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Should I do it??

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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 09:43 PM
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Should I do it??

Should I paint my wheels black or keep them brushed aluminum??
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 11:06 PM
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Never been a fan of black rims on a white car.
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by chixdiggit
Never been a fan of black rims on a white car.

once you go black you never go back........

it will look good if you do a theme
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Old Mar 21, 2007 | 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Verb04
Should I paint my wheels black or keep them brushed aluminum??
it looks good right now but it all depends on what you want to do......you can see in my sig, my previous w210, it looked good with the black wheels
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 01:06 AM
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I'm with Alex on this one..but IMHO I love your car as is...it looks sweeeeeeeeeet bro.



Originally Posted by Alexbenz
once you go black you never go back........

it will look good if you do a theme
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 12:07 PM
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Honestly switch it up. Dare to be different...the reason that all of us spend money on modifying our cars is because we don't like to be like the crowd....so step out the box and come up with something fly. For all you know once you do it, a ton of other people may follow.

I know this wasn't what you were thinking about doing but here is an idea. Try painting the wheels white. I saw this on several cars lately here in Atlanta. I have attached a couple of pics of the wheels painted white on the new Bently Coupe. It all comes down to what is going to set YOUR soul on fire when you walk out to the car.
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by GSUNole
Honestly switch it up. Dare to be different...the reason that all of us spend money on modifying our cars is because we don't like to be like the crowd....so step out the box and come up with something fly. For all you know once you do it, a ton of other people may follow.

I know this wasn't what you were thinking about doing but here is an idea. Try painting the wheels white. I saw this on several cars lately here in Atlanta. I have attached a couple of pics of the wheels painted white on the new Bently Coupe. It all comes down to what is going to set YOUR soul on fire when you walk out to the car.

yea i'm with you but the whole white on white is so 80's miami vice.......i've seen in on bigger cars like a S-class or 7 series but smaller cars that do it look ugly....when it somes to wheels its hard to do something to be different without looking ugly
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Old Mar 22, 2007 | 03:04 PM
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Leave them the way they are. Nothing wrong with them the way they are.
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