My 318i Touring... Update With New Owner Page 5

[oldroydsr4]

Fair enough, i'm a firm believer that bags are for cheaters.

[Jhonno]

Bags are for gays..

[The_Haywood]

if that's the case then lads bend over for my meat train as i am a lover of bags.

[Jhonno]

How much are bags?

[The_Haywood]

i'm awaiting a price atm from rayvern... if all else fails i'll buy all the bits needed myself and me and a friend will do a custom build.

[oldroydsr4]

Good quality coilovers will be cheaper, ride better , improve your handling and be easier to sell.

But if you must have bags .........

[Jhonno]

Good quality coilovers will be cheaper, ride better , improve your handling and be easier to sell.

But if you must have bags .........

This..

[The_Haywood]

A lot of the airbag kits now are bolt on kits and so i would keep my standard set up and bosh back on if ever i sold it... also if i can get hold of the parts, you can build the set up for about £1k... which is around about the same price as a decent quality set of coilovers... Also a lot of people are filled with a big misconception of airbag suspension... When airbags first started coming into the modifying circle... yes the ride was terrible... but there's been a lot of advances even to the extent that it's hard to tell the difference... quite a few of my friends run bags in their golfs, a3s, passat etc etc and i've been in them and the rides really good.

[Duke137]

Nice car haywood

[The_Haywood]

Cheers duke

Quickly chucked my front bumper on just to see what it'll look like complete... The bumper is nowhere near finished yet...



And in the excitement of looking at it on i forgot that the tow hook hole sticks out on the ram and i haven't trimmed it yet so it went straight through



I love it though i'm sure purists will hate :p

[Duke137]

Who gives a fook who hates it, its your car and an E30 your doing something right mate

[Jhonno]

I like the Breyton.. Bumper looks shit imo, it's turning into a big white blob

[The_Haywood]

Thanks for your opinion jhonno and duely noted ;)

[The_Haywood]

i've put the "big white blob" look down to the lighting in the pic... took this pic today of it in the car port and think it looks a lot better.... i've just got to make the number plate holder that will sit inbetween the bumper and the breyton valance



Now all the doors are wrapped in green and also fitted my breyton skirts...



And another shot from the rear... still have to paint bottom of tailgate prior to refitting boot plynth



Also thought mirrors were looking tatty and as all my trim and door strips are matte black... i decided to matte black the mirrors too....

old and corroded


mirrors refreshed

[Jim320i]

I would have left the bonnet like that... Pattern looked awesome.

[The_Haywood]

If i have a fiver for everytime someone has said that to me since it's happened Jim, i'd probably have enough for some banded steels from grantly

[Jim320i]

Aha. It made a very cool pattern. If I was keeping my Touring, i'd probably go and do something like that to it and offend all the oem homo's. Facelifts are for ruining in my opinion. Chromies stay standard.

[The_Haywood]

the green on it atm is a bit of a piss take tbh as the car's having a colour change over winter... i'm just in the early stages of learning to paint so thought i'd a few panels for the time being to make it stand out a bit and i love offending the OEM homos.

[Jim320i]

I love offending the OEM homos.

I like that. Think i'll add that to my sig.

[tonybtonyb]

Looks pretty cool

[The_Haywood]

[magpie]

Brave!

[The_Haywood]

i know majority won't like it
just something a lil different to norm (i know it's been done before but who cares) it's only staying until winter time when it'll be resprayed this colour...



but here's a couple more pics....

[oldroydsr4]

I like the Breyton.. Bumper looks shit imo, it's turning into a big white blob

I tend to agree with this.

[The_Haywood]

I like the Breyton.. Bumper looks shit imo, it's turning into a big white blob

I tend to agree with this.

yeh i was starting to think it too hence being on the hunt for a new bumper... i'm just going to modify the bump strip now to smooth out the number plate recess

[The_Haywood]

After much umming and aaahing over whether or not to go balls out on the beemer or just cut ties with it and buy a different car... I chose a new car so picked up a 2001 Passat Estate 1.8turbo... Insurance is LESS than the e30... But i was left with a car in primer and needing painting (the e30) so would NEVER sell in that state, so i have brought it into work and yesterday morning it looked like this....









Into this at about 1am this morning...





















Just need to flat the blemishes and mops it... and also paint my panels.... and bloody midges LOVE this colour... gotta nib them all out

and finally the new Passat

[kitch]

Sad times

[The_Haywood]

Wow that last update got loads of replies... Going to take ages to get through them all haha

Anyway, my tailgate and doors are now painted and refitted... The rebuilding process has begun










Just a few more things and then its on to the mechanical side

[CaesarBob]

Should look good when it's all back together.

Are those G60 rims with or without spacers?

What happened to the mouse brown renault shade?

[The_Haywood]

They're without spacers dude.

I just quickly sprayed it white as its going now... I'm getting quoted around £1800 fully comp for a 21 year old 1.8 8v and around half as much for a 1.8turbo passat estate 11 years its juniour... And i been offered £1k for the e30 upon completion so i'd be a fool to turn that offer down

[GemE30]

Looks good dude! Makes me miss mine

[The_Haywood]

cheers Gem... just a couple lil bits left to sort now... i.e another front bumper and a new spoiler.... oh and a new rear quarter window as i accidentally dropped it haha EPIC fail on my behalf

[The_Haywood]

Just an update.... decided to keep the touring and am happy to report it is 99% finished....

just got to get the spoiler fitted but atm it's taxed, mot'd and insured and i'm off to star city shortly so will get a load of pics today

[The_Haywood]

right here's the pics..... I fully accept it's on stilts and springs are coming.... i am also ditching the coloured kidneys.... just wanted to see what they look like... and i'm expecting sheer hatred on the wheels but i like them











And finally a pic of probably my favourite part of the car... My headlining...



Still not 100% complete... need to heat up my spoiler for a bit of flexibility to fit it and it desperately needs lowering.... also in the pics there is a bit of trim missing.... i have now found this and refitted it (left it at the unit the car was sprayed at)

opinions welcome

[Jhonno]

Still not a fan of the white blob look..

Nowt wrong with the wheel colour imo. They aren't even massively offensive in style.

Will look loads better dropped.