Ive bagged myself a real cheap set of these that need a refurb but I'm not sure if I should refurb in chrome as is, go silver like normal alloys or go with a dark silver like bonnatti as its the same price no matter the color, £50 per wheel.

I may not even fit them and just refurb them and sell on as for £400 and needing 2tyres I dot think I've done too bad

Anyone got any experience and pics on this at all(posting from iPod so not really searched yet!!)??

gary [gazillio] did a set of 18'' in grey to match the colour of a range he was selling but it just didnt look right...i think normal silver would look best .. ... - .- -.




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Any pics King  Present :2008 TDV8 HSE
Gone Audi A5 2.7TDI
Gone Discovery 3 HSE
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If you are thinking of selling them, I would suggest trying to keep them as original as possible. Anything non original attracts a limited market.  No longer FF owner but still interested. Present car Jaguar XE
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Thats the worst wheel!

and the rest...



Thing is the chrome look is, well, BLING BLING... I'll have to see but im not sure i'll keep them tbh, harsher ride and all

Kingpleb, are you sure these are autobiography wheels? I thought these were land rover option wheels? Dan was selling similar ones (ball polished IIRC) and my car originally had these added by the first owner, sadly they neglected them and the dealer had them refurbed prior to my purchasing the car. Mine are now standard silver. Chrome is not a good look IMHO.

If you look at the last set in this link there is the style of alloy you have

http://www.duckworthparts.co.uk/landrover/...kages.html

If you look in my gallery there a some shots of mine which were originally chromed like yours but are now painted standard silver..

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King defo standard silver  Present :2008 TDV8 HSE
Gone Audi A5 2.7TDI
Gone Discovery 3 HSE
Gone Mercedes CLK
Gone Range Rover 2.5 DSE

Cheers Simon, heres one from simons thread for others,


Hmm, thats a bit dark for me i think...

GRR i hate it when people are undecided and im in that bloody boat now!!

Goos you mean shiney silver or the normal one thats not as glossy?

Cheers Kingpleb , stupid iPad wouldn't let me copy the bbcode to post the picture.

Would say that in that picture the wheels are quite dirty, silver finish when clean is brighter. Will get one out of the garage tomorrow and take a photo so that you can see how they actually look in daylight. The paint finish matches the silver of the centre caps

Still not convinced Simon...

anyone fancy photoshopping onto my car at all

They are not autobiography wheels but they are 2010 bright design alloys I had the silver finish ones about two year ago

Will, I did a "quick" self-refurb on the wheels on my P38, the colour is silver but a little darker than normal and if I'm honest, it doesn't look as good as a nice standard "light" silver would look (IMO!). If I were keeping it I'd do them again but as it will be up for sale shortly (guess what I've spent all weekend cleaning and fettling :rolleyes) I'll leave them as-is.

Conclusion though - a nice light, bright standard-ish silver colour!

(PS - think about how much better any car with alloys looks when you've just washed it AND CLEANED THE WHEELS!)

Yeah, I agree they look too bling in chrome. Any colour would be better  No longer FF owner but still interested. Present car Jaguar XE
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Well I've picked them up and am in the course of double checking the price to restore them as is one up a hit since I last had wheels done, about £10 a wheel..
They aren't too bright really, the curbing isn't too bad but the paint is really bubbling in places!! no wonder LR dare not cover wheels under the same anti perforation warranty as the rest of the body

Will post the pics up tomorrow but they are real heavy and could feel the weight of them in the back of the FF!! Still average mpg today has been 26.7 as got into the high 29's on the way down stick to about 65-70 but then Chelmsford roundabout obsession saw te drop to low 28's then climb to mids as I got out hut then free meeting up wih Rads(lively to meet you Dave an hope you are happy with the machines ) I then had to haul up he m1 to make it back in time to pick kids up and made it with 20mins to spare hut that saw the mpg drop to the above and maybe the weight as well. A 4.4 2011 was sat next to me on the m1 and then planted it, don't half shift!!