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Offline AndyG

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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #20 on: 02 May 2012, 20:57 »
JonnyG, have you two sets of wheels or did you get your factory wheels painted black?I don't see many Mk6 GTI's and even less R's knocking about,yours looks a cracker.
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Offline Mr GTD

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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #21 on: 02 May 2012, 21:04 »
Quote from: JonnyG on 02 May 2012, 20:27
I've really mixed views with the black wheels on blue Golfs

Looking at the car from a distance I don't like the black that much, and prefer the silver.

However when I'm up close to the car I like the black wheels !  It matches all the other black trim and looks good IMHO

Crazy I know  :laugh:  ... but I've felt like that for a few months now, having had both on my R 













Much prefer the silver ones tbh...
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Offline Murrayedition35

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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #22 on: 02 May 2012, 21:12 »
I really like the blacks ones.... :cool:
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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #23 on: 02 May 2012, 21:14 »
Owning a shadow blue with the charleston shadows and seeing it in all the lights, and this is a colour paint that changes very dramatically with different light conditions as you know.  I always wish the shadows were lighter.......

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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #24 on: 02 May 2012, 21:24 »
If my wheels ever get damaged,I'm going black.
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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #25 on: 02 May 2012, 21:31 »
oddly on a rising blue the black works better on a golf r rather than rocco, i think the silver 19s look superb on RB, all be satin anthracite for the win
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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #26 on: 03 May 2012, 20:30 »
Quote from: AndyG on 02 May 2012, 20:57
JonnyG, have you two sets of wheels or did you get your factory wheels painted black?I don't see many Mk6 GTI's and even less R's knocking about,yours looks a cracker.

Thanks .... I got lucky as just when my first set of tyres on OEM silver alloys were down to 3mm I found a set of OEM black alloys with original factory tyres (6mm tread) on Ebay.  The total cost was not a lot more than a new set of 4 tyres which I would have needed to buy anyway (and the 19" tyres are not cheap!)   The seller was fairly local to me, so I went to have a look and ended up buying the black set.  I polished them up a bit and stuck them on in January. 

I'm still undecided which I like best with Rising Blue  :rolleyes:     

I still have the silver alloys as well, which I will probably keep until I sell the car.
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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #27 on: 03 May 2012, 21:45 »
They both look good but I prefer the Silver which look much bigger.  :drool:
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Re: Views on black wheels on Shadow blue GTI
« Reply #28 on: 10 May 2012, 21:48 »
no thanks
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