New car, new mods, now black wheels?
 

Hello everybody! I recently bought a 2001 Boster S with 50k mi on it, and have started to mod it and thought I would share. So far i have debadged it and this weekend I smoked the tail lights. Now im thinking about painting the stock wheels black, but am having a hard time finding pics, so i was hoping you guys might be able to share some pics of Boxsters with the stock 17s painted/powdercoated black, on a black car would be great too. Also what is the correct name of my paint color?
Thanks guys! here are a couple pics:

First drive:
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/...y/3127fdc5.jpg

after smoking:
http://i1247.photobucket.com/albums/...y/20da4fa8.jpg

Even gunmetal might look nice on a black vehicle .

Your car looks great, love the wheels. Does anyone have pics of the stock 17in "S" wheels painted black (or dark)?

Welcome to the Forum!
 

Congrats on the car!

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...-3-06018cr.jpg

Beautiful car! Your color should be Basalt Black.

I was thinking of doing the taillights also, but do not like the big contrast between the red and smoke. I imagine the contrast would look even more outdoors?

I just thought of this, but maybe a dark smoke on the upper portion and a very light smoke on the red portion would look decent? What are your thoughts on this?

These are standard 03 face lift Boxster wheels, and I wish I could change the colour of my Boxster for you to see the full effect of the rear light cluster.

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...kwheels002.jpg

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...verssensor.jpg

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/p...icebackend.jpg

Guvs.

check the paint code on the sticker under the hood. it's probably "metallic black" vs. black - it'll seem to have a little "sparkle" to it. there's another similar called basalt black which is code LC9Z.

* Black = L041
* Basalt Black = LC9Z
* Black Metallic = L744

The pic of my stock 18":

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-6...2/IMG_8913.JPG

My advice is to sell the original wheels and buy (original) black ones.