Dark wheels or light wheels, on a gray, sport car? (best, rims)

[JanND]

Originally Posted by beer belly

I agree 100%....the Wheels play off the Trim in that pic. My opinion, it would depend on what you are looking for.....Sporty, go Black......Classy, go bright.

Perfect comment.

[hominamad]

I like the black wheels - I'm definitely looking for a sporty look. However my car has silver trim everywhere. I'm thinking the black wheels may look ridiculous with the silver trim. Going to try to find some photos online of that configuration. Thanks for the opinions! Seems like people are split down the middle.

[Roboteer]

Umm, round wheels.

[Me007gold]

I would go with a lighter color, silver, gold, maybe a light bronze.

While not exactly a sports car, imo dark cars tend to look better with lighter color wheels

[Coldjensens]

My daughter got a cute little Sonic turbo at a base Sonic price because the guy who ordered it with black wheels refused to buy it when he actually saw what it looked like with black wheels. It had been sitting on the dealers lot for quite a while because no one wanted a silly looking Sonic. My daughter was happy to accept silly looking as a trade for thousands of dollars in free options/upgrades. She says it gives her car character and it is easy to find in a parking lot because no one else orders a bright blue sonic with stupid looking black wheels.

Black wheels always make me do a double take, it looks like the wheels are missing.

[blktoptrvl]

Dark wheels visually detract from a vehicle that is not white, red, or yellow. Worse, because modern black wheels do not have chrome trim rings, they blend in with the tires in pictures and the overall effect is that a car has two large cutouts with nothing supporting it. Ugly - IMO.

This effect is even worse on a car with bright chrome trim as in the OP picture.

[burdell]

Originally Posted by OHNot4Me

Chrome all the way. Black just looks like you've lost all your hubcaps.

Yeah, I know, I know.

"What's a hubcap?"

I'd pass on chrome, if they gotta be shiny I'd prefer polished aluminum. Probably an age thing but the only chrome wheels I've ever really liked were chrome reversed with baby moons, but only on he right cars.

[Sunbiz1]

Everyone has black rims, copper would off-set that gray nicely.

[Blondebaerde]

Originally Posted by hominamad

I know this is completely subjective, but trying to take a formal poll here... I have a Daytona Gray Audi and I'm looking for some new rims. I'm pretty stuck - should I go with a dark color, like black or gun metal, or does the contrast of silver wheels look better with it? The rest of the car is not "blacked out" - i.e. it has silver trim, etc around it. What does city-data say?

The real questions you didn't ask:

1. Red interior? A: hell yes! Not much more stunning, looked at an RS5 in that livery couple years back and was hugely impressed. That one had titanium finish wheels. Saw an Ferrari F430 in that, too, but that's a whoooole 'nuther story!

2. Gray or metal finish wheels, as opposed to silver or black. I personally would match the TRIM.

But you did answer it, sort of, with the trim comments. Go with silver or something close, else might look a bit off.

I'll not steal your thunder with my own pics, but my black trim X-Runner (Tacoma) needed murdered-out wheels to go-with. So, that's what it has. Totally works, vs. silver or similar which is also stunning on black, if the trim is silver...that's a bit bling-y, the silver and silver trim on black, but whatever.

Good luck, it's subjective, but there's (an) answer.

[tla921]

My car is dark gray and had "chrome" trim around the grill and windows. I had the trim wrapped in black vinyl and put graphite wheels on. It looks 1000 times better IMO.

If your car has the silver trim and you plan on keeping it that way, go light on the wheels.