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      10-24-2017, 10:25 AM   #1
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What color should I refinish my 193m wheels?

Planning on repairing and refinishing my 193m wheels on my Alpine White 2007 335i Coupe, what do you people think?
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I'd be curious if you could perfectly match the OEM color from ferric grey. If you have a source/solution, let us know.

Otherwise, plastidip to your heart's content, alots of colors variations to choose from.

I'm a fan of bronze/gold on White cars. Black rims/dark rims are hard to appreciate the lines.
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Black

Go for black. It never goes wrong, especially with the white car.
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I would NOT do white personally. I just saw a 435i cabrio yesterday, white with white wheels. looked funny to me. I love black wheels and trim on a white car.
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Go for black. It never goes wrong, especially with the white car.
This, and specifically gloss black to match the trim all over the rest of the car. Stormtrooper look is awesome. I get compliments on my color combo all the time. Sometimes I touch myself while looking at it in the garage.
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I'd be curious if you could perfectly match the OEM color from ferric grey. If you have a source/solution, let us know.!
+1! I did it on mine and I love it. My paint shop was able to look up the paint mix from the code.



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+1! I did it on mine and I love it. My paint shop was able to look up the paint mix from the code.



those look great!
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I'd be curious if you could perfectly match the OEM color from ferric grey. If you have a source/solution, let us know.

Otherwise, plastidip to your heart's content, alots of colors variations to choose from.

I'm a fan of bronze/gold on White cars. Black rims/dark rims are hard to appreciate the lines.
This is totally a taste thing, but I agree on the bronze! I think it's pretty unique & looks really good!
I also agree on the plasti-dip option! I did the wheels on my old Tacoma "anthracite grey" (or whatever they call it) from Dip-your-car, & I thought they turned out really well! The whole kit was only like $60! Plus, I think it's a great way to test what you want...dip a color, then evaluate it for a few weeks...if you don't love it...go right over it with another option...repeat until you find something you want to keep. Then you could permanently do the wheels that color if you wanted to take that step. Plus, they have a million videos on YouTube about how to do it, unique colors they have, etc.
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I have 193M wheels, now I want that ferric gray! dammit! $600 from my local guy, not bad. That includes getting rid of all the curb rash
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