Anthracite Monza on Blue Graphite

[Panthera]

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


GTI -antharcite2 by djmhughesuk, on Flickr


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

Cheers

[MC71]

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)

 

[Panthera]

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)

 

I have PM'ed RR about this. Thanks for the idea, just need to see a picture of it.

[arthur]

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!

[Panthera]

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?

[JoeDarKa]

My painter mixed subaru grey with reflex silver and got a nice light anthracite colour

[wheelygood]

anthracite always looks good on blue cars