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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 11:38 AM
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Help me decide on wheel/caliper color...please?

Hey guys,

I think it's time to paint my wheels. I was thinking of painting them black and painting my calipers yellow.

I don't have good picture of my car but here is a white car with my same wheels. Also I think it's finally time for a drop. What do you guys think? Thanks!!




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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:08 PM
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Finally! Slam your ride Karo lol.... Paint your calipers candy teal...MMMmMmM so sexy of a color. But yellow will look good or a gold color or blue is always good too IMO.

I like bronze on white cars, but black will look good too. It'll make the caliper color stand out more.


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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:28 PM
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Thanks, me and milkman were thinking about bronze wheels too. You think it'll look good on our car?

That teal color looks dope. Bronze with teal calipers and teal lugnuts
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:35 PM
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how can bronze and white not look good lol

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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:43 PM
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I say Hunter Orange!


If you can dip them to get the realtree pattern that would be a plus ;-)

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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:45 PM
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Aw crap! I just saw where that image was hosted... Ugh. Sorry guys.
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 12:48 PM
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Has anyone had their brakes dipped? I don't know if the dipping process works for components that get hot, but it would be interesting!
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 02:23 PM
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Bronze or gunmetal would look good (black's too common, imho, and pandas are for the zoo ).

Then a nice blue for the calipers. Since your car's white, it can handle two more interesting colors for the wheels/calipers.

As long as you don't do black rims/red calipers, please.
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 07:34 PM
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Hey guys,

P.S. Damn today I made 3 threads already....I starting to feel like cpbeasley....loool j/k
I'll paint your calipers for you. With your own blood.

Bring it biznatcho!
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 08:23 PM
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Volks Magnesium Blue and orange caliper!!!!

Mag Blue is always sexy... here's Mag blue (left) vs FZero Blue (right) Volks new blue color.

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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 08:26 PM
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 10:19 PM
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 11:07 PM
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Karo that car is already hot as **** i wouldn't even touch anything!

How come you wanna change the look?

Btw those blue rims are amazing! The color just looks so shinyyy
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Old Jan 21, 2011 | 11:31 PM
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+1 to AMG silver
i want that work bench. just to look at the calipers.
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Black and LIME GREEN
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U know how much money is on that counter lol. wow
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and why didnt i ever think of this!!!
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I might go Bronze but I love the look of the Mag VOLKs!!! I don't know if that'll look good on a white car.

Thanks everyone for your help. I might have to go with Mag because Milkman originally talked about Bronze and I don't want to jack his idea.
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Originally Posted by Karo
I might go Bronze but I love the look of the Mag VOLKs!!! I don't know if that'll look good on a white car.

Thanks everyone for your help. I might have to go with Mag because Milkman originally talked about Bronze and I don't want to jack his idea.
You want me to run some photo's through photoshop for you?
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Old Jan 22, 2011 | 06:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Karo
I might go Bronze but I love the look of the Mag VOLKs!!! I don't know if that'll look good on a white car.

Thanks everyone for your help. I might have to go with Mag because Milkman originally talked about Bronze and I don't want to jack his idea.
Dude! of course mag will look good on a white car! imo at least haha
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Old Jan 22, 2011 | 06:40 PM
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Do it Karo then paint ur calipers orange!
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