E30 Zone

http://www.Lamin-X.co.uk

Guys,

Some of you may have used Lamin-X products before, some may not...

For those of you who don't know their products, they supply a range of light and paint protection films that come in a range of sizes and colours including clear, 'optic blue', yellow, 'gun smoke', 'subtle tint' and red.

These can be used to create some very nice effects at a very reasonable cost! Some of you may have seen Dips' green V8 touring with the yellow headlights and fogs. These were done using Lamin-X products!



Anyway, their website can be accessed at http://www.lamin-x.co.uk/

UPDATE 3/11/10:
A new 10% discount code has been issued to all E30 Zone forum members. Simply enter 'e30zone' in the discount code field when paying for your items on the Lamin-x site.

cool might need to place a order for few other types soon

mmm... like the subtle tint and smoked gun but is this road legal as it must block light output [especially smoked gun!]

Apparently it doesn't block the light output enough to make it illegal. Personally I will be opting for the light tint option when it becomes available to buy in TWO WEEKS' time. This sort of stuff would be even better with a HID kit IMO and there certainly wouldn't be a problem with light shining through with those!!

Oh by the way - the DISCOUNT CODE IS NOW ADDED IN THE ORIGINAL POST...

yea i think i'm gonna have to get some light tint ones for some smoked hella's!! sweet...

Which one is closest to smoked hella's? And will red rear work E30's?

Blitz wrote:Which one is closest to smoked hella's? And will red rear work E30's?

Not sure on the Hellas but I'm going to get some of the light tint stuff as the gun smoke looks pretty dark! With the red film for the rears you'll probably need yellow bulbs/LEDs to go in the indicators to make them flash orange still... They sell these on the site.

I have just been informed by the very helpful Neil at Lamin-X that the subtle tint headlight film is now available.

I've just put in my order with the 10% discount (effectively free P&P)

just ordered a sheet of yellow tint to do my headlights and front indicators ill update with pictures when ive fitted it

I will be putting my subtle tint film on tomorrow too once I've sorted my HID issue and will post before and after pic's

Euro look FTW

E30BeemerLad wrote:Euro look FTW

now get the bloody chrome rings blacked ya lazy sod

E30BeemerLad wrote:Euro look FTW

your car gave me the idea and will look even better now im spraying the whole car black.

aj_mckay, what size sheet is needed in order to cover front headlights only, and do they come with a template ?.
Not an art,s and crafts kind of person tbh.

gooner1 wrote:aj_mckay, what size sheet is needed in order to cover front headlights only, and do they come with a template ?.
Not an art,s and crafts kind of person tbh.

Well I've got two 12x8" sheets but I haven't used them yet. I'm pretty sure they will do both sets of front lights fine but if you're not certain go for the slightly taller sheet (10" if there is one).

I'm no artist but it can't be that hard (famous last words)! There weren't any templates that I could see. The american site do templates for E30s but the shipping costs double the price of the stuff to us in the UK...

the biggest size will do the 4 lights and fogs ,just about

i ordered 12 x 20 to do my headlights and indicators possibly.

i might order some of the dark stuff for me fogs

Once people have done their lights in whatever films you're going for, send pic's to me and I'll put them in the Original Post with Dips' so people can see when they open this thread...

ill get some pictures up of my lights once ive finished them off. done one side just gotta apply it to the other side,

reall really easy to work with,

Anyone got any pics of lights they've managed to get done?

Would be interested to see if the rears still flash orange aswell if anyone's done them.

not a great picture but ill take a better one boxing day.

1an wrote:not a great picture but ill take a better one boxing day.

Looks nice. Might try it on mine.

aceraf wrote:Anyone got any pics of lights they've managed to get done?

Would be interested to see if the rears still flash orange aswell if anyone's done them.

+1

liking the blue one.... but like the yellow to but so dos the smoked,,, are dame get some piccys up so i can decie, if only i had photoshop still

thing with the yellow it look in my opinion rubbish when the car was red but as i have sprayed it black now, well in the process it looks 10x better.

oh and i doubt the indicators will show amber through the red film.

aceraf wrote:Anyone got any pics of lights they've managed to get done?

Would be interested to see if the rears still flash orange aswell if anyone's done them.

I think you will need yellow bulbs, which can be bought from the Lamin-X site or elsewhere too I'm sure to make rear indicators flash orange with red tint film on...

Happy Xmas all BTW.

i think im going for the optic blue, looks mad, dont know about any one else but some nice high temp colour bulbs and this optic blue film... may even get clear indicators and cover them blue too not sure aboout the fogs dont wanna over do it, may get some amazingly high bright bulbs for them and cover them yellow, will only need the smalliest or next size up

aj_mckay wrote:
I think you will need yellow bulbs, which can be bought from the Lamin-X site or elsewhere too I'm sure to make rear indicators flash orange with red tint film on...

Happy Xmas all BTW.

but i think with them cyristal rear lights of the bay i reckon they would look shite hot#

and merry xams to you too

1an wrote:not a great picture but ill take a better one boxing day.

did you get on the beers early today ian? lol

ok well this aint nothing special but had a go at giving the e30 the light tints on photoshop, but you can get the genreal idea

optic blue

subtle tint

gun smoke


and weve seen the yellow before so i left that out,

hope this helps put the colour/view in to perspective

essexboy wrote:

1an wrote:not a great picture but ill take a better one boxing day.

did you get on the beers early today ian? lol

what spraying the turd black? er oe night i did and decided would be a good idea, just waiting for my mate to spray it properly with his compressor etc

Wow, the blue looks as shit as I pictured...

does look a little sh,it but the gun smoke look nice and do go with the car as its black