Fuch Refinishing opinion needed Color and Anodizing Options

[flyloki]

So I just painted the 74 Artic silver including valances and rockers, bumpers are satin black.

Fuchs look like crap and I took them to the anodizer to get redone. I'm trying to avoid having to polish them. So I had them strip, blast and clear anodize one to see how it looks.

Well its a nice satin uniform finish but it looks too much like primer grey. Ideally I want a semi-polished wheel(don't like the mirror chrome look) with anodize hard finish.

I have three choices-

1) Just do them all like that cause it still looks kinda silver. -Easy

2) Have the 'dizer strip them all, polish and reanodize to get more shine. Work and or spendy.

3) Have them done in a anthracite/gunmetal anodize. Easy but I'm not sure I'll like the look of the silver and gun metal together although it seems like a popular look today.

Anybody have gun metal color wheels here or care to throw in their 2 cents?

[charliew]

Most silvers of any type of coating will age quicker than other colors and a clearcoat does help them all. My opinion is the redone highly polished and anodized wheels with the black background look the most expensive. If you are using fakes it doesn't matter a lot but if it's the real thing I like the real thing redone I think they will hold their value much better. It's almost impossible to mount tires on a aluminum painted wheel without damaging the edge. I have had dumbasses drop their tools on brand new expensive wheels and never think twice about it. Tire shops are the best place to have real bad experiences, most of them hate me.