Painting wheel centres

[Stuwey]

I recently bought the BBS wheels off of Golfman here for my GTI, which is candy white.

I wanted to get the centres painted a different colour, but alas there are too many options!

A friend at a crash shop has offered to do it for nix, but now i just have to make up my mind.

Do i paint them a darker, more "charcoal" colour, which may look a bit more purposeful, or get into the current fashion of a bright blue/green/red/whatever centre with the polished lip?


Any advice, opinions, or pictures would be really helpful.

[flyingfridge]

white over dark FTW



couldn't find a decent pic of polo so golf will do

[Stuwey]

Exactly. That looks kinda cool.

But so does this...

[Whubbsie]

It all depends on how much dish your wheels have, without some decent dish it won't look as good as the examples above.

[noone]

You can dissemble the centers, sand back and spray.

Personally I could not get VW centers for mine, so I popped out the Audi rings, filled and sanded smooth.

Go Black or colour code to your car

[Stuwey]

I'm going with blue.

[noone]

Oh yeah, BBS

That blue works well, I'd stay a bold or light colour. Black seems like a waste on those lovely rims (won't see the awesomeness)

[team_v]

I'm going with blue.

Blue looks good, not overplayed here.
I would see if you can get the bolts coloured as well for awesome matching.