COBRAJOE

I have to agree with the Black wheels looking cheap. Maybe it's just my generation, but black wheels, grill, etc..., were always on the baseline vehicles in my time. No chrome,no heat or AC , sometimes no radio or just an AM radio.

Just my $0.02

C7Jake

matte black on both

Lockelamora

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I have black wheels, first off, I like how they look on my blue truck. For practicallity though, they cover up when I run into rocks/curbs anything else WAY better than any chrome I have had in the past. Also with salt all over I am really sick of the insides rusting after a year on my chrome wheels, the black coating stops most of that from happening.

I do think there is a generational difference to some extent, the older crowd remembers black as cheap, I think chrome is flashy looking and stupid on a truck you are supposed to get dirty and scratched. The factory "chrome" from ford is fake anyways, so it's a cheap knock off on a 50k truck.

Big_Daddy_DC

I completely agree COBRAJOE. I also dislike the black grill on the Sport Appearance package. A buddy of mine has a white XLT with the black grill and when I see it I think of a local electrical utility truck.

Maybe it's just because I'm older and can remember when chrome was an upgrade and the blacked out look was the base model.

Preferences like this come and go as new generations of buyers come along. Give it a few more years and the blacked out look will fade away just like everything else.

Fordman1979!

I actually like both, but it really depends on the color scheme of the truck or car. For instance, my truck is Ford's blue jean blue with a tan bottom. Black wheels on my truck wouldn't look very good, so I went with chrome. If I had an all black truck or white truck then I'd probably go with black wheels, but it would just depend on what I found looked good on it. Now the only thing I require for black wheels is they need to be gloss black, not satin.
Below is my blue and tan truck and a picture of a black on black truck that looks good.

Lockelamora

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The question is, what replaces black, do we go back to chrome? Gunmetal? Or do people start color matching their rims. I know some people do that now but most people seem to hate that look.

Fordman1979!

The color matching is very ghetto is you ask me. Wheels are not supposed to be green, blue, pink, etc. Looks cheap and just trashy!

buzzin 1/2 dozen

I remember my father telling me the thing was back in his day (1940's-1950's) was to paint your wheels fire engine red.

SilverSurfer15

They arent black. I was talking about black wheels.

Geist1911

That isn't completely true, I think the partially painted 18" wheels on the sports package look phenomenal.