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01-24-2022, 06:33 PM | #1 |
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Blue or Red Calipers?
Just put my order in for a M240i BG on Tacora Red with 791 black wheels and torn between the blue and red calipers - thoughts?
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01-24-2022, 07:15 PM | #2 |
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Tacora red interior is begging for red calipers. I also ordered Brooklyn Grey but with cognac interior, 893M bi-color wheels with high performance tires, and red calipers.
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01-24-2022, 07:24 PM | #3 |
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Blue calipers with Portimao Blue car. Saw it for the first time today when I took delivery. Looks better than I imagined!!
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01-24-2022, 08:34 PM | #4 |
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I got red because it seemed really nice in the press cars where they have the Thundernight and red calipers. If I had Alpine White, blue might be a better complement. Also I had blue brakes on my M5 so this is nice change.
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01-24-2022, 08:54 PM | #5 |
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Perhaps a stronger exterior color and then match the caliper to the bodycolor as your first mod?
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01-24-2022, 09:05 PM | #6 |
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I ordered red calipers on my Portimao Blue to go with my Tacora Red interior. I wanted a contrast on the calipers, didn't want them to match the paint on the car. Plus BMW uses the blue calipers as standard spec on pretty much all the M-Sport cars so I wanted to also have something different than the norm.
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01-25-2022, 08:00 AM | #7 |
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My last 3 cars have had blue, going for red this time. You can't go wrong with red!
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01-25-2022, 08:37 AM | #8 |
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with Brooklyn Gray, I like you would have ordered Red Calipers.. nice pop!! That said, I ordered Portimao Blue so selected blue calipers.. For me, I didn't want my vehicle to look like Christmas or a Circus. Blue on Blue looked nice on the build site plus I ordered bi-color wheels
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01-25-2022, 05:34 PM | #9 |
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Thanks for everyone's input! My initial thought was blue but after looking at a million pics and vids the red seems to stand out more against the black wheels and BG. The blue seems to blend in more too.
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01-25-2022, 05:50 PM | #10 |
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Blue with BG, but I F'ed up. Didn't see the option till after the order was placed.
Not such a big deal though for me.
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01-25-2022, 06:04 PM | #11 |
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You wanted the red?
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01-25-2022, 06:30 PM | #12 |
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Are those the shadowline headlights?
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Not such a dealbreaker for me though.
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01-28-2022, 12:10 PM | #15 |
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Depends heavily on the exterior color. I went Portimao Blue with Blue calipers. Blue looks classier imo.
Red looks more race oriented, which seems a bit out of place. However more subtle body colors look good with the red as an accent piece. BGM is a more muted paint choice so I'd say red probably looks better. |
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