E30 Zone

Just given the full cleaning treatment.....

looks very nice and clean, tidy cab you got there, but i must say get rid of the alpinas and get something euro style

E3OBM wrote:looks very nice and clean, tidy cab you got there, but i must say get rid of the alpinas and get something euro style

Burger kings, not Alpinas

Is that interor yellow?

shazE30 wrote:Is that interor yellow?

Well spotted, it does look like it is.

Nice cabby, looks very smart

I think the interior is cream/white

very nice car ...........

Yellow? Who do you think I am...Ronald McDonald!!??

It's cream leather that I had trimmed a couple of months ago. This is a better shot:

Stunning,
God I'm jealous,

Wow, love it, how much did that cost you?

A grand plus my old seats as exchange. It's a superb job and the M-Tech stripes are in coloured leather as well. Really sets the car off well, money well spent IMO.

As per the earlier post I think I'd like to change the wheels, but have no idea what to change them to. I always liked the Alpina wheels and think the reps look fine, but I'm convinced the car would drive better on different rims. All ideas welcome, preferably with pics!

Genuine set of Alpinas would look nice IMO, check out Rav335uk's sig pic

What was the name of the company?

I think the 17" Alpinas look well smart mate.

They may not be originals and done to death but never fail on a e30 when there is a nice drop.

Much better than 16" unless euro dished rims

BBS RM splitties would look nice for the euro look in 8 and 9 inch

Loving it! Stunning car.

Some better/uncommon wheels, preferably deep dish/split rims, will completely set it off.

Oh and that second lock or whatever it is on the drivers door is so annoying.

maf260 wrote:Yellow? Who do you think I am...Ronald McDonald!!??

It's cream leather that I had trimmed a couple of months ago. This is a better shot:

BBS RS's ...pretty

However do come with a not sooo sexy price tag and rare in correct fitaments and size.....but well worth it...

Borbet B's rare once again.. and few guys on here have them

Ive been thinking bout these:
http://www.kerscher-tuning.de/raeder/index.php?id=17

Colour coded centers polished dish on any motor wud just be stunning!

Your wheels.. do look sweet... and if you like them thats all that matters!


Did you use the fella in leatherhead? advertised on ebay??

Work looks really good!

Totally stunning cab you have there.
As said above i reckon bbs rm's would finish it off perfectly.

maf260 wrote:Yellow? Who do you think I am...Ronald McDonald!!??

Lol for abit I did think it was a campaign E30 for mcD's Lol, but glad its not yellow! yeh very nice cabby, wheels wise I think azev A's esp the ones with the dish would look perfect

Thanks for all the positive comments and suggestions (keep them coming!). I'm going to have to spend a few hours on the net looking up all these wheels to see what they look like.

Still got a list of things I want/need to do to the car, so it's not finished yet. I'm about to press it into daily service as I'm selling my other car and it always takes me ages to find a replacement.

The trimmer was based in East London/Essex way. Can't remember his name right now, but will try to dig it out. If anyone wants to know please PM me so I remember.

maf260 wrote:Thanks for all the positive comments and suggestions (keep them coming!). I'm going to have to spend a few hours on the net looking up all these wheels to see what they look like.

Still got a list of things I want/need to do to the car, so it's not finished yet. I'm about to press it into daily service as I'm selling my other car and it always takes me ages to find a replacement.

The trimmer was based in East London/Essex way. Can't remember his name right now, but will try to dig it out. If anyone wants to know please PM me so I remember.

Guy called Tony?

I think borbet B's and BBS Splits are a good option but its your car so whatever you like just do that.....


Nice looking car tho....

IMO the wheels look cracking and set the car off, changing the wheels will dramatically change the look of the car.

I may be shot down here but dose it really matter that they are replicas, they look the part and so long as they handle well whats the crime.

PS. The rest of the car is

Curr946 wrote:IMO the wheels look cracking and set the car off, changing the wheels will dramatically change the look of the car.

I may be shot down here but dose it really matter that they are replicas, they look the part and so long as they handle well whats the crime.

PS. The rest of the car is

I agree they look good, but the car could look a lot better with some different wheels.

Well I finally bought some brand new rims for the car and some lovely sticky Yokohama tyres to go with them. The problem is that the wheels I wanted were NLA with a silver centre so I went for black instead. I sort of like them, but keep wondering what the car would look like with silver centres so have bought some paint & materials to respray them.
Before I go ahead I'd like to hear some opinions and see if somebody would kindly photoshop the centres to silver.

Thanks in advance

How much lowering?

No opinions at all? I was expecting to get slated for not having genuine BBS wheels on the car........

kert6 wrote:How much lowering?

It's -60mm at the front and -35mm at the rear

those wheels look badass...great choice!! bbs or not makes no difference. since when was bbs the only choice of wheel for an e30?............sooo much better than the bk's

i would stick with black as silver is common

Thanks. Seem to be many on here who believe anything other than genuine BBS x-spoke is unacceptable. I wanted 17s, looked at loads of different options/wheels and these are the only ones that I wanted enough to buy. Just a shame that I couldn't get the silver colour as I think I prefer it to black (which makes the car look a bit too 'drug dealer' IMO!)

......you might find they are the ones selling bbs wheels

if you've got a pic of the silver centre wheels, post it up even if its NLA as it would be easier to cut and paste it onto your pic. also a sideways pic of the car to eliminate perspective (ie: the wheels are totally circular) would also make life easy for photoshop guru's......

but seriously, stick with black (and no, i'm not high!!)

At the end of the day it's your car & you have it how you want to,
Those wheels look nice, you have the advantage now that you can drive it like that for a while to see if the black centres "grow" on you, if you still don't like them 100%, you can try silver centres,
(I still think it's stunning & I'm still jealous,)

I would be happy if mine was 1/5th that clean!

I have a question - your doors have the same odd looking things that look like slam locks, what are they? Never seen them on a car EVER and now I see another - on another cabby!

looks better, but I think these rims would look better in a dark grey shade..but hats off to you because know one has bought these rims on the zone that I know of I'm considering buying these Lenso Eagles but just wish they had a deeper dish for the rears esp....but looks very cool...

15" BBS and an M Tech drop would look better

Lose the black centres IMO. I'd go for a grey centre on a polished lip?