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What center caps should I get?

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Old 11-23-2010, 10:44 PM
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Got the BBS wheels with the 70mm center caps and now I'm not sure what to do. Here are my options: leave the original black BBS caps on, buy a set of red BBS center caps, get a set of overlays or order some blue BBS center caps from Japan. What would you do? I've got a kind of a white-blue-silver theme going on the car. But red would probably play well with the tails, whereas blue would be better IMO bc I'm planning to paint the calipers blue. Black ones I have on right now are the ones I like the least. And The overlays are prolly crappy quality and will look weird, because they are noticeably larger than the OEM center cap roundels.

I wounder if there is a web site where you can order custom ones?

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red bbs caps all the way!
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Originally Posted by jasperxli
red bbs caps all the way!
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Old 11-24-2010, 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Trinity Autosport
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joe knows what im talking about!
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I'm not voting til I see pics of the wheels on the car.

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If you plan on painting calipers blue then get blue caps to match.
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I'm trying to find someone in Japan, who can order some original blue BBS caps for me. Might end up being too expensive tho...
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blue bbs caps are for magnesium forged wheels.
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Originally Posted by jasperxli
blue bbs caps are for magnesium forged wheels.
Yes, I know. But I thought they were same size though - 70mm
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