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Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:34 pm

Hands up all the OEM homo's
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Yes with my Touring. Catagorically 'No' with my two door. How does that work :mad:
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:48 pm

beemerbird wrote:Yes with my Touring. Catagorically 'No' with my two door. How does that work :mad:
Your bi and will take what you can get..

For the record OEM for me.. But if I started with a shitter I wouldnt hesitate to ruin it :D
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:51 pm

erm .. No ! and proud to be different :D

but.. if I owned a mint M3 it might be a different story !
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:29 pm

m_jermyn wrote:
beemerbird wrote:Yes with my Touring. Catagorically 'No' with my two door. How does that work :mad:


For the record OEM for me.. But if I started with a shitter I wouldnt hesitate to ruin it :D
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No - Im more OEM plus as Ive heard it described - would only put OEM items on the car - but I whipped the chrome (rust) bumpers off and put a tech II kit on it. Not anal about it - dont consider myself to be a modder either.

As Steve says if I had a mint totally original low mileage something special car I would retain its originality.
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I'm having this dilema right now, got a mint m3 cabby shell (not original btw purists), do i go OEM or Modified :?
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:55 pm

If it isn't original then you may as well do what you like with it.

OEM for me, for the visible bits anyway.
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 3:56 pm

Definitly NOT :D
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Pretty much. Well with my sport anyway.
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Absolutely! Even got the windscreen fitted by BMW, no doubt twice the price of Autoglass :D Sad really....
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bss325i wrote:Pretty much. Well with my sport anyway.
Apart from bottletops eh Barry. :wink: :wave:
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:17 pm

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bss325i wrote:Pretty much. Well with my sport anyway.
Apart from bottletops eh Barry. :wink: :wave:
Bottle tops should be melted down to make new BBS or Alpinas! :wink:
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Tue Sep 07, 2010 8:43 pm

OEM Bi here, go bmw for things I can afford........
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depends what it is mostly OEM though :D
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OEM when I can afford it :wink:
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h7fal wrote:Absolutely! Even got the windscreen fitted by BMW, no doubt twice the price of Autoglass :D Sad really....

Oooh a new contender for the OEM Homo award 2010 I think. :D
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Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:35 am

johnt0709 wrote:
h7fal wrote:Absolutely! Even got the windscreen fitted by BMW, no doubt twice the price of Autoglass :D Sad really....

Oooh a new contender for the OEM Homo award 2010 I think. :D
Lazy coont it would of been even cheaper doing it yourself :D
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I've got stacks of receipts for gen stuff.

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I try to keep the important bits OE, but like to add my own style to my E30 without going over the top and i never do anything to hardcore that cant be put back to standard quite easily.

My list of non OE/council spec mods are as follows........

Window tints
Large multi media set up
After market rear lights
Smoked indicators
Black & white referb on my 15inch BBS's
German Style number plates

Quite a list of bits that a lot of you OEM gay boys would love to hate but its all easy to put back to OE, not like i've holes in the bonnet or anything winkeye
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Wed Sep 08, 2010 4:25 pm

Hmm! Are you saying the OEM lot are Homo's? :wink:

Put it this way! If you were in the restaurant of your favourite chef and he cooks you say a steak which is a bit bland, would you add salt, perper to taste or would you say "Ho no it was cooked by my favorite cheff so i will just eat it as is"? Me personally i would put salt, pepper, mutard, ketchup and everything else i needed to add to taste good to me :twisted:
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