paint or powdercoat...
Yes, I'm going to give the calipers a fresh coat of black. And I will be either repainting the rotor hats or new rotors if it's time (I have 25k on the brakes so an inspection is due).
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Wheels are at the shop for refinishing. I ended up going with a gunmetal, but on the lighter side vs a traditional gunmetal. And they are going to do my aluminum centre caps with the Porsche crest in two tone gold/gunmetal.

I will post pics when I get them back in a week or two.




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I couldn’t be happier with the result. Will post more pics once I get them back on the car.

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Beautiful!
Old 04-06-2019 | 08:50 PM
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Happy with the result. Finally got her out in the light today.





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