Newbie with 108's Opinions please

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jakblade

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 Lincolnshire
Had my 2.5 si Zed for a few months now. The 108's could do with a refurb or changing. The car is sterling grey and to be honest the only thing letting it down is the state of the wheels. I like the 108 and think it suits the car well. I want to go away from silver and was wanting any opinions on colour combo's. Help please guys ...
 
IMO, keep it OEM. silver inners and polished lips.

My old car :cry:

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jakblade said:
Had my 2.5 si Zed for a few months now. The 108's could do with a refurb or changing. The car is sterling grey and to be honest the only thing letting it down is the state of the wheels. I like the 108 and think it suits the car well. I want to go away from silver and was wanting any opinions on colour combo's. Help please guys ...
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You're wrong. There's 2 things letting your car down - the 2nd one is that it cannot work out how to post pictures of itself, so you will have to do that for it. :)
 
They always look class in the OEM finish but they can also look good if you play around a bit :wink:

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We could probably offer better advice once the car has been seen on its shabby shoes :oops:
 
Sorry about lack of pics didn't have any on computer. Here's what I have, after a good clean and polish one evening. No close ups of wheels though. I like the first pic you put up mr.wilks. Not too keen on chrome and shiny bits though. Already got some grills to treat to a coat of satin black to get rid of chrome surrounds. I didn't want to go black on wheels...but that first set I like... now lets try some pics..

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Shadow chrome with mirror chrome powder coat rims is the way to go. Durable and suits the Sterling perfectly:

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...and an earlier variant with slightly darker smoke chrome stars:
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Nice looking motor Op :thumbsup: i did a set recently with a satin matt grey star for a forum member with sterling grey Z

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Very very smart indeed. Like the smokey ones, look nearly same colour as car... I have even more brain wracking to do now.
 
Yes - under, certain light smoke chrome does nearly match the body colour. In so doing it creates a very clean look.

The oem silver looks a bit bling on sterling
 
mr wilks said:
That is some impressive polishing Terry :o what are you using ?

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I've polished a few cars in my 48 years but this takes some beating!! :thumbsup:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-Rosa-Polish-Ltr-Bottle-80345-/181515140751?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item2a43253e8f

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/3M-Perfect-it-III-Triple-Polish-Compound-Set-Fast-Cut-Extra-Fine-Ultrafina-/291166268705?pt=UK_Car_Accessories_Car_Care_Cleaning&hash=item43cadcad21
 
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