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08-02-2005, 11:57 AM | #1 |
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Help identify wheels - Style 199?
Back in April 2005, jwocky posted a picture of a Titanium Silver E90 in the snow with some nice wheels:
Official Titanium Silver Thread - post 33 Later in that thread there's some discussion as to whether the wheels are a Photoshop job or the 19" BMW Style 199. I also have in front of me the Original BMW Accessories catalog for the 3 Series Sedan. On page 8 there's a wide shot an E90 in Sparkling Grahite with the Style 199 wheels. They don't look the same as the wheels in the photo above. The spokes in the Style 199 wheels don't seem to flare or widen like the ones in the photo above, unless the lighting is so different that the shapes cannot be reliably compared. The wheels in the accessories booklet are lit such that the outward-facing plane of the spokes stands out while the rest of the wheel is in deep shadow. The photo above has more generous lighting on the wheels and makes the spokes look a lot wider, especially at their outer edges where they meet the rest of the wheel near the tire. Are the wheels in the photo really Style 199, or is this photo just contrived? I find the wheels in the photo very appealing and am interested to know whether they exist in real life. |
08-02-2005, 12:23 PM | #2 |
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I think it's a photoshop job... Look at the solid black in the openings of the wheels. They also look a little off center within the tires.
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08-02-2005, 12:39 PM | #3 |
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Yes, now I notice that the front and rear wheels appear pixel-by-pixel identical, which could never happen in a real photo.
So then the question becomes: Are the wheels in the photo a real BMW product? They appear to have the roundel in the center. |
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08-02-2005, 12:41 PM | #4 |
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It's possible that they are photoshop-ed, but I don't know. Look at the tires themselves...there's snow on them. Do you have any idea how difficult that would be to add snow to tires to make them look the way they do in the picture? Again, anything is possible, but there's a little too much detail for them to be completely done with photoshop. Three possibilities: 1) they are real 2) the tires and rims came from another picture that also happened to have snow 3) only the rims have been pasted over the tires.
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08-02-2005, 01:15 PM | #6 |
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yep, when execution got his 19" ASA's, Tire Rack gave him the center caps, very nice. I think this is a photshop job of the rim pasted onto the tire. The rim may not be a BMW product, but I'm sure it is out there. If you can't find this rim, I'm sure you could find something very similar.
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seh, those are somewhat similar to the BMW 19” Star Spoke 128 wheels tooner has on his car. This is his thread -
http://www.e90post.com/forums/showthread.php?p=30073 |
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The Style 128 wheel is nice and looks great, but it's not quite the match I was looking for; it lacks that groove or ridge down the center of each spoke like the ones in the snow picture. The search continues for the mysteriously unidentifiable wheels. |
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Unfortunately, the real finish is quite different than the lightened, smoothed appearance in the doctored photo. At some risk of offending any owners here, these Ace wheels just look cheap. As much as I love that picture (kudos to the artist), I don't think these wheels would look that good in real life. After much looking around, the Hartge Classic (10-spoke) has caught my fancy -- again thanks to a post by jwocky. |
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