Gold vs Silver ? a practical (yes, really) question about wheels

Gold wheels – just sounds wrong, doesn’t it? So I thought, but once someone mentioned that they look great on Porsches, I soon realized he was right. Porsche have apparently noticed too – they don’t use them on GT3s to make them go faster. Anyway, needing new wheels anyway, I’d pull the trigger on a nice set of gold O.Z. Alleggeritas except for one thing. A practical thing. I live in a city. So I parallel park. And there’s a lot of road construction and obstacles to drive around, and every once in a while, I scratch wheels. The 17s on my Pcar are fairly well preserved, but they’re 17s, which helps. The O.Z.s would be 18s. And scratched gold wheels must look pretty ugly, no? (I’m pretty sure what’s under the gold paint isn’t gold. Not when they weigh that much it isn’t.) And maybe worse, I bet repairing them is a real pain i.t.a. Or am I wrong??? Can I have my cake and eat it too?? Experience, insight, etc., would be greatly appreciated!

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I ordered bronze wheels for my black gm plastic car. Everyone I asked beforehand said bad choice. After the fact everyone ate their own words. Your car, your decision; I say go for it.

OK, 808Bill, so BBS solved the scratch problem. Looks pretty sweet, too! That's what I want. But I can't have it. I'm buying O.Z.s. You're not helping!!! (Forrest green?)

I'm not sure I'm adding anything from a practical standpoint. I had my wheels painted when I had them repaired (scratches, trued, buff/polish lip). I'm a little nervous that if I get curb-rash, obviously the underlying silver will show through, but I'm pretty careful about parallel parking, and they look so good, I figure it's worth the risk. Ignore the rusty bolts. I've since replaced with studs to make taking tires on/off easier. And, they look better as well.

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Not mine but I sure do dig it! Oak Green I believe.

depends how brave you're feeling. will you drive your new wheels into the kerb? Funny part of this is, no wheel finish is immune to this! I researched it and where I am wheel refurbs are going to cost �125 per wheel. (mine just have some old paint peel, not scuffed)

The question in my mind is which is better, gold or bronze?

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I was initially also interested in brozne. Seat is advertising the Leon Cupra in dark grey with bronze wheels and they look sharp. But on Tire Racks site, O.Z.'s Bronze wheels do not look good with many colors on a 996. May be bad imaging. May be because O.Z.'s wheels are "matt bronze". Who knows, but the gold wheels do look good.

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Yeah, I know no wheel is immune, alas. But while I'm pretty sure a scratch deeper than the paint will look worse on a gold wheel than on a silver one, without seeing such a scratched wheel, I'm not sure how much worse. And I'm also wondering if I'm right to worry it will be harder to match the color when repairing the wheel, and if so, how much harder ... .

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Tire Rack's preview system leaves much to be desired. I'd say look at Google image for a better sense of how the wheel looks in person and how it changes under different types of sky. Here's a clean image of the bronze on a black Audi under an overcast sky. What color is your 996?

👍🏻 Careful with the bronze colors, I painted wheels on my black 951 bronze and the second they got brake dust on them they just looked brown...doo doo brown