cheers gents
the smoked lights dont show up too well in that pic but they do better on my sig pic below
it's about where i want i looks wise now. simple, mean and not fussy.
the touring is my favorite E30 body type and could only be bettered in my eyes by a 'M3' touring
i don't have many problems getting about at all. even though there are horrid 'bus bumps' on lots of roads round here, it clears them fine. my suspension is hard enough for it not to drop much further

the only places i have problems are the long curved speed humps, if hit them too fast as the rear picks up and can throw the front down hard. easy to detour round though. oh and the little rubber ones in car parks can sometimes catch on the backs of the wishbones and exhaust

it gets into multi storey car parks ok though.
the 'is' spoiler has taken a few scrapes when i've forgotten about it but it's 20 years old so who cares!
it does look low but it never bottoms out and is totally stable at speed on 'real' roads