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alfajock

Member Since: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 227

1989 Defender 110 V8 Petrol CSW Bonatti Grey

Refurbing Deep Dish - Black or Anthracite on Bonatti Grey?

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Time to change my trusty but 10 year old BFG MTs so I'm going to get the wheels Refurbed while I'm at it.

Will be getting BFG AT KOs 265/75 and wheels are Compomotive XS - Deep Dish with extra offset, on 30mm spacers. Love the wheels and stance but bored of silver. Black is the obvious choice (too obvious?) so thinking anthracite perhaps, but might be a bit odd with two similar greys (though it looked on on Romb Raiders)

Anyone got any pics of grey on grey - Boosts are similar enough to get the effect?

Cheers Fully Restored 89 110 CSW V8

CLS 350 CDI for the sensible stuff

26th Mar 2016 11:08am

mk1collector

Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 6772

Did my boosts black on my bonatti 110 and love the look. Did the roof black too

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26th Mar 2016 4:13pm

alfajock

Member Since: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 227

Nice job - she looks great!

Fully Restored 89 110 CSW V8

CLS 350 CDI for the sensible stuff

27th Mar 2016 5:32am

Wild Card 90

Member Since: 03 Dec 2014
Location: Gerlingen
Posts: 1060

2012 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Indus Silver

With the Bonatti grey bodywork, black looks great. Gloss black would be my preference, as mk1c has done. There are always other black details on a Defender that it ties in with, and gloss cleans up nicely.

1998 Tdi 90 SW,
2008 Td4 90 SW,
2012 2.2 90 SW,
2" raised Trailmaster/Terrafirma
Heavy Track Raids, 255 MT´s,
Recaro CS´s, anorak, wellingtons

27th Mar 2016 6:44am

alfajock

Member Since: 12 Jan 2011
Location: Bedfordshire
Posts: 227

Indeed they do - black does seem like the safe option. A bit of Photoshopping seems on the cards Fully Restored 89 110 CSW V8

CLS 350 CDI for the sensible stuff

28th Mar 2016 4:07pm

Screbble

Member Since: 26 Apr 2015
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 2109

2004 Defender 90 Td5 XS CSW Zambezi Silver

mk1collector wrote:
Did my boosts black on my bonatti 110 and love the look. Did the roof black too

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Nice job Ray.

Did you do the work yourself? If so, what prep did you do, as they've come out like new.

Did you use etch primer?

I quite like the 'original' alloy silver colour on my boosts, but they could do with a facelift for 2016. If it's easy enough to do, and you can successfully mask the tyre therefore making the job DIYable then I may just practice on my spare

Has anyone retained the original silver and done the job themselves?

29th Mar 2016 8:57pm

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