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Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:07 AM
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hey yall, I've been readin the forums for months, but decided to finally post. I had 2 TCs actually (one my girls) blue and a red one, but she recently traded hers in for a Subaru Forester (ugh!), i wanted to take a dual picture, but dont matter hers was an auto neway, i got a standard...

so heres my question... especially to all the blue TC owners out there, wut kinda rims u think look the best on blue TCs? i dont think gold matches, but I havent seen too many good lookin rims that go well wif blue cars... so wutchall think?? any pics blue TCs?
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:13 AM
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Personaly I was going to powdercoat mine dark gold, or maybe a deep dark bronze.
I love it, esp on a darker color blue car. Like my scion tc.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:19 AM
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Which blue? The '05 Indigo Ink Pearl color, or the '06+ Nautical blue? A lot of people like gold or bronze wheels with blue. I personally don't. For me, black wheels with a polished or machined lip on NB looks GREAT (That's what i roll with).

If that's too dark for you, go with silver, gunmetal, or hyper dark.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:21 AM
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haha! I like your user name!
anyhow, whatever you choose, try not to go with too light of a color.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:25 AM
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blue sti's look sexy with gold rims~
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:34 AM
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dam only posted like 5 minutes ago and got 4 replies... i got an IIP blue 05', but i thought the 06 and 05' blues looked nearly the same, but then grey blue and purple look the same to me (color blind)... yea dark bronze like sti is kinda hot...

i love pho!~! ppl always like my username tag...
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 03:55 AM
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I actually like the way blue and gold/bronze look together.

and yea under certain lighting conditions IIP and NBM look very different. NBM stays dark where IIP would go very light.

I for one didn't much enjoy black rims on a dark blue car. i went with silver.

but heres a thread that is full of pictures of IIP tCs and rimsthe owners went with.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57026
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 04:08 AM
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Ideally, I'd go for a dark silver ("hyperblack" to some wheel manufacturers) with a nice polished-silver lip. I'm not a huge fan of black or gold/bronze wheels on the blue.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 07:12 AM
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there's another type of blue too lol, and subaru foresters are pretty good cars, hard one before my tC, really reliable, although it was a soccer mom car
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 07:55 AM
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White. white hands down takes the cake in my book. well black with polished lip is pretty sekky too. but depending on the rim itself aslong as the spoke isn't to wide white looks damn sexy. but finding the right width spoke is the hard part.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by CuRiOuSfIsH
haha! I like your user name!
haha.. how odd.. as there's an actual pho bang a few minutes away from my house..

and yes.... there's a pho king that exists... stupid me forgot my camera at home when i drove past it....

even thought there's king rd near my house... the only pho place is well.. pho bang as i had mentioned on that street... lol

bkac to topic.. a dark silver works... kinda like magnus mentioned... the "hyperblack"
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 05:28 PM
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i'm with gjpjr, i dislike the dark color car w/ dark colored rims.

I went with silver 5 spokes.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 05:44 PM
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I personally don't like dark rims on dark cars. I have a 2005 IIP and I think hyper light or silver looks good, although I'm diggin the bronze look too. I just think the bronze look seems like your trying to look like a wrx. I personally just ordered my rims in silver, as soon as I get them I will post some pictures in here.
Old Oct 1, 2006 | 06:35 PM
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hey now i dont like all dark rims on all dark cars. black on black is just plain sex.

but if/when i got a change out set of rims, i want them to be 17" gold/bronze or white.

i wonder... has anyone had the stocks painted/coated any of those colors.... i might just go take a visit to my powdercoaters with my stocks, might as well honor them by giving them a second life.... and it would also give me a good reason why they need to stay in the garage and not in storage....
Old Oct 3, 2006 | 05:19 PM
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great link to the IIP cult, i gave that a bump... still no pics wif bronze / dark gold rims on IIP TCs.... i think i may be leaning toward bronze/dark gold ... jus wish i could get some ideas...
Old Oct 3, 2006 | 05:41 PM
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I actually like the Mustangs aftermarket rims in dark gray on a tC.

If it fits, then I'd get 18's in a heartbeat.
Old Oct 3, 2006 | 11:29 PM
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try looking at the NBM image thread maybe there are some there.

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=100488
Old Oct 4, 2006 | 02:41 AM
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it is funny reading your post...had 2 tcs a blue and a red one...i wanted to take a dual picture, but dont matter hers was an auto neway, i got a standard...
well if you are taking pics...it really doesn't matter if it is stick or auto, when you are talking about the 2 colors....
Old Oct 4, 2006 | 02:54 AM
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yea i didn't understand that either......
Old Oct 4, 2006 | 03:18 AM
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here's an old picture of my car. IIP with 18 in gunmetal Aerospeed RS-GT



i really like them but if i was to change i would get hyper silver or light silver



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