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Thinking about powder coating my wheels. Satin black or bronze?
Dude. Do NOT listen to the black wheel brigade. they are all about "agressive" and "sporty this" and all that. In reality, here is what happens: first time you scratch black rim it will look terrible! Black rims look like brownish rubber disks once moderately dirty. They hide wheel details (and you have the nicest OEM 997 ones according to many owners). So go with bronze, if you are too unsure - go with bronze or white gold and polished or silver lip. Or matched centers to the car. Lots of options. Keep it classy! Black rims are declasse.
PS. I had a car with black rims. Never again. So if you wanna once do it - do it with plastidip and see if you like it. no harm in that at all!
Last edited by pascalemod; 08-20-2020 at 02:27 PM.
Dude. Do NOT listen to the black wheel brigade. they are all about "agressive" and "sporty this" and all that. In reality, here is what happens: first time you scratch black rim it will look terrible! Black rims look like brownish rubber disks once moderately dirty. They hide wheel details (and you have the nicest OEM 997 ones according to many owners). So go with bronze, if you are too unsure - go with bronze or white gold and polished or silver lip. Or matched centers to the car. Lots of options. Keep it classy! Black rims are declasse.
PS. I had a car with black rims. Never again. So if you wanna once do it - do it with plastidip and see if you like it. no harm in that at all!
Hahaha thanks. I actually have a jeep srt with gloss black wheels. I'm a big fan of black wheels just wasn't sure if I should take the plunge and do gold/bronze. I'm just nervous that I might eventually get sick of it. Black wheels is always safe and clean looking.
2006 C2S, manual. Love it! Haven't done much to it yet as I want to keep it as stock as possible but I fixed the rear badge and may plan to add a CarPlay unit soon as the stock PCM pretty much sucks by today standards.
^^^^ seoulshakers, paint your mirrors bronze to match, rims bronze, and change the interior seat belts to bronze for a total theme - 'Ode to the 997.2 GT3RS coloring scheme.
That would really make you stand out (if that's what you're going for)
08-19-2020, 09:53 PM
