Need some input on redoing Audi S4

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Hey :iS: family,

So next week I'm going to start some work on my friend's and trainer beat up Audi S4. It's a B5 from '99, and is in serious need of some TLC. Over all car is in great condition, interior is flawless, but since he moved to LA, he just had a few bad months when one fender bended happened after another. When I saw this poor car I just had to tell him let me fix it before I have a seizure.

Fixing his front passenger fender, redoing the front bumper, gonna open the headlights, paint them black, leave the chrome shrouds, add Audi LED switch back bar, wrap his roof in CF, ting his windows with 35% blue tint, tint his tail lights blue to match the S4 blue color. Painting his rims in gunmetal, same as mine.

Now my question about the wheels, I was thinking of painting the inside of the wheel in blue, so you can see it from outside and possibly creating sort of contrast. What do you guys think about that? Also his brake calipers, what color would you suggest to go with the blue? I don't wanna do red, that's too common, yellow might be a bit too much, silver? copper?

Any ideas as to what else I could do:)?

After all the help he has done for me and still helping me start my new career, this is the least I can do and hope he will be stoked after I give him his car back.

Thanks for reading!

this is the car like his, with same wheels and all, just imagine it being banged up, scratched up, and missing the fog lights grille inserts, already sourced those out.

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I actually think Yellow would look fantastic on that.

I would also think dark wheels to contrast with the calipers with maybe the logo or outside of the rims/lip in blue stripe or something. I like your idea of getting blue in there somehow to help keep the look "uniform".
 
i like the gold bronze look on blue
even though yellow painted calipers are found on 100k cars like porsche cayenne turbo s, 911 turbo, gt3 and aftermarket bbk
 
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Appreciate all the input guys! Definitely not gonna make it look high school ricer lol. I will paint one yellow one gold/copper put up pix for your final suggestion.
I only gonna have it for 2 days do am pushing it. Half of the stuff he doesn't even know he is getting lol. But gave me green light to do whatever. :)


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Yellow caliper would look pretty decent. I don't know if I would paint the inside of the wheels. Too much matching color would make it look dated. Maybe paint them a gunmetal color, that would go with the roof pretty well and make the brake calipers pop. I have black wheels on my 335 and yellow calipers and the calipers really stand out. Not sure how blue tinted tail lights would look. Same issue as blue wheels on a blue car, there should be some contrast. So maybe lightly smoke them? The color of the car is very bright so some contrast would be good.

This is all just my opinion.
 
What do the calipers look like? Just realized they not be the right size/shape that you'd want to paint and draw attention too. Like the OEM FX brakes I wouldn't paint a noticeable color because they are too plain.
 
They should look like this:

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Most people buy a cover for that middle bit. Something like this:

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That says B6 though, this is a B5.

I think it looks like this:

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I will have a better idea about the wheels/calipers when I get the car on Tuesday. I am also considering line green for calipers. So will see. The roof is def going to be CF. Just had the roll delivered.
I'll sleep on it over the weekend and hopefully have better ideas. Thank you all for your comments ;)


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Black or maybe silver would be the only way I'd go. The car will be ruined with Blue, and the Red will just look awful. Definitely safe with black, a matte silver with a red S-Line decal will look nice. Tinted windows, darker wheels, black calipers, etc...
 
Def no red!! Lol.
Wheels will be done kind of like I have on my FX. Gunmetal, but with a mirror gloss. Calipers might be line green. We actually saw one and it looked cool. Headlights will be wether satin black or gunmetal too. Kind of following the idea from 180custom.


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I dropped off the face of the planet. Will be updating my stuff soon, wanted to show how the Audi came out. Missed the IS!

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