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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #20 on: 18 May 2021, 19:15 »

Had my Santiago’s powder coated a couple of years ago, don’t regret it,





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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #21 on: 18 May 2021, 20:18 »

Had my Santiago’s powder coated a couple of years ago, don’t regret it,


Nice; they look really good, and the colour is spot on in my opinion :cool:. That’s how should have come from the factory - or at least VW should have offered it as an option.
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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #22 on: 18 May 2021, 22:00 »
Those powder coated Santiago's on your white GTi look fantastic. Reckon they'd look great on my Tornado Red GTi, anyone have any photo's of such a combo? What's the exact colour?

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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #23 on: 18 May 2021, 23:01 »
Those powder coated Santiago's on your white GTi look fantastic. Reckon they'd look great on my Tornado Red GTi, anyone have any photo's of such a combo? What's the exact colour?

Not a GTI or Santiago’s, but there’s a Tornado Red GTD with anthracite / gunmetal coloured Nogaro alloys at the second link in my first post on page one of this discussion thread. That’ll give you a good idea of what the grey alloys / red car combination looks like on a performance mk7 Golf.

IMO, anthracite / gunmetal alloys work well with most paint colours, but I think they look best with white or red cars.
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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #24 on: 19 May 2021, 10:56 »
I need to get my Brescias sorted at some point. I'm thinking powder coating. Trying to decide on a colour - there is quite a lot of black on the Brescias that give it the appearance of narrow spokes. I'm a bit concerned that other colours might just lose the detail, short of 2-tone powder coating. I've seen them done in black and they looked horrid IMO. Gunmetal might also be too dark. I love the platinum colour that Porsche offer on their 911s - not quite as bright as silver, to offer contrast with my WSM paint, but not too dark that I'd lose detail

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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #25 on: 19 May 2021, 12:36 »
Those powder coated Santiago's on your white GTi look fantastic. Reckon they'd look great on my Tornado Red GTi, anyone have any photo's of such a combo? What's the exact colour?
Was a couple of years ago, think it was called black chrome done by Danum alloys in Doncaster

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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #26 on: 16 June 2021, 17:01 »
Update.... I went Powder Coat!








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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #27 on: 16 June 2021, 17:20 »
Update.... I went Powder Coat!

They look great and work really well with Tornado Red IMHO. Is the colour Smoked Chrome?
2020 Polo GTI Plus; Pure White, DSG (because they all are)
Gone but not forgotten;
2016 Polo GTI; Blue Silk
2011 mk6 Golf GTD; Carbon Grey
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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #28 on: 16 June 2021, 17:37 »
I'd say they were Smoked Chrome as this is what I decided on and what they look like to me, but the company that did the refurb call it "Bling"!

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Re: Diamond Cut Refurb or Powder Coating?
« Reply #29 on: 16 June 2021, 19:40 »
Very smart looking!
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