colour code my bump strips. yes or no?

[L9 GOW]

Hi all!
away to get scrapes repaired and painted at the bottom of my front bumper and was also thinking about getting the bump strips on the front and rear bumper colour coded at the same time!
do you think this will look good or do you think i should leave them as they are?
has anyone done this and if so can you show me your pics!
thanks for reading!

Heres a photo of the scrapes that were done by the previous owner before i put on the lcr splitter, and before i fitted coilovers!
no idea how he managed it as it sat higher than an old landrover!

 

[Oj 89]

Monochromatic cars, yes. Ovni Yellow? No mate, leave them as they are. Breaks up the colour a bit, makes it a bit easier on the eye in direct sunlight And IMO looks nicer.

 

[foster87]

ssssmmmmmmooooottttthhhhhhh em

 

[L9 GOW]

this was the car that gave me the idea!
does anyone have anymore photos of it?
who owned before it was sold?
was it a member on here?

 

[wilz]

Anthracite dude is the way forward not colour coding leave it to break up the yellow in my opinion,

yes it was a member on here it recently changed owners as the guy was selling it iirc.

 

[L9 GOW]

anthracite would look out of place IMO as my wheels are black and my windows are tinted!

 

[OliMonty]

I have an onvi yellow ICR and the bump strips were color coded by the previous owner. In my opinion I think it looks spot on but then I like clean looking cars with not much to distract the eye. Some think it breaks the car up so it really is up to personnel preference. Ive attached some recent shots of mine, going to be putting up a little project thread soon when I have finished everything I wanna do this year at least

Be aware though, onvi bump strips often fade at a different rate to the rest of the car....

 

[wilz]

Dude you was saying my car looked good,

god that looks spot on,

need to get my finger out and make some progress,

back on topic,

my car has anthracite bump strips and tinted windows i quite like the combe, saying that i don't have balck wheels, i'm refurbing mine in anthracite

 

[OliMonty]

Dude you was saying my car looked good,

god that looks spot on,

need to get my finger out and make some progress,

back on topic,

my car has anthracite bump strips and tinted windows i quite like the combe, saying that i don't have balck wheels, i'm refurbing mine in anthracite

Cheers Will, was going to keep it under wraps till it was finished but couldn't resist. I haven't shown the other side though which got the front wing kicked in by some random tw*t. Repaired on a budget so the paint match isn't great and the wing is now a different shade of yellow to the bonnet!? all about picking the right angles to photo

Should be painting my OZ's in championship white this month and put those decals to good use

 

[L9 GOW]

that looks good!
i would leave your wheels as they are and slam it!
not a big fan of white wheels

 

[s1l3nc3r]

Id say get em done onvi..do eet do eet now...olimonty not sure on white on yellow would be interested to see how it looks i no it works on red get that nice rally slag look...

 

[TJenkos]

I say leave them how they are

 

[ian_cupra]

just buy the black ones

 

[ebo007]

I have mine done but the car is red. Makes a huge difference to the car having the colour matched IMO.

 

[steve m]

You could always do them de-textured and shiney black.

 

[Crafoo]

Monochromatic cars, yes. Ovni Yellow? No mate, leave them as they are. Breaks up the colour a bit, makes it a bit easier on the eye in direct sunlight And IMO looks nicer.

I agree, too much yellow otherwise.

 

[Fl@pper]

just buy the black ones

+1

even if you do decide to paint em use the black ones

 

[OliMonty]

that looks good!
i would leave your wheels as they are and slam it!
not a big fan of white wheels

Well, wanna be a bit different so going white (don't like losing the detail of the wheel with darker colors and the fronts are seriously faded/pealing)

PS - It rubs heavily with just one in the back at the mo

Decided what your going to do bump strip wise?!

 

[Mat]

get black ones for it (from a 1.4 or 1.6)

 

[L9 GOW]

+1

even if you do decide to paint em use the black ones

are they better for painting?
was going to buy new ones to paint anyway cos if i don't like it i can just fire my old ones back on!