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Old 03-09-2013, 06:37 AM
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My wheels could do with a refurbish, but I can't decide on if I should stay with the silver or go for a dark metalic grey or even black/ smoked chrome (definately won't be polished chrome).

If anyone has pictures of simular options on their car, or can even photoshop my picure I would appreciate it.

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Old 03-09-2013, 08:20 AM
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Hi Smoggy,
Had your car been a darker colour then I would have gone for the metalic grey, perhaps not the black.
However, as it is a light colour then I would look at the black chrome.

My own preference is always to go stock, purely because thats the way it was supposed to be and I quite like that.

Just my own opinion but as always, it is entirely up to you.

That photo bucket thingy may be a good idea though, at least you could try different colours.
 
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Old 03-09-2013, 09:33 AM
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I would stick with silver, but something maybe a bit more sparkly
 
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Old 03-09-2013, 11:22 AM
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Stay with silver. Black is a recent colour for wheels and doesn't look right on our 'old' XK8/Rs.
 
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Old 03-11-2013, 04:32 AM
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I agree, black just doesn't look right, sparkly silver would my choice...
 
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Old 03-12-2013, 02:40 AM
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hypersilver...not the basic 'gray'...the wheel refurbisher tried that once on two of my xk8 wheels. Back they went with one of other two that I still possessed as a go-by, because they apparently didn't color match them BEFOREHAND. If you want something different, why not go with new black growler centercaps, or dare to do the red?

 
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I like these for my xkr 2001 ...
 
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