Time for a wheels update
I wasn’t entirely happy with how bright the copper paint came out on the MX5 Enkei daisy wheels for the Daihatsu and its been at the back of my mind for a while that a darker bronze colour might suit them better. I was going to go for Volks/Rays racing bronze, but a discussion on another forum led me to look at Fiat ‘Marron Volcane’ instead. As luck would have it, WLW paints on ebay were able to make me up a can and send it out for under £14 so I had a trial run to see how it’d work out.
I masking taped off one tyre and aerosol’d over the copper
it was just a quick 2 coats to see how it would come out, its closer to what I had in mind so I tried out fitting it to the car
Fits over the calipers fine, despite being a 14" wheel (the standard ones are 15") but im not convinced. I think the tyres are too low profile and don’t fill the arches properly which makes it look weirdly proportioned. I think it needs to either have tyres with more sidewall, or to be lowered and/or have spacers fitted to allow the wheels & tyres to fill the arches more. I’m also not sure that the colour contrast really works. Maybe the silver on the boadywork is too purpley but it doesn’t seem to work as well in the metal as I was hoping.
I’ll have a think, but I might just sack the idea off entirely. Maybe I’ll do one more go with some aerosol wheel silver paint and see what they look like then go from there.
On the plus side, the colour is great. Anyone looking for bronze wheels - I can recommend Fiat 750F ‘Marron Volcane’ paint from WLW!