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Hey! Need some help deciding what to do with my wheels, they need some freshning up!

They're 19"x9.5 and 19"x8.5 TSW Thruxton with grey spokes/polished lip.

The car has got Millenium Jade paint and rusty bolts airbrushed here and there, also the enginebay and trunk is Kandy Apple red :P

Heres how my thoughts go:

Matte black spokes/Gloss black lip

OR

Black spokes/Millenium Jade lip

I dont think its worth trying to implement the Kandy Red on the wheels cause enginebay and trunk wont show when i drive around, right :geek:

Car as it looks now:

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Enginebay and trunk:

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Example of how Matte black/Glossy black looks:

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imho those wheels look cheap and tacky... you spent sooo much money on the paint and then went and destroyed all that work with cheap chinese shit...

as i said in a thread of yours a while back, go meisters with rusted spokes and polished lip :)

Polished lip with shadow chrome spokes, gotta keep the polished lip though.

imho jap wheels are over rated and most do not suit the style of jap cars, most people get them for one of two reasons, (A) light weight (B) brand name, most of the people on this forum would get them for B

Edited by W0rp3D
Jade lip, black spokes
imho those wheels look cheap and tacky... you spent sooo much money on the paint and then went and destroyed all that work with cheap chinese shit...

as i said in a thread of yours a while back, go meisters with rusted spokes and polished lip :D

:D

what they all said.

and where did those rust marks come from?
pop-rivets that hold the body kit on I'm guessing
The car has got Millenium Jade paint and rusty bolts airbrushed here and there...
Edited by PM-R33

PM-R33> Thx :banana:

Heres a close-up of how the 'rusty' parts look while getting airbrushed:

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The wheels where rather expensive, believe it or not, might be my bad there, so i'd prefer to keep them, although in a perfect world they would be 19" SSR Professor's or Work Meister's ;) Also getting my hands on a set of Professors or Meisters is hard when you sit in Sweden, any tips where to find them on auction, worldwide?

Heres two Photoshoped version to give a hint, im not longer all that sure about the black/black version :S:

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Edited by brother_david

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