I can't decide if gold wheels are too over the top. What do pople think? And what about white, is that tacky?

 

I think white with stud is a bit foul.

For that wheel should be silver. Gold is for that wheel.

If you want white, try some simplier design.

 

yes mate I reckon gold will be too much for the colour of your car . Get White Rims mate!!!

 

Well I think some wheel are nice for Tim when it is gold. A TE37 Volks Racing wheel for example.

That design is the same as Kallis???

 

Up to you, of course...but white wheels, IMHO, are like white shoes...very 80's or, in car terms, Pulsar Reebok

Why not go after the BBS's on the .com.au site?

 

actually, those wheels look ugly in any color. however, gold goes nice on blue and black, but pretty tacky with the others, imo.

 

The gold looks great but the color combo kinda reminds me of a World Rally Blue STi! DO NOT GO WITH WHITE WHEELS! Yuck!

Joe

 

Agree with Taka - if you go white, needs to be simpler. Horsley's mob fitted white Volks to the turbo cars (at the Nats and featured in Wheels last year - I've still got the issue if you want to have a look) and I think it looked effective. Disagree with Timbo and suggest he had a bad 80's.

Gold can be a worry. The only rims I would consider in gold are the MazdaSpeed MS01's, which can be had in gold and are anything but bling - fantastic wheel IMHO. However, I think your major problem is the colour of your car - I see gold wheels on blue cars and immediately think Subey Sti. Appreciate the 8 looks nothing like but the colour combo of blue and gold just screams that to me.

Only get chromeys if you plan on moving next to Waldo so he can polish them for you.

 

Ah, Joe beat me to the punch on the Sti thing - great minds and all that Joe (except for white rims - the right kind can look good).

 

heh heh, there's a few people sniffing around those. One of them rang me today to compare notes on offsets, etc.

 

I was thinking exactly the same thing re STIs. Can't have that, can we?

I LOVE the look of the Mazda Aust turbo when it had the white wheels and speed stripes. Perhaps that's the way to go!

I really like the deep dish look of some wheels, the BBS' look a bit fussy for my liking.

 

You see simple design works for the white wheels.

I think I asked them and they said they are 19" Volks Racing TE 37s

 

Yep - 8.5 fronts and 9.5 rears.

Not too sure about the stripes though TT.

 

The stripes are the best part!
I love the speed stripes on the new Ford GTs. They make your car go faster you know.

Here's my poor attempt at fitting a set of BBS.

 

That'll dial in a lot more understeer, won't it?

 

Why not go for those revolving spinners on the wheels that the blacks and hispanics in the US love? Also, I saw an exhaust stub with LED lights on it in Crazy Clarks. Cool.

 

Hmm....maybe not so good. The problem with more spokes is cleaning the brake dust, although fitting EBC Reds has reduced that heaps for me

 

Then you should have got a red one.

Trust me on the BBS rims - they look great in the metal. Still, a matter of personal taste.

 

Think they were planning on the FI mods overcoming that.

 

Ditto.

As to cleaning them - if that's worrying you just get some shadow OEM rims - good camouflage for brake dust.

 

I have to say...I dont mind the gold in general, so long as its a dull gold not "yellow" gold, but agree on the STI look looks comments.

White i just dont like and silver....ehh how can you go wrong.

My 2c!!

Andrew

 

They are the drug dealer accessory - go well with those gangster gun platforms the 300C...

 

I agree with Revolver....gold wheels are very Subaru.....errrk!

I like Horsley's white wheels.....on red cars anyway .

 

...and I thought that was the look... gold wheels, white wheels, pink wheels...

 

mate, those white ones look hot!

go teh white!