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Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« on: March 07, 2013, 08:13:01 pm »
My 17" Monza are in need of a refurbishment and I fancy the idea of having them done in anthracite/new anthracite colour. But I was thinking it might look too heavy looking/too dark?


GTi Anthracite1 by djmhughesuk, on Flickr


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What is the difference between Anthracite and New Anthracite which I see "arthur" has on his red GTi?

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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2013, 08:47:41 pm »
How about a smoked chrome with darker inserts? Will look less "heavy" but still a touch darker. Find a pic of RedRobin's old Monza's (somewhere on here)

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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2013, 12:21:14 pm »
How about a smoked chrome with darker inserts? Will look less "heavy" but still a touch darker. Find a pic of RedRobin's old Monza's (somewhere on here)

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I have PM'ed RR about this. Thanks for the idea, just need to see a picture of it.
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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2013, 09:31:22 pm »
I'm still really happy with my "New Anthracite" refurb.  I'm not really sure what is "new" about the colour but it is darker than your image and has a bit of a metallic effect in there!  One thing is they really match the colour of the plastic of the lower bumper and the sideskirts!

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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2013, 12:18:32 pm »
I'm still really happy with my "New Anthracite" refurb.  I'm not really sure what is "new" about the colour but it is darker than your image and has a bit of a metallic effect in there!  One thing is they really match the colour of the plastic of the lower bumper and the sideskirts!

Arthur, thats what I was thinking - the anthracite colour match the unpainted dark grey plastics. And I also thought that as my GTi's colour is blue graphite, the alloys would bring more of that graphite out - if you see what I mean?

I have just got to find another set of wheels to use whilst the monza's are at Pristine.  Any ideas?
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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2013, 03:49:53 pm »
My painter mixed subaru grey with reflex silver and got a nice light anthracite colour



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Re: Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite
« Reply #6 on: April 10, 2013, 01:49:22 am »
anthracite always looks good on blue cars