Jag BBS Melbourne wheels - gloss black or sparkling silver?

[GrandadPhil]

Hello fello gents,

I'm in the process of tidying up my new (old) grey S-Type 2.7d SE and in doing so, I'm having the alloys (BBS Melbournes) refurbished professionally. I have a tough choice; Gloss Black or Sparkling Silver?

The car is grey and I've just purchased some absolutely beautiful red centre caps (PSA pictures). Which is why I believe Gloss Black is a good choice (+ the new jags look gorgeous in this colour scheme). However, with the classic look of the S-Type, would it look daft? Should I play safe with silver?

Does anyone have a grey S-Type with black alloys? Or have an opinion on the matter?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! 

Phil

(PS I'm 23 years of age) 

[Russ68]

Silver IMHO, I'm just about to redo mine and I'm going for silver 

[kpt]

My car is also grey. If it was me I would go for black but Matt finish. I had these on my last car and as well as looking great they were so easy to clean.

[GrandadPhil]

I went silver just to be safe really and they've come up awesome! 

[kpt]

Agreed they look great. Good choice so watch out for the kerbs and potholes.

[The Voices]

How about 'technical grey' from the XKR-S ?

[GrandadPhil]

I dunno, I like a good contrasting wheel to be fair!

[The Voices]

They actually look fantastic and 'original' in the silver finish, I was only 'thinking out loud' when I mentioned Technical Grey.

The various BBS wheels always look well on a Jaguar, not a fan of the champagne finish they offered on some models though !

[GrandadPhil]

Thanks dude! Haha I wonder what champagne looks like :p 

[The Voices]

We used to see a lot of S-Types and XK's with the champagne wheels, looked nice on certain colour cars but just make me cringe now !

Kind of an 80's vibe even though they were late 90's !

[GrandadPhil]

Haha I can imagine, I'm gonna have to google this like. I did consider gold haha.

[The Voices]

Oh no !

Not gold.

They are bad enough on an Impreza, especially if it is painted 'kn*bhead blue' as well !