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It gets stranger when you look at the wheel photos in the Pricing Information at the UK BMW site (https://www.bmw.co.uk/pdfs/price-lis...t_july2018.pdf)...
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BMW are prolific at misprints and errors, so I wouldn't go off that. Even their product info from different regions vary, that should tell you something. Trust in the VIN's of real life cars with "black" wheels. I'm 99% certain the face of the wheels are not black.
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Somehow I can't believe that every car, and every image thus far has been the black alloys!
I'm hoping the above PDF is accurate... would be a pretty idiotic mistake for BMW to get it that wrong... but, its BMW, you never know |
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We are also putting faith in 3rd party VIN decoders. They may have it wrong also.
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I originally ordered the black but changed them to the nice ones. I even sent an email to the sales guy and said I want the wheels in these pics.
He said ok. These are the standard ones. |
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No doubt those are the standard wheels. My question is: are the black wheels all black or gunmetal faced. I prefer all black, but either will work.
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No in the US. Only in certain other countries.
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Aren't the 788s similar to the approach taken with the blackk 666Ms? I thought I remember seeing something to that effect - aka, not completely black. More like black accents....but I may be wrong.
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My thinking as well. I recall the black 666M wheels have black barrels, but the machined face was also lightly tinted black.
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They also referred to the 788M wheels as "jet black" as well. I'm still going by what the VIN's and pics of the real life cars show until I see otherwise.
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My take is that the black wheels are actually going to have a black face and not a gunmetal finish. It just does not seem to make sense that they would offer a bi-color wheel with silver face and a "black" wheel with a slightly darker face that looks almost identical.
I also noticed in the current issue of Roundel that they mention that the black wheel option has a black face. No idea how accurate Roundel has been in the past though... https://f87.bimmerpost.com/forums/at...1&d=1531362963 |
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Thanks for this! Any chance you could photoshop the M2C with 788Ms in this bronze color? Would be interested to see how it would look on LBB.
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