108's - Changing the colour

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cj10jeeper

Lifer
 Lichfield, England
I'm part way through refurbishing a set of 108's and already have a near perfect standard set of 108's on the Zed, so was thinking about changing the colour of this set.

The lips are now perfectly polished and will remain unlacquered, but with a quality wheel wax and the inners will remain matt silver, but what about the 'stars'?

I've seen a set done in black, but never in a different colour.

What does the panel think for a Sterling Grey? colour coded, just darkened to a graphite? Other wilder idea?

A few photos:

The inside and a standard 108 (pre refurb) and a couple of the car for you Photoshop experts as in that department my skill level is 'challenged'.

Cheers CJ10

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Superb idea. Be interested to know what they'd look like on your car in sterling grey. :thumbsup: Not convinced colour coding them to mine (Ti silver) will make much difference tho!! :P
 
Sure - colour coded to Silver would be too flat, but might work on grey. I'm really tempted as having them apart I reckon I can get the lot powder coated locally for about £50 to £75 in any colour. Nearly coded my old Ellipsoids anthracite before I sold them instead.
 
Go for it. Would be good to see and I'm sure you'd recoup the money on fleabay if you decided to sell on the basis that they are immaculate. :thumbsup:
 
Think it could look quite nice in the grey often thought if i had two sets of 108s would have one set in high gloss black on my T.Silver Z4.
 
I'm getting my 108's refurbed in the spring, I'm going for a sterling grey ( or similar) shade for the centres, and possibly for the whole wheel. I think on my black Z it'd look amazing.
 
A rough attempt here, not at work so no graphics tablet makes it more tricky.



any other colours you want to see?
 
Herminator said:
A rough attempt here, not at work so no graphics tablet makes it more tricky.



any other colours you want to see?
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That is actually looking the dogs bollocks. The calipers match the leather, the wheels the body colour. Very very cool. :thumbsup: Good job herminator.
 
i like the idea of a grey star, i have seen black and it doesnt look too good as its way too dark and visually makes the wheels look smaller as its such a strong colour. There was an anthracite set on BMAutosports web page under the used section and they looked amazing! well worth a look.
 
Cheers Herminator - so your day job is seriously useful for this sort of stuff.

I like them I think they could suit the overall look of the car that I'm creating

I'm perhaps also imagining perhaps a slightly lighter shade. Not a very good description but allowing the silver to show through a dark haze. In the same way black chrom isn't black. Go figure what the hell I'm talking about...lol
 
I think I know what you are getting at. I want mine to be a fairly dark grey, but with a goodly amount of spangly mettalic bits i......erm, know what I mean......christ, I'm talking bollocks now LOL.... I'll know what I want when I see it....
 
bigshurv said:
I think I know what you are getting at. I want mine to be a fairly dark grey, but with a goodly amount of spangly mettalic bits i......erm, know what I mean......christ, I'm talking bollocks now LOL.... I'll know what I want when I see it....
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Yes - the wheel still has to look metallic not just a flat shade of dark grey paint.
I too will know what it is when I see it...
 
A couple more versions, slightly lighter and the second is an attempt at slightly more "shiney/metallic"





Yup, I work with photoshop a fair bit and it's usualy to do with cars too, but I'm still learning as I go. But if you ask me to model a set of alloys... thats more my thing :)
 
Dark grey stars would look great on a black Z4. I have never thought Sterling grey was dark enough for dark wheels. If it was me i would do the stars a light grey with a bit of sparkle.
The worry is that you will dull the overall image/impact of the car. If you look at the z4 with silver 108s you get a real impression that they are BIG wheels on the low riding car. Be a shame to lose a bit of the impact.
 
I don't like the standard 108s but the change of colour makes it much better because before it was too much silver for me.
 
Cheers Herminator. I think I'll let opinions keep flowing on this one as there is obviously no 'right' answer. Next step might be to drop into a refurb and see what teh colour options are and what they look like in the flesh.

Hell I have so many 108's in the garage I could spray one up as a test ..lol
 
BMAUTOSPORT Had a set for sale that were graphite stars, they looked a bit lost for me but it would depend on the car they were on i think..
 
My brother had a set of M5 wheels on his E46 330 sport a few years ago and they had a nice colour, they may have been black chrome, very hard to describe the colour but could look really cool on the 108's.
 
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