What color wheels for a red ef?

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:46 pm

Don't know about teal

big pipe · Post by **big pipe** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:54 pm

gold/polished lip

Spork · Post by **Spork** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 12:07 am

CleanGSR;167734 wrote:I personally don't care for red. My wheels were red when I got them and I resprayed them black. I think on an EF (especially with the black bumpers and trim), that black wheels really tie everything together.

I actually totally disagree. (a few of us have had MANY conversations about this in the past)
In my opinion, black looks like shit. There is almost no color combination for a wheel that I can think of that is as played out as Black with a polished lip.
Red does a much better job of tying the car together. With as much glass as EF hatches have, when you have tinted windows and black bumpers/trim, the car is dangerously close to being two-tone in appearance. Black wheels push it over the edge and make it look very bland. Red offers a nice 'pop' and helps the car keep an overall theme of Red with ACCENT colors... not Red and Black with miscellaneous other colors like chrome/clear, amber, stocklugnutswhichshouldnevereverbeusedwithaftermarketwheels, and -more often than not- rust.

With painted bumpers, its the opposite (this applies for color matching with nearly every other honda out there since they all have painted bumpers). Red wheels make too much red and you need a different colored wheel to balance the look.

and that lip isn't made anymore, and was heavily modified to fit his 88-89 bumper.

N2HIFI · Post by **N2HIFI** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 1:39 am

forcefed;167724 wrote:what lip is that

Password JDM cf lip aka j's racing replica, they stopped making that lip last year or so i had it for 3 years on two different cars. It was originally designed for a crx with the 90-91 front bumper and to fit my 89 ef bumper i just modified it just a little and it fit perfect.

jdmshit.com sells a version of it now but only in Poly-urethane

http://www.jdmshit.com/parts/exterior/EF9lip/

RSX-S HOTTIE · Post by **RSX-S HOTTIE** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 3:19 am

Spork;167863 wrote:I actually totally disagree. (a few of us have had MANY conversations about this in the past)
In my opinion, black looks like shit. There is almost no color combination for a wheel that I can think of that is as played out as Black with a polished lip.
Red does a much better job of tying the car together. With as much glass as EF hatches have, when you have tinted windows and black bumpers/trim, the car is dangerously close to being two-tone in appearance. Black wheels push it over the edge and make it look very bland. Red offers a nice 'pop' and helps the car keep an overall theme of Red with ACCENT colors... not Red and Black with miscellaneous other colors like chrome/clear, amber, stocklugnutswhichshouldnevereverbeusedwithaftermarketwheels, and -more often than not- rust.

With painted bumpers, its the opposite (this applies for color matching with nearly every other honda out there since they all have painted bumpers). Red wheels make too much red and you need a different colored wheel to balance the look.

and that lip isn't made anymore, and was heavily modified to fit his 88-89 bumper.

I totally agree with Spork here. Chris' car was hot! And those black wheels do look like shit to me too.

forcefed · Post by **forcefed** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:25 pm

thanks about the lip, and i myself have never been a fan of black wheels unless its with like a red lip

CleanGSR · Post by **CleanGSR** » Sat Feb 28, 2009 11:44 pm

Wow....this is the first time I've come across anybody that thinks my car looks like shit.....and 2 poeple within 3 posts. Oh well, I guess everything with cars is personal preference so no suprise.

Spork · Post by **Spork** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:14 am

I think you are taking it too personal... the pictures I have seen show that your car looks like it has a very clean body and you keep it well maintained... even if I don't particularly like black wheels w/ polished lips. I also don't like bronze wheels, and if someone says that that color looks 'great' on a car, I will disagree with them as well.

on topic: if you are looking for an 'off the shelf' wheel color, I think red and gold is a nice combo. otherwise I vote teal or green. Screw the 'christmas' thing, I had orange lug nuts on my black del sol... in autumn... and only 1 person made a Halloween comment.

This has always been one of my favorite ED/EF pictures:

Lime green doesn't make me think of Christmas

JustRob · Post by **JustRob** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 12:56 am

CleanGSR;168061 wrote:Wow....this is the first time I've come across anybody that thinks my car looks like shit.....and 2 poeple within 3 posts. Oh well, I guess everything with cars is personal preference so no suprise.

Everyone has different opinions, take 'em and move on. I personally like your car a lot and I'm glad you picked black over red as your wheel color choice. No need for an "EF" that looks exactly the same running around. The old school black center caps help bring it together for me. Most people slap silver 'H' caps on GT3s and completely murder anything the car had going for it in the looks department.

My last off topic post in here, I swear. LOL

Laino · Post by **Laino** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 3:04 am

go chrome!! no really i like all black on red cars