Wheel colour on a grey car
- Thread starter Pondrew
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Mr Tidy said:LeeZ4MR said:
It does to me too!
I removed the all too predictable CSL Reps from my Silver Grey car as I managed to buy a set of 224s and was torn over what colour to have when they were refurbed. Went with Silver in the end as it was about the only colour they could guarantee to match, and now I'm glad I did.
I've always really liked the style of the 224s as well. 8)
tomscott
Lifer
sars said:tomscott said:
I love the look of those rears, proper meat on that tyre, looks the business
Fronts are meh, practically every other Z4 coupe has them
On the forum maybe, in real life I dont think ive ever seen a set of real CSLs on a Z other than a car show.
Im not a big fan of 224s. Too basic, 5 spoke just doesn't suit the rest of the look of the car.
I will admit the 35mm drop on the rear does help make them look better but it wasn't much good for my back :rofl:
I have a bit of a brake fetish, so the more simple the wheel is...the more I get to see the brakes I reckon!tomscott said:sars said:tomscott said:
I love the look of those rears, proper meat on that tyre, looks the business
Fronts are meh, practically every other Z4 coupe has them
On the forum maybe, in real life I dont think ive ever seen a set of real CSLs on a Z other than a car show.
Im not a big fan of 224s. Too basic, 5 spoke just doesn't suit the rest of the look of the car.
I will admit the 35mm drop on the rear does help make them look better but it wasn't much good for my back :rofl:
tomscott
Lifer
Mr Tidy said:
Ye and you can spot reps a mile away. I bought my OE CSLs of a guy who was tracking his M3 CSL so went for even lightweight wheels so managed to pick them up in about sept 2011 and kept them ever since.
I think the CSL is one of the best designs ever made, that double dish!! Love the look on both my coupe and roady. Just a shame they have been copied to the end of the world but as they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
tomscott
Lifer
Pondrew said:tomscott said:
There is an irony about waxing lyrical about "OE CSL wheels" on a car which they were never offered on as OE.
The reason I say OE is people just state CSL when the replica quality varies hugely. The Z4M has the same underpinnings of the M3 CSL. They may not have been on the order sheet but there was no reason why you couldn't order them when you ordered your car.
At the time being an M project car there wasn't a huge amount of information about these cars out there. Easy to say 12 years later I suppose but what a lot of us were doing back in 2010 and 2011 has set the standard of what an OE+ car could look like hence why its been copied so many times but back then there were no cars with CSLs and the like.
Just have to google Z4M Coupe, a dozen images of my coupe come up in the top 50.
Someone has even made a mug out of an image of my car... its ridiculous
https://pitstopbits.com/products/bmw-z4m-coupe-mug-in-silver/