Ideas for wheel color

[techy101]

Since I lack pretty much any kind of artistic eye, I wanted some other peoples opinions on what would look good for wheel color. I've hated the white wheels my SVX came with ever since I got her and now I've got a month off between semesters and can do something about it. My initial thoughts were gunmetal, but as I said, I'm terrible at figuring out things that match

On a side note, I will still be doing my writeup, school just got crazy busy and I had forgotten how much work it took. (I'm going back for my second degree)

Here are some pictures to help get an idea.







Thanks,
Matthew

[Crazy_pilot]

I detest white wheels in general. Never have liked them, never will. Are you debating colours for new wheels, or to paint your stock wheels? With the heavy shape of the stock SVX rims I don't find them good looking in any colour other than silver. If you're going aftermarket, some black or gunmetal rims would be cool.

What colour is your car? It looks too metallic to be one of the stock reds.

[michael]

I'm partial to stock silver but gold might look nice with your paint job. I have a set of center caps too if you're interested. Are those rims painted white or just really faded. If they are painted white you may be able to salvage the oem finish.

[Blacky]

Gunmetal, it's on 2 and soon 3 of my 4 cars.

[techy101]

For the record, I didn't paint these wheels white. Some prior owner did. I have never liked it, it looks tacky to me.

I am sticking with the stock wheels. I sourced myself center caps from a junk yard, but they're stock color so I just left them off until I get things painted.

I don't want to put too much more money into this car since I'm beginning to think about the next project. It'll require saving for a while though.

Crazy_Pilot, you are correct that it's not a stock SVX color. It's Mica Ruby Pearl. I believe it was an SVX color in a couple of countries, but not in North America. One of the reasons I like it is that it looks nice and red in the day, but at night it blends into the darkness well. It's hard to describe.

So it's 2 for stock silver, 1 for gunmetal so far.

[michael]

Post# 9 I found inspiring http://www.subaru-svx.net/forum/show...light=Calendar

[LetItSnow]

A buddy 'chopped this for me as a joke... Takata Green!

[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by techy101

For the record, I didn't paint these wheels white. Some prior owner did. I have never liked it, it looks tacky to me.

I am sticking with the stock wheels. I sourced myself center caps from a junk yard, but they're stock color so I just left them off until I get things painted.

I don't want to put too much more money into this car since I'm beginning to think about the next project. It'll require saving for a while though.

Crazy_Pilot, you are correct that it's not a stock SVX color. It's Mica Ruby Pearl. I believe it was an SVX color in a couple of countries, but not in North America. One of the reasons I like it is that it looks nice and red in the day, but at night it blends into the darkness well. It's hard to describe.

So it's 2 for stock silver, 1 for gunmetal so far.

As I understand it the stock wheels came in three different shades of silver. I myself have cars with two different silver shades.

In my opinion the brightest of these silvers will suit your Mica Red best. The darkest silver, which is almost a tungsten colour, does not suit it well at all.

I have stock photos of original market Ruby cars with different shade standard rims. [OEM market Ruby cars all have a black roof]. Would you like to see them for comparison?

Joe

[techy101]

I would love to see those pictures!

[svxistentialist]

Originally Posted by techy101

I would love to see those pictures!

Coming up later. I will upload them to my locker, so they can be linked to a post.

Joe

[svxistentialist]

OK, photo comparison time. You will be aware that photo hues are not always accurate. Things like white balance can vary depending on time of day, camera, print process etc.

You will still be able to see what the comparison should look like.



This is a Subaru publicity shot with light coloured OEM rims.



This is a German Ruby from a catalogue, bright sunlight, with bright rims.



This shot is an Oz Ruby, bright rims.



Very clean Japanese import, light or mid coloured rims.



Oz Ruby with dark rims at back, 3rd car is '95 Brilliant Red with brighter silver rims.



This shot is a Japanese Ruby in a Japanese scrap yard. Almost tungsten dark rims, probably a '93. Not likeable IMO.



Another Oz Ruby, with aftermarket rims.

Well, which do you think will look the best on your car?



Joe

[svxistentialist]

You can check out some extra photos in the following Album:

http://www.subaru-svx.net/photopost/showgallery.php?cat=574&ppuser=66

Joe

[mikecg]

Black with a color matched strip on the lip. :-)

[techy101]

I painted them last weekend, but they've been curing in the garage until today. The color was Duplicolor Graphite wheel paint with their wheel clear coat. Also, please ignore the ugly balancing weights.

The paint job is not that great because of some shoddy work in the previous paint job. Grinding through proved impractical and they really would need to be sand blasted. I'm not willing to put that kind of money into the car at this point, and the cars paint job is sub-par to begin with so I just scuffed and painted. Two coats with self etching primer, two coats of build up primer, two coats of color and two coats of clear.

The end result is ok, but far from great. I may end up sourcing some stockers to put on when I sell the car.


Anyway, here's the end result. Sorry about the crappy cellphone pic but it gives an idea.

[svxistentialist]

Hmmmmmmm