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Old May 26th, 2011, 08:37 PM
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Hi, i'm new to this but thought i'd ask..

has anyone gone gloss black on the wheel arches and side skirts, as well as the splitter on the front bumper..

i have a silver mini cooper s convertible with the black chrome worx wheels and think it would set it off pretty nice...


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Old May 26th, 2011, 09:32 PM
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Most people match the body color when painting the lower black trim.

Couldn't find any pictures of Gloss Black on Pure Silver only Dark Silver ...
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I can't tell if the car pictured above has Aero Kit side skirts but if it does I think it would look better if the body color portion wasn't painted over.

Here's a picture of a 2nd Gen MCS with JCW Aero Kit and Gloss Black lower trim ...
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Gloss Black lower trim on a Pure Silver car would look more pronounced.
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This is such a cool mod which is often overlooked, and is all the more impressive for being pretty unusual...

I'm a big fan of colour coding the plastic trim in body colour, but on certain colours I think using gloss black looks way better (often on lighter colours, and that is coming from someone who did their own PW/B car in body colour).
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im contemplating doing gloss black arches to my dark silver MCS as wen i bought the aero skirts they were already gloss back.. i had planned on colour coding but had no cash at the time and being the impatient c**t that i am i just fitted them on as is, and was quite impressed.. wen i get it done hopefully next month ill post up a few pics for u
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