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    16" Perfo's - What colour do you think?

    I'm going to be re-spraying my Perfos this week (can't afford a 'proper' refurb, but had such good results on my lasses Golf BBS alloys I'm happy I can DIY to a good standard).

    Question is, should I stick with stock and just re-do them in silver, or go for gunmetal grey? I'd quite like the idea of spraying them grey/charcoal as this really looks nice on Titans etc, but on Perfo's, I dunno.

    Anyone else running about on Perfos in grey? Would be interested in your opinons and comments.

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    Volvo did actually make some Perfo's in the anthracite

    i think it depends on the colour of the car, dark colour needs silver wheels & a light colour needs the dark wheels

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    Agreed

    Depends on the colour of the car really

    Ive seen a silver 855 with dark perfo's and it looked " OK " not brill but different



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    Cheers for the comments - yeah should have mentioned my car is 'turbo red' (that's the metallic maroon colour like this one I just dredged off the net)

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    ah same colour as mine, i'm doing my alloys white

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    IMHO the perfo's look horrible in a dark colour ide stick with bright silver With the perfo's theres too much area to be dark.

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    Here's my Grey Columba's (pretty similar to Perfos) on my motor.



    She's was looking good after a Lake District valet !

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    Quote Originally Posted by nobananas View Post
    Here's my Grey Columba's (pretty similar to Perfos) on my motor.



    She's was looking good after a Lake District valet !
    They look quite good IMO, almost graphite....
    In fact the same colour as stock after a couple of weeks with DS pads..lol
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    Ah, the same colour as mine then. If it was me (and I do have a set of Perfos sitting in my shed, so I might), I would go for a dark grey/anthracite. White is wrong on our colour of car, and so is black. Silver is fine, but for something a bit different......but not stupid......grey all the way!


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