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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / April 2006Disco 1 cosmetic question
This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. I'll be mounting a HF antenna on the front bumper and inside will be an ICOM IC-7000 HF/VHF/UHF radio. I bought a set of 5 Wolf XD steel wheels with the intention of mounting Goodyear MT/R tyres. I want to paint the wheels Landie white, my wife says silver, my daughter [the one with the Jeep who plans on trading it for a Freelander] says black. Any comments? -- Jeffrey S Austin Chesapeake VA > This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB > bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Any comments? Not black is what immediately springs to mind. Beyond that I'd suggest silver on a Disco, or limestone on a Series or Defender.  SignatureEMB >> This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB >> bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >Not black is what immediately springs to mind. Beyond that I'd suggest >silver on a Disco, or limestone on a Series or Defender. Black wheels dont show the dirt as much. >>>This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB >>>bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Black wheels dont show the dirt as much. Common misconception. Black shows the dirt just as well, or more so - if the paint job is shiny, the dirt dulls it, if the paint job is matte, well, the dirt just shows. Besides which, mud is rarely matte black itself! Stuart >> Black wheels dont show the dirt as much. > >Common misconception. Black shows the dirt just as well, or more so - >if the paint job is shiny, the dirt dulls it, if the paint job is matte, >well, the dirt just shows. Besides which, mud is rarely matte black itself! On my cars black definately works better. The 2A has white 8 spokes on - When they were new and shiney they looked good. As soon as they got some dirt on and the odd bit of rust (took a week or two) they look crap The black steelies I used to have on my car always looked black - dirty or clean. Brake dust and general road dirt is usually black (or very close to!) - the silver alloys on my car tend towards black as they get dirtier, so i'd go straight to black wheels. > This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB > bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Jeffrey S Austin > Chesapeake VA Purely from an aethetic point of view silver rims and black bosses - we were discussing it last week ( me and my new wife) and found a picture online of a disco on alloys painted similar and I think ours is down for that idea after I get thru welding. Derek ( if you want to see the image email me - removing the spam reference first) >> This has to do with my Disco. It's Oxford Blue, will be having an ARB >> bumper/winch installed this summer as well as a different rear bumper. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > ( if you want to see the image email me - removing the spam reference > first) You got one then?(been on jollies ) Which bit you welding? Icky |
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