what colour wheels

**lillico** · Monday 16th July 2012, 17:36

Well im nearly there...

All trims have been smoothed and painted, front end off 2006 modified headlight loom to suit.

Completely resprayed in original black metallic.

Debadged black grill, debadged back.

Interior stripped cleaned put back, dolby headunit removed double din dvd installed in dash with flip down lcd in back.

Wheels going to be done this week, nit sure either to do them silver or anthracite?

There 18" oz wheels....brake calipers want to re finish gold, red, black, silver?

Any suggestions welcome

**stribo** · Monday 16th July 2012, 17:49

Orange

**lillico** · Monday 16th July 2012, 17:50

Nice!!!

**WHITE999-T5** · Monday 16th July 2012, 18:13

Why not try a burnt orange look, not too dark but not in your face either.
The nice summers evening look, with a mid anthracite calipers to set it off.
If you look about you can get a slight orange tint for the rear windows if that floats your boat to tie in the look.
I have a white V70 which the windows are 80% tinted and getting some 17" dark Anthracite Saturns to tie the look in.
Will finish it off with a black wire grill.

Hope this helps in some small way.

**Wally Dog** · Monday 16th July 2012, 18:25

Personally, I'd go for a lighter colour on a dark car but I have seen some Anthracite look good on a dark green.

As for the calipers, silver and red are the only other colours you have on the car, coz of the lights.

I'd go for the red calipers behind a darker silver for the wheels.

**the young mechanic** · Monday 16th July 2012, 18:27

matte black wheels
red calipers

**V70R_pie** · Monday 16th July 2012, 18:33

Silver

**Santa** · Monday 16th July 2012, 18:35

The weird effect MartinRPeachy did to Sharky's wheels.

**M-R-P** · Monday 16th July 2012, 19:04

Originally Posted by Santa

The weird effect MartinRPeachey did to Sharky's wheels.

Maybe over gunmetal, rather than black tho?

**V70 Graham** · Monday 16th July 2012, 21:22

Originally Posted by martinrpeachey

Maybe over gunmetal, rather than black tho?

Would look good me thinks.

**d2k** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 16:10

Originally Posted by V70 Graham

Would look good me thinks.

lol..... watch this space, that's EXACTLY what martin is gonna do to this set of nebula's.

forget the pegs..... the nebs in *gunmetal MRP style* will look the dogs doo da's!!!

**M-R-P** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 16:30

Hell yeah

**V70 Graham** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 16:39

Quick, copyright MRP Black

**M-R-P** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 16:41

If by "copyright" you mean "Hunt 'em down and spray their car gay blue" - I'm already on it

**lillico** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 17:14

Thanks for suggestions..

Not particularly brave so gone for a lighter shade of anthracite.

Still not sure about calipers yet

Got the black badgeless grill on today thinks it may need a little something extra? Carbon volvo badge offset?

**oblark** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 17:17

Originally Posted by lillico

Thanks for suggestions..

Not particularly brave so gone for a lighter shade of anthracite.

Still not sure about calipers yet

Got the black badgeless grill on today thinks it may need a little something extra? Carbon volvo badge offset?

Carbon effect prancing moose badge

**lillico** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 17:26

Originally Posted by oblark

Carbon effect prancing moose badge

Where can I get one of those? Is it a badge soDi I can put it on the grill?

**oblark** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 17:31

Originally Posted by lillico

Where can I get one of those? Is it a badge soDi I can put it on the grill?

I think d5kerry makes then. This thread was running a few weeks ago.

http://www.vpcuk.org/forums/showthre...ng+moose+badge

**Harvey** · Tuesday 17th July 2012, 17:37

Originally Posted by d2k

lol..... watch this space, that's EXACTLY what martin is gonna do to this set of nebula's.

forget the pegs..... the nebs in *gunmetal MRP style* will look the dogs doo da's!!!

I think copyright it's more like copycat MRP style I bet there will be more wheels with his finish on as they do look good.

**S60-UUB** · Thursday 19th July 2012, 09:56

Nice looking bus.

Can I ask how much effort was it to take the trim off smooth it and repaint? was thinking about doing mine as it faded quite abit.

I've recently had my 17's done Renault gunmetal grey with a bronze metallic.