Russy01

I'm in the same boat. Royal navy blue and dont know what to do.

ChilledBud

Had a look at other sites and I'm pretty much decided on smoked chrome, it's the only one dark enough for the dark blue shade that the car has. They jokingly said they would refuse to do them in gold as it's subarued to death.

ChilledBud

Well I've had a surprise day off next Friday, so a little bantering later and the car's booked in on the 9th of March 8am.

The only slight problem I have is I put the 17" back on today and put the winter 16" away, and the silver colour actually looks quite nice on the car, but I'm sure I'll be bored of silver within a week

ChilledBud

Well any last thoughts before she heads for TWS Friday 8am?

I've been liking seeing with the OEM silver wheels on, and have thought about going for the lighter black chrome over the smoked chrome, but then I keep thinking the RNB darkness would suit the darker wheel

simundo777

Personally i'd go with a very bright silver, I think it suits the RNB so well. I've had wheels refurbed in smoked on my previous black 350z and they did look good but they look so much smaller when you go darker and I did miss the silver wheels on it.

Its up to you but I do think silver looks the most stylish on RNB.

If you are anywhere near Cheshire you can try on my my anthracite wheels on the car to see what it looks like but guessing it will be too late by then.

Smoked chrome:


A shade darker than Silverstone:

ChilledBud

Well she's been dropped off and being picked up around 5pm.

After a chat with the guys we decided to play it a little safe and go for the lighter black chrome over my initial smoked chrome. They said the black chrome tends to work on all styles of wheels when the smoked can be hit and miss, even if it does look a little better when pulled off.

ChilledBud

Picked them up, and apart from the fact they had a nightmare with the metal removed centre caps, everything went nice and smooth.

I'm going to have to see them when the Sun's out for a proper look as it was getting dark, part of me thinks I should have either bitten the darker colour bullet, or the proper silver bullet, but time will tell.

If you excuse the camera phone picture with a finger smudge, taken overcast with fading light it would be much obliged. Will get some proper ones in the near future.

simundo777

They look silver though?

Look great

ChilledBud

Yeah, but no, but yeah!

From what I remember the process involves powdercoating the wheel black, and then adding layers of a chrome silver, so when the light catches it at different angels it changes depth and colour. It defiantly needs the Sun out to get a better picture of what it looks like, these finishes are notoriously hard to picture as they don't catch what the eye can see very well. What the finish does do it make the outside of the alloy look silver while the inner parts of the spokes have a darker look, all the while changing shades as you look from a different angle.

ChilledBud

As a side note I did tell them the fact that smoked chrome is a fair bit darker than black chrome is a little confusing in the name department. Flash chrome being a shades darker again doesn't help either.