no, run standard in black for winter to save on the cleaning and grab a nice set of cheap silver ones from MrT for summer.

Just been having another look at that one Baz and I can see the differnce: no body black at all, so the wheels do look good.

Must admit I'm not a fan of the black sills on the coupé, it reminds me too much of the old 70's trick of slabbering on underseal to hide rusty sills and filler

I have some speed red paint left over so I might just paint the sills......


Next question: leave the stonechip, textured paint in place or go smooth?

that looks great, you should do that

Yep! Have decided to go the all red route and remove the 70's stylee black underseal sills.

Still wondering if I should leave the stonechip on for protection and just primer and paint that or save my pennies and buy some sideskirts?

Decisions, decisions.......

I would just paint, cos the car will look super crap with side skirts and no front or rear spoilers...

Ah, yes, fair point WMT, as usual

Took your advice and it looks great! Far better than it did and the colour of the wheels seems lighter now........

Sorted!

There's a front bumper waiting to be prepped and sprayed so that'll get the full colour coding and I'm looking for a rear bumper at the moment, so it'll get same again.

Thanks for the advice, it really made a difference.

Oh, by the way, the colour variations in the sill are caused by shadows from the tree, honest

Looks much better

Hmm I got to say that u did a good job on the refurb. Hard work no doubt. But well worth it for the £200 saving u made, or therabouts. The wheels look great. But, they're not great looking wheels comparatively now are they. You're lucky to have some ahem 'winter wheels' . To that end, it's job done. They look good enough to be pebble dashed by salt, grit, snow & ice or whatever else the winter might throw at us.

I've not had mine long & I was waiting until after winter to get the originals refurbed or maybe get some new alloys altogether. Looking at your 2 pics, same car, different wheels, shows just how much of a styling change it makes.

For what it's worth.. It looks great without skirts with the summer wheels. The winter wheels don't look so great. So, it's natural that u try to draw away from that fact by other means. It won't work. I have skirts on my red one & the originals still look pants compared to your shiny alloys. You know this. Put those lovely wheels back on & then u will be much happier . It's a different car without them.

What's the worst that could happen? You'd have to get them refurbed . Just put new tyres on mine & will definately be changing the wheels next time around. Thanks for posting up those 2 pics & helping me to make that decision. Cheers.

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Sounds like you might have a buyer for the old ones already!

think leighping (dodgy sig pic aside, that deserves a thread of its own... )has a point stan,

just think how nice your coupe will be with body coloured sills (and bumper bits) with your summer wheels on!

2 buyers now....bidding war!

Yeah, the sills are done and it does look (in my 'umble opinion) a hundred times better. Now to do the bumpers........need to get a rear bumper first!!

Hahaa just like my mrs. She also hates it. Some people.. just have noooo class . I'd take it off. But it looks the dogs.