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wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt?

Posted By: jonnyboy54321

wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 03/09/2017 17:03

All

Didn't want to be looking at my project car this way around but seized brembos and the 'spare' set of wheels I bought with tyres not fitting may well dictate a reverse about face approach.
Car is quite a clean 20vt in broom yellow with standard silver 4 spokes and silver brembos.
What do we think of red calipers (all 4), and possibly a wheel colour change to something like black/gunmetal grey or the likes?

Thanks
John
Posted By: Theresa

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 03/09/2017 22:38

I like black wheels on colours such as blue, yellow and red, so I say black wheels laugh

Red calipers will look ok, but to me, there will be too many colours going on.

If I had a yellow Coupe, it would be black wheels with yellow calipers.

On my other Sprint Blue Coupe, I had black wheels with sprint blue calipers and thought it looked good cool

That's just my opinion though laugh
Posted By: came2dance

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 04/09/2017 08:38

I agree with T it would be one colour too many. I agree with her wheel comments too. Black wheels look good on sprint blue, Yellow and rosso red but not on the darker colours. I don't think even the graphite grey variants look that good on most colours. Nice shiny silver is best* smile

*except on my new silver coop That would be too much silver laugh
Posted By: jonnyboy54321

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 04/09/2017 16:10

Most interesting.
Saw a broom yellow 16v on ebay with black wheels. Not a fan after seeing it.Some sort of gunmetal may be okay but I have just ordered some red calipers so I suspect shiny silver it will be.
Spoke to my usual alloys specialist - they aren't too bad - but his quote was a mickey-take so he is off the team. I can see me ending up doing these myself at this rate.
How much a corner are people paying for a not-too drastic refurb?

TIA
Posted By: SimonN

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 04/09/2017 18:27

Recently I paid less than £200 for all 4 in brum. Can't remember how much exactly but less than £50 per corner. Good job too. I though that was probably about the price..
Posted By: jonnyboy54321

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 05/09/2017 16:11

Have bitten the bullet and just had the tyres thrown on my tatty VT 4 spokes for now.
I have quite a nice set of 6.5 x 16 wheels here if anyone wants them (for a consideration towards my brake overhaul!!!). Not sure what style they are - they're sort of like a 4 wide spoke cyclone type thing.
Posted By: jonnyboy54321

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 29/09/2017 06:04

So.
Procured some wheels from a member that need a refurb. A couple of them are done in a light anthracite/gunmetal type colour - which I love. Will go well with the red Brembos I think. He thinks it's the factory LE wheel colour - I've done a search unsuccessfully - anyone got the colour code for them? Many thanks. J
Posted By: jimboy

Re: wheel colour/caliper colour on a boom yellow 20vt? - 29/09/2017 06:58

It's like food is it not? You've asked a question, so it's open to what one thinks. Personally I would not go red. On a yellow Coop I would go silver with yellow Brembo detail. cool
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