Painted my wheels

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About 2 weeks ago my car fell into a rather large pot hole turning my front left wheel from round to oval and damaging the tyre (bubbled on the outside sidewall, and torn on the inside sidewall with small shards of wheel embedded in the tyre sidewall)

Basically I was diving home on a sunday evening along a very narrow unit road with plenty of oncoming traffic.
I saw the pot holle at the very last second and had nowhere to go but into it.

Long story short, while the wheel was being repaired, I had all my wheels refurbed and re-coloured from OEM silver.

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They look spot on buddy, really suit the colour of the car imo! .. Good choice! :grinning:
 
Couldn't you claim from the local council for a new wheel rather than have a damaged one repaired?

Wheels look fab btw!
 
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Couldn't you claim from the local council for a new wheel rather than have a damaged one repaired?

Wheels look fab btw!
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I could, but it would be years before anything came of it.
Unfortunately, this is Africa, so getting anything out of government other than ripped off is pretty much impossible.
 
Fair enough, I assumed you were in UK!

They'd look nice on my Daytona Grey A4 :0)
 
Has anybody ever done a white S4 with white "peelers" or white painted 5 spoke "rotors"?

I love the white on white look but I've never seen it done on an S4.

Edit... just found this but they're not stock wheels. That's about all I found.

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A friend of mine has white wheels on his grey B8.
When they are clean they look stunning, but its the keeping them spotless that's the issue. They look horrible with even the small amounts of brake dust.
 
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viceroy said:
A friend of mine has white wheels on his grey B8.
When they are clean they look stunning, but its the keeping them spotless that's the issue. They look horrible with even the small amounts of brake dust.
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I currently have a 91 white Supra with the white wheels package. I absolutely love the white on white look. Yah the wheels get dirty but I don't think it's any more obvious or dirty looking than the standard "silver" or aluminum wheels that 90% of cars have.

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viceroy said:
It's a custom colour. Basically anthracite with some metal flakes and a touch of bronze
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Anthracite is a great color. Personally I like your color choice more than black, as many times I have a hard time seeing black wheels. I guess that's why I like white, because you can see them really well. But I don't think Anthracite would work with every color, probably only Silver / Gray or even a color matched Anthracite car. That's about it.
 
Took a close up pic in direct sunlight. Straight on it looks more bronze, at an angle its more anthracite.
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It came out more bronze in the pic.
On the weekend I'll take some pics with a proper camera, and not a phone camera.
 
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Snapped a couple pics while out and about today. These are much more indicative of the actual wheel colour in direct sunlight.
 
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Snapped a couple pics while out and about today. These are much more indicative of the actual wheel colour in direct sunlight.
 
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