Wheel color ideas

I am putting the snow tires on the Fiat this week, and in the spring I will need new wheels. The wife and I both like this one, but I am thinking it would look good with the center in off white to match the interior. Are there any other colors we should consider that would look good with the green? I think I want to do something besides gray or silver.

What Fiat and what color exactly? You still only have the Cavalier in your rides.

I need to update it. The wife has the Green 500 in the picture, and have moved up to a sweet 2002 Malibu

I'd leave the color on the wheels the way they are. Wheels look good!

Ronal Teddybear's should be left in the normal "alloy" color.

DukeOfUndersteer wrote: I'd leave the color on the wheels the way they are. Wheels look good!

+1.

White could look ok, but there would need to be some other white parts on the car besides the interior.

Perhaps I am just too far into the current "culture" but I go red, leaving the rim silver. (and I would use plastidip, in case I wanted to go back.)

sing it billy joel style, you love them just the way they are.

Anything but this.

I am not showing it yet, but check out the Rustang at the Challenge

I thought everybody was doing wheels in flat black Plasti-Dip. Or was that last year?

GOLD. MOTHERberkeleyING GOLD!

mndsm wrote: GOLD. MOTHERberkeleyING GOLD!

This or a darker bronze would look good with that green.

I like them the way they are but it's the wife's toy and she wants to be different

Another vote for dark bronze.

Ah I see now, the FB pic didn't load for me at first.

I'll say +1 for dark bronze.

I want to see the car with those wheels on them when they're mounted, no matter the color. Those wheels are such an iconic, classic style I'm very interested to see how they look on a modern interpretation of an iconic, classic car.
Ignore mndsm, he's trying to get everyone to paint their wheels gold

Wally wrote: I like them the way they are but it's the wife's toy and she wants to be different

Whatever color that she says/wants/thinks about...

How would red wheels look on a black hatch ?

iceracer wrote: How would red wheels look on a black hatch ?

Take a look at a black Abarth.

I'm a huge fan of dark bronze lately, but I'd do the whole wheel off-white to match the interior. I think that green is a great color btw!

Wally wrote: I like them the way they are but it's the wife's toy and she wants to be different

In that case, since the color is so... residential... go to a home center and find a paint sample that's a near match... then start looking at paints that she likes to go with them.

Wally, can you post a pic of the car's interior through an open door? I can't get a feel for the interior/exterior color combo to make a suggestion.

Depending on how nuts you wan to go with the project, I'd shoot the spokes and the ring they are cast into something to match the interior, and do a pinstripe in the exterior green on the outer part of the rim, just inside the lip. If the scorpion in the center cap is either raised or recessed, repaint the red the same green as the pinstripe.

Orange or Red Orange would really pop with that green.

I can't figure out how to post pictures from my phone but the interior is dark gray cloth and the dashboard has a large panel painted green to match the body, and the wheel, radio, hvac, instrument pod, and tops of the seats and ivory. I like the green pinstripe idea for the rim. They have other center caps so I am probably getting ones with the Fiat logo in them.

She also showed me a few other bits she wants for the car. So far she talked me into putting on a $200 gas cap and rain guards on the front windows.