Wheel Colour Decision

[willni]

Looking for a colour choice for my BBS, but don't have enough experience with the grey scale to make a proper decision. If anyone knows of any colours that play nicely with tornado red, please let me know.

The initial choice was going to be satin black but after putting the Brescias back on, can't decide as the bright diamond cut plays so nicely it makes the BBS seem lost.

[SRGTD]

At the risk of sounding like a broken record ; Anthracite or smoked chrome.

There’s a picture of a red mk7 GTD with the standard Nogaro alloys refurbished in anthracite in post #12 in the discussion thread at the link below;

https://www.golfmk7.com/forums/index.php?threads/new-gtd-owner-from-northern-ireland.345425/

[willni]

Anthracite is always a good colour, but just lacks any sense of pizzazz. I'm currently shifting through Rennsport looking at Porsche colour combinations, it's another level of anality.

Would be very temped by a very light gold, but would have to lower the car to pull it off.

Porsche Platinum Silver below: was another option

[davo245]

Looking for a colour choice for my BBS, but don't have enough experience with the grey scale to make a proper decision. If anyone knows of any colours that play nicely with tornado red, please let me know.

The initial choice was going to be satin black but after putting the Brescias back on, can't decide as the bright diamond cut plays so nicely it makes the BBS seem lost.

Brescia all day long nothing looks better on a 7.5 imo.
Black is far to harsh never looks good unless freshly cleaned and tyres dressed but only on white cars I think.

If you must go aftermarket I would go Silver BBS.

Be mad to take the Bredcias off I reckon!! It looks perfect 

[EB2019]

platinum silver is a classic look, and always works i think, but I like the white gold magnesium colour Porsche put on the big centre lock wheels, not sure if it fully works on red though. but I agree the black doens't look quite right imo

[clubsport]

The goldy hue Porsche use on modern cars is satin aurum (code OP9).

It's subjective, but looks a bold statement on a red car with black accents to me?

Personally I think the Brescia look right on the car, without trying too hard. (Mandy Rice.....)

[SRGTD]

Anthracite is always a good colour, but just lacks any sense of pizzazz. I'm currently shifting through Rennsport looking at Porsche colour combinations, it's another level of anality.

Would be very temped by a very light gold, but would have to lower the car to pull it off.

Porsche Platinum Silver below: was another option

Platinum silver looks really good IMHO; quite an understated colour, looks good on a Tornado Red car and would work well on the slim spoke design of your BBS alloys.

[joe6]

Brescia gets my vote. Black and greys blend in with the road. Silver a possible alternative?

[AGB]

Looking for a colour choice for my BBS, but don't have enough experience with the grey scale to make a proper decision. If anyone knows of any colours that play nicely with tornado red, please let me know.

The initial choice was going to be satin black but after putting the Brescias back on, can't decide as the bright diamond cut plays so nicely it makes the BBS seem lost.

I have a set of BBS FI-R wheels on my GT4 and they're Platinum and it's a great colour. My car is PTS Grey Black with PCCB (yellow callipers). I did think of specifying them in Pale Gold which is what was used in the 997.2 RS but wasn't 100% convinced for the cost. I think this colour is preferable to Satin Aurum which is the current colour choice from Porsche - which is darker and obviously satin versus gloss.

I did consider some HRE P101 wheels and was looking at them in Brushed Dark Clear. They have a colour picker << LINK with a variety of grey options which might give you some ideas for paint references.

HRE provide excellent service so if you asked for examples of customer cars - suspect you'd get somewhere if asking for Porsches in Guards Red as I don't see many Golfs getting these wheels! Frozen Stone or Stone Dark Clear might give you the accent brightness and be a good bridge between black and silver.

I'm not sure what you consider to be pizzazz but you could paint them bright yellow and go full Michael Fux (Google if this means nothing to you)... 

[willni]

Some great info folks, thank you. Admittedly satin black always looks poor in photos but good in person. I actually saw a carmine red 911 with satin black this morning which has nearly sold me on it.

I think best case is just drive to my local porsche and look at colours. I did work on a GT3RS with the Satin Aurum alloys and really liked them but needs a black car to work imo.

For everyone asking about the Brescias, they’re my summer alloys as I don’t like the salt around the diamond cut hence the BBS are for winter. Probably be better off with the satin platinum in that regard since black quickly turns brown with dirt.

I’ll probably flip a coin when dropping them down and that will be that. Unless there’s an epic colour someone knows of.