I saved over £500 fitting these budget wheel arches to the Land Rover 

I’d paint the originals in the same tan colour (or as close as you can get) as the canvas roof

@0:33 That's £867 including VAT, Fraser! 😲But as to paint colour for the wheel arches, I'm inclined more towards keeping them the Raptor black finish, as it will not only tie in with other black accents on the car such as wing mirrors, but also be more durable than body colour paint when they inevitably get scratched when driven in anger. However, I can see the aesthetic (only) appeal of the body colour paint to disguise them a bit more. Difficult choice I agree, but I guess decision should be based on intended use for the vehicle?

I would either leave them black or maybe try and colour match them with the canvas

They look really good black. I like how they turned out with the raptor coating. I am a bit concerned about the tech screws going into the aluminium fender though. Seems like they might start exchanging electrons and cause some serious corrosion issues. Maybe it could benefit from some tef-gel on the screws?

Nice work Fraser. Big saving

Keep them black. If you do body color with body colored wheels you're going to need some contrast or it'll be monochromatic.

I think we need to see the body coloured ones on it to decide, I only have 2 on my 130 and 1 has a small split in it and I was looking for replacements.

I don’t think there is a right or wrong answer tbh, however I am with the general consensus that they should stay black.

Looks awesome as is and wont look as well painted

Keep them black, nice contrast.

Black

Black looks great.

Leave them in black looks better

body colour.

i bashed in my OSF arch about 3 years ago and its cracked and pealed most of the original body colour off so i have one partly black broken arch and the res body colour and iv still not decided weather i like them coloured or to spray them all black to look more like the broken one lol. but OMG 700 i didn't know that ill keep my broken one on thanks XD

I'd say paint them body colour, I think the black is too strong a contrast with the rest of the panels.

Oh gawd, now you've created a crimewave for stolen Defender wheel arches! 🤦‍♂️