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Wheel colour on a grey car

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What colour wheels suit a mineral grey car best

Silver
39
62%
Grey
11
17%
Black
11
17%
Gold/bronze
2
3%
 
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Post by pvr » Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:40 pm

CSL on a coupe looks great, just doesn’t seem to work as good on a roadster though.
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Post by LeeZ4MR » Sat Dec 03, 2022 12:01 am

tomscott wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:47 am
sars wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 9:35 pm
tomscott wrote: Thu Dec 01, 2022 4:16 pm ImageBMW Z4M Coupe CSL & OEM Wheels by Tom Scott, on Flickr
I love the look of those rears, proper meat on that tyre, looks the business :thumbsup:

Fronts are meh, practically every other Z4 coupe has them :D
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! :D
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Post by tomscott » Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:52 pm

Mr Tidy wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 8:36 pm
tomscott wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 9:47 am
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.
There's a forum member in Surrey who has genuine CSLs on his Titan Silver MC, but that's probably the only one I've seen with them. Most of the rest are Replicas.
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.

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Post by Pondrew » Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:39 pm

tomscott wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:52 pm 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.
There is an irony about waxing lyrical about "OE CSL wheels" on a car which they were never offered on as OE. :D :thumbsup:
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Post by tomscott » Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:34 am

Pondrew wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:39 pm
tomscott wrote: Mon Dec 12, 2022 12:52 pm 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.
There is an irony about waxing lyrical about "OE CSL wheels" on a car which they were never offered on as OE. :D :thumbsup:
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

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Post by pvr » Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:37 am

You couldn't order the CSL wheels from the dealer as you needed a CSL VIN number for that. Easy enough to find, but you could not order those wheels from factory.
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Post by tomscott » Thu Dec 15, 2022 10:00 am

pvr wrote: Wed Dec 14, 2022 10:37 am You couldn't order the CSL wheels from the dealer as you needed a CSL VIN number for that. Easy enough to find, but you could not order those wheels from factory.
True but it depends which dealer you went to some would. Pretty sure you could order the M3 CS variants too.

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