Pic or Photo Shop request for Platinum Grey

[Syndicate]

Hey all,

Have tried Search and google for pics of a Platinum Grey X5 with the 215 wheels. Was hoping to see the different colors available (ferric, black, silver).

The other search was for a darker color on the 214 style wheels, again on a platinum grey car.

I did a search for wheel weights, and 80lbs with run flats is just obscene. What lighter weight 20''-21'' wheel/tire combos are you all running?

Thanks,

[barbja]

Here is a photoshopped image of platinum grey + 215s. I also have 300M, 227M, and 259 if anyone wants to see.

[Syndicate]

That's brilliant! thanks. Sorry to bug you, but any chance we could see those wheels in black?

Thanks again.

[barbja]

Here you go. The good side photo of the 215 blacks that I found was on an all white background, so I had to fill them in. You don't get an essence of the shine through of the brakes from this rendition. Mostly what you can get from this photo is the shape and the 'darker feeling' than the other photo. They don't look too bad in this photo.

I couldn't find a good full-on side view of a more true-to-life black 215 to use. I've included two off-angle ones here to look at. You can see that the colors look TOTALLY different. These are both listed as black 215s. I don't think that the ones on the red car are Ferric Grey because the same lister is selling some FG ones also and they're definitely lighter. But who knows -- perhaps they got them both wrong.

It seems that most of the images that I could find were cut-outs of BMWs nicely photoshopped photos. I was able to find one real image each of the black, ferric grey, and sliver 215s. Black and FG in boxes, and silver in the sunlight.

From these photos, and my real PG car, it looks like the Black and FG are iffy; I would choose FG over the black. The silver definitely wouldn't clash, but if you're going to understated, silver isn't it.

I think that if you are considering getting black or FG, you would really have to see it up next to the car before making the decision.

BTW: I think that whatever is on the red car would look pretty stylin' on a PG car. However, who knows what's Actually on that car, and if it's a picture of a wheel/car that exists outside of cyberspace.

[Foxx]

Originally Posted by barbja

Here is a photoshopped image of platinum grey + 215s. I also have 300M, 227M, and 259 if anyone wants to see.

Would you mind posting the 300, 227 and 259? I'm shopping for new 21/22 right now. Thanks a bunch!

[Syndicate]

Great work barbja. Very thorough and helpful. Thanks for taking the time to help.

Cheers,

[barbja]

Platinum Grey + 259 (X6 wheels). These is a picture of 20" replicas pulled from the oemwheelsplus site.

[barbja]

Platinum Grey + 227M. 20" OEMs from alloywheelsdirect.net

[barbja]

Platinum Grey + 300M. 20". I can't remember where I pulled this photo from.

[barbja]

Personally I like the 227Ms the best. Usually I like simple wheels, but the 227Ms just speak to me for some reason. I've seen them in real life on a white 2010 X5M and they were awesome. However, they'd be a b*tch to clean and I don't think anyone has replicated them yet, so they're only available retail ($3000). So -- I don't think 227Ms are for me. My next fave's are the 300Ms in gunmetal (beauty + invisible break dust anyone?).

If someone has (or can point me to) a full-on side view of a wheel they'd like me to mock up, just let me know. alloywheelsplus.net shows a lot (but not all) of them. Here are a few: 336, 214, 239, 128. They sometimes have picture on a real car, but sometimes there's only a photoshopped one (a better job than mine I must admit).