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I highly dislike black wheels most times. The pictures you see are under ideal lighting. more often you end up with just a dark hole and you can't see any detail and it looks not great as the wheel is hidden in shadow. Nice wheels shouldn't be hidden in shadow. Plastidipped stockers? sure. murder away.
$7k in HRE wheels and they dont draw the eye at all.
I much prefer something bright enough to see. See how the wheel is visibile even under overcast lighting?
will look good in anthracite/gunmetals/darker silvers
very cool works in bronze
full polished
I'm fully aware that real life has more dynamic range then photography but i think the effect holds. Really nice wheels just don't look really nice in anything but direct bright light when black, especially when not glossy. Glossy black on glossy black is also kind of boring looking imho. Not a fan of painted bright silver, as many times it's kind of a dated look right now.
I guess I'm dated.....oh well.
I do agree about the black on black, lose all the detail.
Here's my old car in basalt with black gt2 wheels, can't even see em.
Last edited by TT Surgeon; 05-19-2015 at 07:16 PM.
Attached are pics of my Champion wheels on my basalt black car. I get many compliments of the black on black look. BTW, wheels where powder coated basalt black to match the exterior.
I highly dislike black wheels most times. The pictures you see are under ideal lighting. more often you end up with just a dark hole and you can't see any detail and it looks not great as the wheel is hidden in shadow. Nice wheels shouldn't be hidden in shadow. Plastidipped stockers? sure. murder away.
I'm fully aware that real life has more dynamic range then photography but i think the effect holds. Really nice wheels just don't look really nice in anything but direct bright light when black, especially when not glossy. Glossy black on glossy black is also kind of boring looking imho. Not a fan of painted bright silver, as many times it's kind of a dated look right now.
You pretty much nailed it right there man. Of course some fanboy will get mad at you LOL. Totally agree why spend 3k a wheel and not even be able to see it.
05-19-2015, 01:55 PM
