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De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:42 pm
by oomz1975
Been rolling like this for a couple of years & decided to go for little change in appearance
from this....

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...to this (phone pic)

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15" BBS & 205/55/15
Chrome kidney grill
Standard headlight rings
:)

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:43 pm
by robbo86
Nice! Looking good!

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:50 pm
by Royalratch
Orange indicators and you'll be seriously solid.

And what's up with those wind deflector things?

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:52 pm
by THEHOOD
Very nice fella :cool: What ride height is that? where did you get those wind deflector things on your windows from?

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:57 pm
by oomz1975
THEHOOD wrote:Very nice fella :cool: What ride height is that? where did you get those wind deflector things on your windows from?
-60mm all round
I got the wind deflectors off fleabay a while back.

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:07 pm
by Rtaylor2208
Both versions of the car look good, but I prefer they way it was.

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:13 pm
by oomz1975
Rtaylor2208 wrote:Both versions of the car look good, but I prefer they way it was.
Cheers, I still have everything for as & when I feel like reverting back to council mode.
Its amazing what a difference a set of wheels can do to a cars overall charector.

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:29 pm
by MurphyE30
nice but i think it looked better before :D

always nice to have a change though :)

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:40 pm
by popey7676
oomz1975 wrote:
Rtaylor2208 wrote:Both versions of the car look good, but I prefer they way it was.
Cheers, I still have everything for as & when I feel like reverting back to council mode.
Its amazing what a difference a set of wheels can do to a cars overall charector.
iv just changed mine fom 17s to 15s, but i changed the suspension aswell, it rides and handles so much better!

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:46 pm
by Alex
Much better, it will handle way better on the 15"s

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 8:18 pm
by Simon13
and ride better, its the only way to go on a 60mm drop. The ride is bearable

50 profile rubber ftw

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:18 am
by tonybtonyb
Going back to her roots :cool:

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:15 pm
by Gert_8
MurphyE30 wrote:nice but i think it looked better before :D

always nice to have a change though :)
+1

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 1:30 pm
by Shaheenk
Sadly I prefer the before pic as well, but then never had a stock car

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:35 pm
by vanos
Gert_8 wrote:
MurphyE30 wrote:nice but i think it looked better before :D

always nice to have a change though :)
+1
+2

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:39 pm
by Barx325i
Alex wrote:Much better, it will handle way better on the 15"s
even more startling bowling along at speed on 16's

have to say I prefer the 1st pic - genuine alpinas needed

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:36 am
by charlE30
It did look good before but looks even better now 8)

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 7:28 pm
by oomz1975
I'm always on the look out for the decent set of 16s. winkeye

Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:52 pm
by oomz1975
I must admit, looks alot classier on the 15s...

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Re: De-councilled my touring...

Posted: Sun Feb 20, 2011 11:46 am
by i8lufc
:cool: