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[535XrayIndigo]

Hey i am going to have my 19" m3 replica wheels refinished after they spent a little too much time with the curb. (wife..) Looking for Ideas about what to do with them. I am looking into competition gold, black with machined face, gloss black, or Silver. So I am all over the board. Anyone have some I Ideas or awesome Photoshop skills. The car is going into to get the 1.5" drop and rear brakes done Then over to the wheel shop with the wheels next friday. Please Help!! OPEN TO ANY IDEAS FOR COLOR.

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[ulrichd]

Always the wife or GF. Guys never curb wheels

[535XrayIndigo]

I know. A week after I put 20" on my 2014 mazda 6 my sister curbed them. What do you think of the gold? It what I'm leaning towards currently.

[ShocknAwe]

Not a fan of the gold personally. If it were me I would go with a light titanium gunmetal with black accenting and a high gloss clear over all of it. Or just gunmetal all over with the clear. Simple and most importantly for me, clean.

If you like the gold, go for it. You'll need to do a total amber delete though, gold clashes HORRIBLY with amber reflectors.

Another note: you could go for a sort of Hyperblack with gold fleck in it. Could look cool. Dunno if they make something like that.

[535XrayIndigo]

Originally Posted by ShocknAwe

Not a fan of the gold personally. If it were me I would go with a light titanium gunmetal with black accenting and a high gloss clear over all of it. Or just gunmetal all over with the clear. Simple and most importantly for me, clean.

If you like the gold, go for it. You'll need to do a total amber delete though, gold clashes HORRIBLY with amber reflectors.

Another note: you could go for a sort of Hyperblack with gold fleck in it. Could look cool. Dunno if they make something like that.

Any pics of the gunmetal?

[ShocknAwe]

Good example of the color I had in mind:



Would look awesome with some black contrasting in there too. You could probably have them put whatever color flake you wanted as well to give it depth.

[535XrayIndigo]

Originally Posted by ShocknAwe

Good example of the color I had in mind:



Would look awesome with some black contrasting in there too. You could probably have them put whatever color flake you wanted as well to give it depth.

looks good. The wife hates the gold so it might be a couple days in the dog house if I do go for it. Although after reseaarch bronze is more what I was thinking of. I am worried about the grey contrasting with the black on the bmw. The black bmw uses has just a touch of grey and it always drove me bonkers when I had the anthricite wheels cause it clashed to me.

[ShocknAwe]

Anthracite is quite dark compared to the above though.

[535XrayIndigo]

Going in on Friday to talk with the guy refinishing them. He has a ton of samples there he said. He had mentioned a Lamborghini gray that apparently looks awesome.

[535XrayIndigo]

Originally Posted by ShocknAwe

Good example of the color I had in mind:



Would look awesome with some black contrasting in there too. You could probably have them put whatever color flake you wanted as well to give it depth.

After listening to many wise people telling that i should not do gold and should go with grey, I've decided to go with a dark Lambo grey. After talking to the Skip at skips wheel werks here in beaverton and seeing all the other wheels he had just refinished. I heeded his advice. Sitting mine next to one he had done in the same color it was an easy choice. I also realized the anthricide has a ton of blue hue to it. Cant wait to post picks. Thanks for the advice folks.

[ShocknAwe]

looking forward to it!

[OzJustin]

IAmTheOne - Could I ask where you sourced your replica M3 wheels from? I would love to see what replica E46 M3 wheels (with suitable 1 series offset) look like

[535XrayIndigo]

Originally Posted by ShocknAwe

looking forward to it!

Pretty sure it looks amazing. Hope you guys like.

[Rob Daman]

Looks good

[535XrayIndigo]

Originally Posted by OzJustin

IAmTheOne - Could I ask where you sourced your replica M3 wheels from? I would love to see what replica E46 M3 wheels (with suitable 1 series offset) look like

I got mine from the tire rack. I will be putting on a wide body kit on the front fenders in the coming months so I can get 255 series tires on there.

[ShocknAwe]

Very nice, came out perfect!

[Greg FEightytwo]

curious what offsets they are and where you got them. I like these wheels a lot but I thought they were too aggressive in offset and we couldn't use them.

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Originally Posted by IAmTheOne

Hey i am going to have my 19" m3 replica wheels refinished after they spent a little too much time with the curb. (wife..) Looking for Ideas about what to do with them. I am looking into competition gold, black with machined face, gloss black, or Silver. So I am all over the board. Anyone have some I Ideas or awesome Photoshop skills. The car is going into to get the 1.5" drop and rear brakes done Then over to the wheel shop with the wheels next friday. Please Help!! OPEN TO ANY IDEAS FOR COLOR.

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[AdamsShady]

Originally Posted by IAmTheOne

Pretty sure it looks amazing. Hope you guys like.

did you do something different with the chrome trim? it looks different than the stock strim