MTech2 Front Spoiler Without Foglights???

[StuBeeDoo]

OK. I'm getting an MTech2 front spoiler for the Touring and I don't have foglights.
Fitting foglights is not an option, so which of the following do you think is preferable, bearing in mind that the spoiler needs work anyway.

1) Mesh the foglight, oil cooler and air-con holes?
2) Mesh just the foglight holes?
3) Smooth-over the foglight holes and slightly re-shape/enlarge the brake ducts?

Personally, I prefer the third option although it's going to be more work. What do you lot think?

[aceraf]

Hate mesh on e30's. Do a photoshop to show what you mean about opion 3. easiest thing would be just to fit fogs, and not wire them in. problem solved.

[StuBeeDoo]

I don't have photoshop and if I did probably wouldn't be capable of using it.
What I'm thinking is something similar to these, only maybe not quite so big.
(My apologies to Spadge for nicking his photo')



I don't particularly want to go the mesh route as I think it's "council". Am I right??

[Chris-W]

I don't particularly want to go the mesh route as I think it's "council". Am I right??[/color]

Yes!

[George_Of_The_Jungle]

gimp is a free version of photoshop, available on the internet
http://www.gimp.org/

[StuBeeDoo]

Yes!

Thought so!

[StuBeeDoo]

Any more comments? The more the merrier - good or bad!

[toby]

Yes option 3 sounds good and more cooling air to the brakes potentially. I don't imagine you'd have to do much. I'm sure I've seen examples of this option somewhere.

[leedg]

leave them empty....

[toby]

The scoop bit that normally goes in next to the fog light shown here,



can you not use those instead of fog lights?

Turn them around and use nearside one for offside and vice versa, adapt to fit.

[Alyman]

Get your hands on a cheap set of fogs then build up a few decent layers of of primer on the lenses. Sand them flat, then spray them body colour and install.

Ain't nothin fills a foglight gap like a foglight

[320Touring]

Get your hands on a cheap set of fogs then build up a few decent layers of of primer on the lenses. Sand them flat, then spray them body colour and install.

Ain't nothin fills a foglight gap like a foglight

lol! Aly to the rescue yet again!

Stuart- I'd fit fogs mate, even if not wired.

your car is too nice for any "schlaaag look" tactics...

[Ziggy]

If they don't fit as standard, I'd still expect some foglight blanks (from a standard facelift valence) could be made to work?

[suzie650]

Meshing is council, but not that council...
Imagine this extended to the fogs, and a nice custom air duct behind it to at least use the drag created by the big hole



Not too bad, is it?

[StuBeeDoo]

The scoop bit that normally goes in next to the fog light can you not use those instead of fog lights?
Turn them around and use nearside one for offside and vice versa, adapt to fit.

That's pretty much what I was thinking.
I used to have a photo' somewhere of a German E30 Touring with the foglight holes meshed - that was what made me think of it. I'll have to see if I can find it.

Neil, when I had foglights, I got through 2 and a half pairs in 18 months. I may have been unlucky, but I've been put off by that experience.

[suzie650]

If you're looking for photos, e30.de, under "fotostories"... Only good stuff in there. And hardly any m20b20/25. it's at least 2.7, or s50/s38. Great suff!

As for your problem, you could also try to make covers out of fibreglass yourself? That is if you don't want to mesh them.

[StuBeeDoo]

As for your problem, you could also try to make covers out of fibreglass yourself? That is if you don't want to mesh them.

That's another thing I've been thinking. Fibreglass + modded standard scoops = bigger scoops and no foglight holes.
I think the photo' I'm thinking of did come from e30.de.

[euan]

i think the idea of just painting over fog lights is genious !!!!!!!!!!