It can get very frustrating, trying to do everything to my best ability. Making plans and choices in good time is imperative, but some choices, usually about the less important items like cosmetics and aesthetics can be difficult to envisage. The trouble is, I’ll spend ages deliberating about something to eventually come to a decision, and then something will come along and shatter the plan I had so I have to start all over again.
I had recently decided, after reviewing numerous alloy wheel refurbishers’ websites, to have the 90SV/LSE rims refinished in plain silver. That would fit with the popular modern standard – the only non-silver alloys I have seen since the end of the Range Rover Classic are on the new Minis, and I don’t think their black or white alloys look as good as their silver ones. I commented before that I find matt black rims on LRs a bit too aggressive looking and black alloys with silver rims too synonymous with blinged up BMWs and Saxos.
Well, the “spot the difference” competition in my club’s latest magazine (BHCLRC’s Four Play) has photos of a member’s (Haylee, guessing by the number plate?) black Tdci 90 with all-satin black SV wheels, and it looks great. My photo shop attempts turned out to be very misleading. So, I decided, since my new wheels will need media blasting and powder coating from anew whatever colour they become, to give a few of the wheels in my garage a quick spray of aerosol paint (and I do mean quick – I didn’t even get all the dust off them, never mind prep the surfaces) just to get an idea of how the wheels would look in various schemes for real.
The results were very useful. The silver wheel (just Hammerite, so perhaps not the best shade of silver, to be fair) looked worse than in photoshop, but was acceptable. The satin black still looked a bit aggressive, but much better than I had expected. I also decided to try a silver rimmed wheel using the original LSE colouring scheme (just changing the green to satin black), having come to the conclusion that it was gloss black and chrome that I disliked on wheels, and that looked the best of the three. It will push the cost of refurbishing each wheel up from £40 to £50 (+VAT), but looks the smartest and the satin black will hide the rear axle’s hub cones better than the silver.
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