Trying to decide which bronze...

Going on an MGM truck, tss wheels. Narrowed it down to these three.

Any thoughts? Feedback?

 

Swatches are so hard to determine finished look. Middle or lightest probably. I'm pretty sure the wheels will look darker than the swatches. YRMV

 

The lighter choice will look the most clean when dusty or with rain residue on it.

 

Even with glasses on my eyes have gone to shit cause those 3 look straight brown to me. The darker 2 looks like root beer. If I saw it rolling by bronze would not pop into my head.

 

From looking at these, I say the lightest one.

 

I spy a UPS logo I the background.. what are you trying to match exactly?

 

Yeah couldn't tell if the lightest was too "gold". Knowing they will look darker is good to have in the back pocket...

My dedication to a spotless truck waxes and wanes, good to know, small part of why I'm going away from black wheels.

You nailed it, two if them are rootbeer. That's good Info. I got 19 different swatches for a blind test because every wheel looked diff online depending on light.

Not really anything, the most popular powder coat bronze in this forum is chrome bronze from prismatic. Just looking for a not too flashy bronze color that works well with MGM.

 

I’d go Bronze Chrome if going stock Prismatic PMB-4124 w/ Casper Clear PPS-4005. (See first screenshot…different wheel type, but should be comparable to finish you seem to be after)…

If possible have them do a single wheel or piece of aluminum to make sure the finish looks the way you want.

I had wheels powdercoated on my Infiniti, and the first finish looked terrible—too flat and hard to see any metallic flecks/sparkle in them—see the original swatch I was looking at vs the flat gold it came out as.

Had them re-do them as a hyper black gold/titanium 2-stage to get the desired effect I wanted (basically powdercoated black, sprayed in the color, then clear coated) …see final image on car to see what I’m talking about (disregard missing center cap, since plastic and had to be sprayed/cleared separately and came in a couple days later)

 

Yep - that is the one. Didnt know about applying over a base coat. Thanks!!

 

This is really good advice. I had a set of wheels powdercoated for my Audi. Picked from the swatches exactly what I wanted and even compared the swatch against other wheels. Color I selected darkened by like 2-3 shades after the clear went on. It still looked good, but wasn't what I really wanted. A sample spray out would've prevented this issue.

 

I ended up going a much different route.

Porsche silver with clear vision top coat. Dropped wheels and powder off today. I couldn't decide on which bronze would make me happy and not be too flashy. Played it day with an "oem+" look.

 

Good call. Be sure to post pics when it's done. Should look clean.

 

I can't wait to see the finished product, please do post pics when done. I too have MGM and have always thought some sort of bronze/gold wheel color would look good, but have yet to find anything that I really like given what I have seen. It seems to me it's either to yellowish or not a really nice bronze etc. I never really thought about playing w/shades of powder coat...

 

As the saying goes " I know nothing" can any wheel be powder coated. Like my stock limited wheels? would look great in bronze on.
Smoked Mesquites
Colored truck

 

They absoloutley can

 

Will do, he should have them done tomorrow night or Saturday, a day to mount em and clean up my truck for pictures - and I'll get some posted.

 

thanks

 

Any updates?

 

bronze methods 701 bead grips ordered today ! 18/9 ... 25 offset

 

That offset will look killer!!

No not really, coster is behind schedule
Said he would get me a picture of the new color on tomorrow or wedensday. I'm not really holding my breath.

 

It's a Thanksgiving miracle!

The color will be more like what is shown on the back, lighting was bad on the fronts.

 

Nice!

 

Better pics. Will have to wait til after turkey day to mount them.

 

Cant wait to see them actually mounted. Very happy with how the colors work with eachother.

 

Most of my friends have this shade of bronze on their wheels. It's not too light and dark; it's in between. This color is getting trendy nowadays. Maybe you can check random brands like Black Rhino wheels or KMC wheels for reference.

 

Thanks for the reply - I ended up going the silver direction. Hopefully can get them mounted tomorrow. Couldn't decide on which bronze and didnt want to gamble. I went with Porsche Silver with a clear gloss.

I still need to decide what I'm doing for center caps, but the sik er should lighten up the MGM a little.

 

Ended up looking "fine". Maybe it will grow on me but not sure I love love it.

 

I like them, TRD Sport logo on the bed brings them in.

MGM is always a tough color to get complimentary wheels. If you decide you want to change them, I thought the First pic in the thread below with the TSS wheels (same as yours) and powder coated in MGM looked as good as any I've seen on MGM.

https://www.tundras.com/threads/wheel-ideas-for-magnetic-grey-metallic.81874/

 

Thank you - yours look incredible. Is your ratio a 55? They just look better than mine, cant put my finger on why. I'm going to color match the center caps then re assess.