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Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« on: June 22, 2012, 05:25:14 pm »
After great deliberation regarding colour and should I change it as the wheels were tatty I went for it and decided that a few shades darker would be good. I wasn't going to change but decided that the only important thing was the quality of finish rather than being the original colour (original colour was a problem to match precisely also) and the fact that my wheels had been touched up in the past.

Anyhow, I went to The Wheel Specialist and chose a colour called Gunmetal. Here's the result, which I'm very happy with! Comments welcome...




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Re: Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2012, 06:09:38 pm »
I feel exactly the same way. Especially since I was loaned an immaculate set of anthracite BBS CH's (which I fell in love with) while these were being done. I really feel the colour has improved on an average wheel design.

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Re: Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2012, 06:31:26 pm »
awesome  :happy2:
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Re: Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 03:39:17 pm »
how much did in cost you mate
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Re: Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2012, 05:53:51 pm »
Looks good!  :happy2:

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Re: Wheel colour change for Pirelli wheels
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2012, 09:46:16 am »
how much did in cost you mate
£336, colour is called gunmetal.  :happy2:

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