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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:42 AM
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What color wheels are you running, in the silver subarus. I have newage wheels on my classic and they are sort of gunmetal silver.
Thinking of doing them gloss black to break colour up, all silver too much in my opion.
Any photos of silver cars with different colour wheels,that might change me from thinking gloss black.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:48 AM
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Don't go gloss, go matt or anthrite or gun metal, gloss will look tacky imo
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:58 AM
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my wheels are gunmetal grey on mine

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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 12:10 PM
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Anthracite, lime green or sky blue.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 12:17 PM
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Satin black looks good done my wheels in it
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 12:26 PM
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 01:19 PM
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Satin black or gun metal grey coupled with black crystal light pack, looks great.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 01:44 PM
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Gold - its the new black / gun metal
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:21 PM
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I think its looking satin black , i do like gold but other half does not. Think its becacauce she hated my aprila rsv1000r i had, which had gold wheels.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:26 PM
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Black!
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:34 PM
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I'm thinking of going dark metallic gray on my crystal gray car.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 05:40 PM
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Gunmetal on my silver blob Look awesome! Sorry about the poor photo though!

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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 06:08 PM
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I dont get black or grey wheels. They just look dirty IMO. The GB270 estate is a nice car ruined by it wheels.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 06:56 PM
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Satin black looks good if you ask me [IMG]/[/IMG]
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 07:04 PM
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I think I'm more inclined to go for a glossy colour which will polish up well, though Satin does look sexy
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 07:43 PM
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 07:45 PM
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White wheels look smart on a silver car.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 08:19 PM
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I have gold....definitely not the new black imho, I am looking to change to gunmetal/anthracite in the near future...

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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 08:36 PM
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Originally Posted by N_Scooby
Gold - its the new black / gun metal
this is my Classic wagon on golds...(all the stickers are gone now)

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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 09:33 PM
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I think black wheels have been done to death now. Ive started to like silver wheels. Silver wheels on a silver car give it a nice clean look!!!!
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 09:43 PM
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I agree. Silver looks better on normal cars (Imprezas included) as it doesnt look like the owner is trying to hard. Super cars and other exotica can pull it off though. Less is often more.
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 10:25 PM
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Had standard silver on mine then changed to gunmetal, which suits it a lot better, just dont go too dark or you tend to lose all the detail and it looks like the car is rolling round on ***** of darkness, you may aswell have steel rims painted black for the amount of the wheel you can actually see. Unless you have big shiney new brakes behind them of course
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Old Nov 6, 2012 | 11:10 PM
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satin black looks far better than standard sh1ty or gunmetal/silver wheels each to there own
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Old Nov 7, 2012 | 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by damfly27
this is my Classic wagon on golds...(all the stickers are gone now)

We all went through the sticker phase!! Gold on Silver cars looks good because everyone else is going for dark grey / black. I'm sure these things go round in cycles and in a few years everyone will be back to gold.

My old car (**** poor photo as it was inside my work on a wet winters day after fitting the wheels and FMIC):



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