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does any body know why wheel covers seem to be always coloured silver, only just bought a black car, thought black covers would suit better, espiecally given that they get filthy black from brake dust.
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does any body know why wheel covers seem to be always coloured silver,
To mimick alloys?
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Nothing to stop you having them sprayed black.
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They're cheaper to produce in just one colour. At one time wheels used to be painted in a colour to suit the body colour until someone came up with the idea that silver would go with any body colour. (I understand that an assembly worker got a payment under a suggestion scheme for this.)
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I've thought too that black or dark wheelcovers would look better than silver ones.
A lot of wheel covers (and alloy wheels too) are style disasters. Too many designers make fussy, over-styled designs when simple and functional usually looks best, like on Audis and VWs.
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IMO black-painted alloys look awful. Because they absorb light as opposed to reflecting them, you can't really see the design and they have little impact. You might as well just have a matt-black steel wheel. Still each to his - or her - own.
Wheel covers. Yes, well they're designed to ape alloys because we're all so style-conscious. The cheapo after-market ones are universally gruesome, designed by a bloke with no interest in cars or talent for, er, design. I'm afraid I remember the days when all new cars except exotics had steel wheels (silver but maybe cream - ugh! - in the case of BMC) with chrome hubcaps.
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Black wheel covers, might as well take em off completely.
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Just look at a car with steel wheels, but no wheel trims. Compare this to a similar car with silver wheel trims. Enough said.
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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
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My first car had silver painted steel wheels with just a central hub cap to cover the wheel nuts and bearing cap. The hub cap was chromed with the old Ford symbol, the silver painted wheels never corroded while I had the car (it was 21 years old by then). Looked much better than black steel wheels with tatty plastic wheel trims.
StarGazer
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