thoughts on black wheels on black cherry
 

got a black cherry 370z roadster a few months back. i've been wanting to do the black car/black wheels look for a whlie, but ended up with black cherry instead. the Rays are too beautiful to give up, so i was probably going to just powdercoat them.

anyone seen this before/have any thoughts on it?

Look like "Knight Rider K.I.T.T."

I've been thinking about doing the same to my Black Cherry Z.

Here is a pic of my Z I photoshopped to get the basic idea of what it would look like. I like it.

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p.../z-blkrims.jpg

Obviously, this comes down to personal choice. Since you asked for opinions, I'd say no.

My reason is that Black Cherry is such a classy, non-aggressive color that black rims would really take away from it. The silver Rays really compliment the color.

I saw my first Black Cherry 370Z in person yesterday, and it was gorgeous.

Ultimately, it's your car and your decision. Good luck with your choice! :tup:

Not my cup of tea.

I like it, BUT I also think you have to do the door handles, because they look out of place being the only silver thing.

Doesn't go. Black rims aren't for every car.

I think bronze/gold would look great on a black cherry.

This exterior color just doesn't go well with dark rims.

Naaw, just leave them silver! Those black coated rims go better with lighter color cars even then doesn't fit them all.

agreed
also agreed.



if you do go with black rims, I think you need to go glossy rather than matte against black cherry.

I think you need to stick to brighter colors like has been said already. I also agree that gold/bronze might look good with BC. It definitely is a classy color so you've got to choose wheels that work with that theme. Black is too aggressive/racer-ish IMO.

I actually think it looks good, if you get the right wheels though:

http://www.vossenwheels.com/Gallery/...0127132056.jpg

That does look good.

Matte blacking the stock rims on a glossy bright car looks dumb. You can only get away with that on solid colors. IE Solid Red or Chicane Yellow. And buy rims, don't paint the beautiful sport rims. That's an insult to the sport pkg option. Lol

true, i'd probably end up going with a glossier finish... was originally planning on matching the black metallic color. i'm at that stage where it's my last chance to get a ridiculous looking sports car before i have to actually mature and start acting profesional haha. i'll do some photoshopping of my own later and post the pics.

I have black cherry and as much as i love black rims, i wouldn't do it. The pics posted don't look too bad though. But i feel like in person it would look bad half the time, and OK the other half just because the black cherry color looks so different depending on the lighting. I really want to do gray rims but i feel like i will end up with the same end result and just stay with some sort of silver when i upgrade my rims next spring..

Those are bronze iirc.

Z_bro (spelling?) has black cherry painted rims, and those look good, because the rest of the car is cherried out.

I think that unless you're going to change out the headlights, door handles, side markers, etc, you probably want to stick with silver. But to each their own.

I stand corrected :tiphat:

great advice so far. i hadn't considered the door handles and such.

currently about to go grab some black cherry touch-up paint, so i guess i could do the wheels too haha. some kind SUV put two white dings on my passenger door. normally i'd line their driver side door with epoxy cement, but it happened in a church parking lot. what's proper etiquette for that?

Personally, I love it. This coming from a guy with a Black Cherry Z and piano black rims.

dAvenue, did you black out the door handles too? just curious.

I haven't touched the door handles, but I did replace the chrome badges with black pearl ones. It made a big difference. I've decided the only option for the door handles, if I do anything at all, would be to match them to black pearl.

http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1321067125http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1321067125http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1321067125http://www.the370z.com/attachment.ph...1&d=1321067125

Nice!

looks good

Black rims are overplayed! But they only look good on certain colors.

I personally like black wheels on lighter colored cars. But after seeing dAvenue's pics, I think it looks really nice on Black cherry. I also think gold wheels on Black cherry would be sick!

:iagree::tup:

Black wheels will work with black cherry. :tup: