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YOUR RESEARCHTo, or to not powder coat my wheels?
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Have you checked the back of the wheels to make sure they are the Porsche ones and not the Italian copies?
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I�m not 100% convinced I like my turbo twists dark grey. My center caps are silver. Does this mean the wheels were originally silver too? Just bought the car last month from a dealer in CO so no idea if these are the original color or not. I�ve attached a pic of mine with another C4S with silver tts to compare. Thoughts?
My taste - no on the darker wheels.
I'm kind of a purist, I think unless you make it a total track car, stick with original colors for the year of the car.
The Porsche wheel catalog for the 996 didn't have any options for dark painted wheels. All of them were silver. Therefore, your turbo twists were obviously painted by the previous owner. I personally like the darker wheels, but you should paint the center caps to match.
My bad, go back to the original color. The dark gray is not so great. Painting stock wheels different colors is ghetto . I didn’t read the post. The Oem 4s caps were not painted for whatever reason.
Thanks. I figured as much. Yep, I'm going back to stock silver when it's time for a new set of tires. The dark grey also makes the wheels appear smaller.
Have you checked the back of the wheels to make sure they are the Porsche ones and not the Italian copies? the copies come in several colors including some bright colors so I see them out here every once in a while.
I hate powder coat it has never held up for me... I prefer Dupont Imron..
I have not. I�ll pull a wheel this weekend. What am I looking for? Some kind of Porsche stamp?
I�ll have to Google Imron but I am a fan of your posts. You definitely know your Pcar stuff.
I'm a generalist,, most of my life I've played with race cars of many flavors,, so a lot of it is from hard lessons.. Track guys can be total cheap a**es and I've had to recover cars from their care.. LOL
On the silver I like the stock silver look. I like those twists more than my earlier ones, it’s a good look. Personally think I might do mine is a gold or bronze color which I think would contrast well with the blue metallic.
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