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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 02:29 AM
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My xA is still on order, but I figured that I'd start modding anyway!

I just bought a set of Enkei wheels on Ebay (15" factory rims that came from an xB). I'm probably going to paint them because silver is a boring color, and I don't have the car yet anyway.

What color would look good on an xA w/ tinted windows? I mocked up a couple of ideas from a "borrowed" picture. The first one would be a color match to the IIP color:



I'm leaning to a gray or gunmetal color like this:



What do you all think? Any other color ideas?[/img]
Old Oct 5, 2005 | 02:35 AM
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Maybe I like the darker gray better:

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Blue would look crappy in my opinion. It's between bronze and gunmetal, personaly I like bronze:
Old Oct 5, 2005 | 02:57 AM
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BROONNNNNZZZE
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Old Oct 5, 2005 | 03:02 AM
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Bronze FTW!!!!
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hot pink!
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I'd say go with the gun metal. You might even think about going with black, you can go get them powder coated, for durability. I did that in my 99 civic's rims, it deffinitely set it off. Black looks great on the Blue car, that's why i'm thinking of going that way.
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