The Official Mk7 Wheel Thread

[Dutch77]

Saturday selection:

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Saturday bonus, Rotiforms and air:

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Sunday five:

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A clean set of BBS CH-Rs:

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While on red Golfs, here is a GTD running stock wheels that have been greyed out which IMO has transformed the look positively:

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Sticking to red, this time the BBS CI-R (not to be confused with the much cheaper SRs that frequent the thread):

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A front three quarter view of the same car minus the stickers and Toyo tyre work, your call on the front 'carbon' work:

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I felt like today's red streak should end on OZ:

[danielb_c]

I'm still struggling to find wheels that I like on LSG. I lean towards gloss black wheels, but they somehow look dirty the car. Have you seen any that look particularly good?

[Dutch77]

I'm still struggling to find wheels that I like on LSG. I lean towards gloss black wheels, but they somehow look dirty the car. Have you seen any that look particularly good?

I think gloss black does work well with LSG - one of the few colors that I still rate black wheels with.. funny how trends change.

One way to provide more definition to a black wheel is with a polished lip, as per this admittedly non-Golf, non LSG example I happened to have on file:



This translates to Mk7 something like:



That does require an aggressive drop to look right though IMO.

Surprisingly you can also consider bronze:



Pretorias are a great OEM upgrade, and while I have said early in this thread that LSG plus gloss black Pretorias are yum, I reckon the standard finish shows the wheel off much better:



One of my thread favourites was an LSG running Talladegas: