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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 04:04 PM
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Default Opinion: Silver or Yellow Calipers

About to order a G2 kit off ebay and cant decide which route to go. Need to break up the color on my car a little so I am leaning towards yellow, but silver seems like a good option.

My car is black with black wheels

I love the way the yellow looks but am afraid it might be too bright, unless you guys think gold would look better?

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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 05:01 PM
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hmm silver looks too OEM and yellow is bright. but then again bright is good too...

in my opinion I think red would look good too. and if you're not going for something too bright, then black is good too
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 05:52 PM
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i think yellow or red calipers would look nice on black with black wheels!
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by DenIS250
i think yellow or red calipers would look nice on black with black wheels!
Yellow would look really nice,just my $0.02 of course.
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 07:55 PM
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I got yellow and I like it a lot. Yes, it attracts attention. Can't tell you how many times I spot people next to me taking a glimpse. Then again, I like attention. If my paint chips or whatever, I may paint it gold, orange, or lime next. Here's mine, and yes the rash is bad!

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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 08:00 PM
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Id go gold or silver. Yellow is awfully bright for stock brakes. But if you like yellow then id go with yellow since its your car.
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 08:25 PM
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I think if you got black with black wheels, yellow will work. Otherwise i don't think it will
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 08:27 PM
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bright is right!

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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 08:40 PM
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Silver won't really stand out much. I think gold looks pretty sweet with black on black but yellow or red would be a nice touch. No matter what, get black lettering on the Lexus logo.
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Old Aug 3, 2011 | 09:14 PM
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i'd personally prefer silver for the clean look.
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 12:26 AM
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oem is grey which is basically silver lol i'd go with yellow
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 07:45 AM
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Yellow but it's racer looking
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 07:54 AM
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if you don't want to do bright.. do blue!!
though I plan on Red or Blue for me ;-)
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 09:23 AM
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Silver.... or polished.

Last edited by Dvo; Aug 4, 2011 at 11:08 AM.
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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 09:30 AM
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Between those two... yellow.
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