All black looks fine until you kerb one - the diamond cut ones hide a bit of kerb rash quite well.......

That’s a difficult one, without seeing the results first. Are the wheels already in your car and are you going to get the wheels refurbed anyway?

If so, I’d mask the diamond cut surface with masking tape and use a rattle can to spray the spoke innards on the front black and the rear grey and the answer should become obvious

Kerbing wheels Alistair! Not on my watch!

Good idea RM, very good actually... too late though... the wheels have never been on our car. They went straight to the refurbisher the other day. They'll probably have dip stripped, blasted and corrosion treated all of the wheels by now. They want a decision on the colour code tomorrow (they paint the whole wheel, inside and out, in your colour of choice and then they do the diamond cutting before lacquering).

So far the poll votes are 50% grey inserts, 50% black inserts.

Wonder if they could paint mix the inserts to be metallic Santorini black (as opposed to gloss black inserts) if opting for black instead of grey of course... OCD kicking in again... and breathe

It took me almost a year to kerb mine - then one day.......

Sorry pld, I’d not seen that there was a Page 1 when I posted my comment earlier

While I wouldn’t change away from my current preferences for 20” rims (but there are really good local and practical reasons for having those!), there’s no denying that the turbines look fantastic, in either black, or grey. But, now that I’ve seen them in the photo, with black inserts on a black car, it looks perfect. I’m voting black, with no doubts at all 👍

black inserts Ryan..  ... - .- -.




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Cheers chaps... one of the refurbishers had just finshed a small VW diamond cut wheel with black inserts and it looked spot on. So I'm confident they'll look good... if black is selected

Internet sample photographs. Apart from all silver looking wheels, it’s actually hard to tell the difference other than close up!

Diamond cut/ grey inserts:


More of a silver look:



Diamond cut/ black inserts:

Bottled it, played safe and opted for the factory grey finish... Partly based on the 3 above side by side images, partly because it's hard to tell if it's black or grey (due to natural light shadowing anyway), partly due to my 'keep it factory' OCD and partly for future resale appeal...

IMHO The Right decision  2021 L405 Vogue SE 4.4 V8 DIESEL ~ #17

Went to collect the car from the refurbishing factory today. They've done a cracking job of the wheels. Spot on in every way. First class refurbishers.

First impressions of the wheels on the car were... "oh no... preferred the ones that were on it." and "maybe should have selected black inserts over grey"

Think our car would definitely look better with turbines less mudflaps. Maybe that's it!

Left it with them anyway because there was the slightest of imperfections where they'd inadvertantly nicked a part of a rim fitting the tyre. Fair play, they immediately apologised and said they'd do it again. Very impressed. Top place

In the meantime, the original 22s can be pld118 cleaned ready for putting them back on the car

Oh no 😱

After all that effort I was hoping you’d love them.

They're really smart, it's just a totally different look from the traditional sparkly alloy silver grey finish of the style 5004s... I do think the mudflaps off would do the trick

I bloody hate mudflaps! They look on 405's!

Don't be too hard on yourself Ryan, i didn't like turbines on mine... They lasted less than a day on mine!

I bet they look awesome with black inserts ☝️👿🤣