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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 02:40 PM
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Help on wheel color.

Getting my stock IPL rims repaired from curb damage so figured this would be the best time to change up the wheels a little. I know PC is the way to go but it would take up too much time since this is my DD.

I don't know about now, but I've read the color is hard to match for these rims and the price would be the same no matter what color I pick, getting a "hook up" from a friend.

Please help me decide on a color! Pics would help too because everyone's variation of bronze, gold, copper,red, blue etc are a little different. Thanks

OH, calipers are painted burnt copper but that can easily be changed.
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 02:56 PM
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Send Max (kickintheglass) a PM he has IPL wheels in Spanish Gold and they look absolutely beautiful!
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 03:07 PM
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Courtesy of Austin (VenomGT9)!
https://www.myg37.com/forums/private...nish-gold.html

Here's what they would look like on black paint and blue vinyl:



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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 03:22 PM
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Red? I wanted to try it on my black sedan but I can't decide if it'd look amazing or weird haha
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 03:23 PM
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This red

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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 03:47 PM
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Black and white cars can look good with a broad range of colors. Other cars not so much.

Some colors look good against any car. Silver and gold being the most familiar to most.
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 04:56 PM
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Funny this comes up, just yesterday my buddy suggested going a dark bronze on my Athens Blue... Hmm..
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 05:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Kris9884
Funny this comes up, just yesterday my buddy suggested going a dark bronze on my Athens Blue... Hmm..
Would be similar to all the blue Subaru STis that run w/ bronze wheels, looks great IMO.
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 05:33 PM
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lol I wanted to do some sort of red too but it would be too eye catching. I just want to be noticed not turning all heads. That gold that kickintheglass looks nice but I think it would look better with some more gloss on it? I think I should just stick to safer colors...but here are some colors that got my interest.

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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 06:13 PM
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Keeping the bono color, I'd honestly still with a darker gunmetal color. Bronze/gold won't match properly, red/blue are overdone especially on black.
If you were to change the brakes, I'd go with bronze wheels and purple bonos.
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Old Aug 8, 2016 | 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by VenomGT9
Keeping the bono color, I'd honestly still with a darker gunmetal color. Bronze/gold won't match properly, red/blue are overdone especially on black.
If you were to change the brakes, I'd go with bronze wheels and purple bonos.

Right, I'm leaning towards bronze/champagne pics but for the calipers purple is it a little out there, I've painted mine purple before and yeah.....its burnt copper now for a reason. Maybe it was the stock rim or stock rim color that didn't go well with the purple calipers.

Maybe I'll just keep it the classic/default colors of some sort of bronze and red calipers. At least that way I won't be in for a surprise.

To keep it safe...this is my #1 choice thus far
http://www.vossenwheels.com/gallery/...Satin%20Bronze

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Old Aug 9, 2016 | 08:38 AM
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That bronze looks nice, nothing wrong with black calipers w/ gold stickers, IMO that would go well behind the bronze.
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Old Aug 10, 2016 | 05:49 PM
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no one doing white wheels anymore?
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Old Aug 10, 2016 | 05:53 PM
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I'm acquiring a set of coupe wheels and white is my intended color. Have to keep after the brake dust but they should look good on my white sedan.
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