sounds a good deal to me, you could pay £80 per wheel. (operative word here is
could)
Long version:
As a general rule you can tell a refurbed wheel up close, if you sit them side by side, in my experience the paint tends to look a bit 'thick' almost like powedercoating, and the shade / level of fleck in the paint etc.. varies. That said, I'd imagine that's down to the individual refurber, and who's to say I've not been looking at alloys that I think are original paint, but that are actually themselves refurbed?
Again, operative words in that lot are
if you sit them side by side You'd have to scrutinise. I dare not say 'silver is silver' as we know there are a hundred shades of the stuff, Vx Star Silver alone having three or four, with varieties within. But it's a wheel, not a body panel, so even a wildly 'wrong' shade wouldn't be noticeable unless you knew it was there.
That said, I did source as perfect a match for some Royale wheels once, including using a different shade of silver for the centrecaps. Thus giving the impression that I'd ran out of paint for the centrecaps, and just got any old paint - but actually that was how they came out of the factory. (using a brand new, still in the GM plastic bag centrecap as colour reference
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Short Version:
Yeh. Be reet.
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