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Old Oct 30, 2007 | 04:04 AM
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Default Painting rims and calipers - Opinions needed!

Okay, last weekend my bumper got resprayed and I replaced the front grill (piccis later tonight) and I was wondering what to do for next weekend on my wee beasty. Shes Woodland green (not vile light green, but not dark green either) and I was wondering what colour I should pop onto my wheeels and calipers. I want the calipers to be noticed, but not jump out at you and say "omgomgomg im a brake caliper!"

I was thinking of Possibly Bronze for the wheels and then Jet black for the calipers? cos then they will stand out slightly from the bronze wheels but they wont stand out too much. Saw a scooby that was green with bronze wheels the other day and it looked cool. Any thoughts?
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 05:23 AM
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what color are the wheels now?! and maybe go with the same color as the body?!

your not exactly leaving me with much info to ride with here
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 06:47 AM
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w/o seeing the color its hard to know if bronze would look good. Black or gun metal would probably look good on green.
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 06:51 AM
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I will post a picci tonight when I get home =] The rims are currently stock silver, they are only hub caps but i dont have the money to go buy alloys, and the prev. owner curbed the **** out of the wheels by the look of things.
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 06:57 AM
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If you are talking about hubcaps...I would just refresh the silver. And not worry about the calipers cause odds are you cant see them hardly at all through the steelies behind the caps.
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 07:18 AM
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I painted my calipers black
 
Old Oct 30, 2007 | 07:40 AM
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Yeh, I just thought Id paint them whilst I was there for when I do eventually splash the cash on some nice alloys.
 
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