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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: VXL V6 on 18 August 2016, 18:31:17
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It's a Ford Gold colour..... :-\
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Not chav...just another option,certainly a bit different,but different is good :y
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Sorry but it looks like Jimmy Saville`s tracksuit :-X
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Oh Dear...
Did they run out of Pink at the Shop.
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Not chav...just another option,certainly a bit different,but different is good :y
Your kidding me Ken.
By the way have you removed that Thunderbird's Fab 1 grill off your car yet. :P
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Did you do that for a bet ;D ;D
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Prefer original, but if you like it that's all that matters.
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All opinions appreciated - can't make my mind up, it looks a little darker in real life but I was thinking it would actually look a lot better much lighter - like a platinum gold colour.
I have one car with standard gloss wood, one with MV6 silver (although you could hardly describe the MV6 trim as star silver, it's much darker) and was looking to do something different with this car (Black car with black / anthracite interior), I've seen cars which have been trim wrapped but it always seems to damage easily and struggles to stretch and fit in the handbrake recess, I also priced up the water transfer option from 'Wicked Coatings' (As seen on Wheeler Dealers) but that was £225 to do the lot - transmission tunnel, ashtray, centre console and four door trims.......
So thought I should at least have a dabble with painting and see what a hash I can make of it!
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Your choice,just because it's different doesn't mean that the purists are right :P and yes Chris the grill is staying,as I like it more and more each day and if people hate it then I just like it even more :P ;D Actually I might even try a gold one :P
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I guess I'd need to see it in the flesh, but currently, I'm thinking chavtastic....
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Each to their own ... but please tell me it's not contagious ...... :)
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Not sure I'm 50/50, But if you like it then that's all that matters.. It's better than the fake wood that's for sure. :y
Piano black would be my choice if I could be bothered to paint the fake plastic wood ;D..
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Unusual to see gold,,but after looking at it several times it is growing on me....would you do the door trims the same as may even things out a bit..anyway its good to be different. :y
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GET OUT. Go on. Leave. And think about what you've done. :)
Putting Fraud paint on a Vx. Disgraceful ;D
In my opinion it's a near miss. I can see where you were going, but it's not my bag. Try metallic anthacite for mor winz.
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Unusual to see gold,,but after looking at it several times it is growing on me....would you do the door trims the same as may even things out a bit..anyway its good to be different. :y
Yep done the door trims (well, just need to buy more lacquer to finish them off 100%) but wasn't going to take the door cards off to swap the trims over until I could decide if I liked it or not!
One thing is for certain, I won't be re-fitting any fake wood trims, one car with fake wood is enough!
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Have to say that anthracite looks great, adds a deeper dimension to the interior. Vauxhall mistral grey (a la Astra GTEs) is perfect for this, smoke grey is too (early Omegas) I did the door trims and heater vent surround, complemented with the fake wood it worked very well on a FL.
The gold's not for me, but absolutely each to their own, and I offer you a wee bravo for trying it, people can get too closed-minded with car mods, well worth a go. :y
However.. smash your little chap on the workbench with a hammer for using Frod paint! :y :D ;D
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Body colour or strong contrast will always work :y
If it has to be gold, then a satin bronze or copper perhaps :-\
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not a colour i would have picked but stands out well :) ive done mind in diamond stitch leatherette
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Body colour or strong contrast will always work :y
If it has to be gold, then a satin bronze or copper perhaps :-\
The silver trim as has the rest on mine has seen much better days and was thinking about this myself.
Problem is, my cars prestige blue so can't decide if it will be too much :-\
When I rebuilt all the brakes / suspension a couple of years ago now, I did paint the brake callipers in the same colour which worked out very well imho
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Sorry but that's chav, too much of a contrast for my liking
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OK, next option, very rare trim, never seen the ashtray, door trims or transmission tunnel trim anywhere before (it is a genuine GM trim and is a sheet of aluminium, not vinyl, wrapped around)
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That's lovely, puts the 'b' in subtle :y.
There are some astonishing and beautiful (if used well) vinyl wraps around these days.
Agreed on the above, copper, or a duller flatter bronze would work best if you want something in the 'yellow' spectrum.
I flirted with the idea of a 'smoked wood' as used on Jag XJR/XKRs etc but me and missus discussed it at length and both decided to buy new scatter cushions instead. :D
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Body colour or strong contrast will always work :y
If it has to be gold, then a satin bronze or copper perhaps :-\
The silver trim as has the rest on mine has seen much better days and was thinking about this myself.
Problem is, my cars prestige blue so can't decide if it will be too much :-\
When I rebuilt all the brakes / suspension a couple of years ago now, I did paint the brake callipers in the same colour which worked out very well imho
The Turbo Weasel also had 'OPC' calipers, and worked fine, becaise, after all, a layer of brake dust will obscure them if they do appear to garish. In my humble, Steve, for yours you could/should try the smoke grey like I did, or maybe some of the vinyl wraps as above. Blue in a blue car tends to, for me, move into 'chavtastic'. On smaller stuff, eg a Focus RS or soemthing it seems to fit fine, but for larger more 'luxury' barges like Omegas, it just looks wrong. Try googling images of interior of Mercedes, Audis, Jag even Bentley etc for inspiration for how they treat wood/leather/silver/chrome/graphite etc trim and its relationship with the 'base' interior colour. :)
In the Turbo Weasel cream interior, with wood, and graphite grey with 'piano black' accents worked rather well, I always thought.
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I would have gone with fords mercury grey, the one the sierra sapphire was
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That'd work. Much like MV6 (facelift) trim, its the dark shade that seems to make it work.
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I would have gone with fords mercury grey, the one the sierra sapphire was
Yes, but Frod paint in a Vauxhall was actually disallowed by the Magna Carta in 1215. That's why it's call the Magna CARta. :y
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I would have gone with fords mercury grey, the one the sierra sapphire was
Yes, but Frod paint in a Vauxhall was actually disallowed by the Magna Carta in 1215. That's why it's call the Magna CARta. :y
Next you'll be telling us it was written by Nostradamus ;D
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That would be silly. ;)
Though he did predict correctly he wouldn't write it :D ;D
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Chavvy chavtastic!! ;D
Nice job though, but needs a different colour. How about purple? :)