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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:50 pm

Was tempted to go for marrakech brown, my paint is absolutely fucked, its ruined and the car needs sprayed or its going to rust savagely. I want something unique but also wanna go for a germany DTM look. So iv decided on the reiger infinity splitter, maybe a squarish m3 style rear bumper and spoiler. Got my friend to photoshop the colour onto a car with the m3 spoiler. This is tech 2ed and not quite how id have it but its getting there, the colour is right.

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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:30 pm

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not sure what colour wayne's cab is but it's nice .
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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:34 pm

Everyones gonna be doing the Marrakech Brown :mad:


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Great colour though :cool:
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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:23 pm

Wasn't this the car that was described as "absolutely mint" when purchased?
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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:32 pm

I quite like the colour.

Although you have to take into account the cost of a respray.

For a proper job its between 2-3k for a full spray... which it will need if changing the colour properly.

and your car is a 320i?

for that sort of money you could get a nice 325i ... or a massive lucky bag of drugs

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Post Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:43 pm

ahahah bab you crack me up. I dunno il see, dads got a friend who said hed do it for very very cheap. itl be getting m52 late next year if all goes well
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Post Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:49 pm

That isn't soooo bad.

I would like to do a full respray in the next few years.... maybe an acid dip.


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Post Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:06 pm

My 325 cab colour is called Bergondrot matalic. It is a genuine BMW ccolour.
On a sunny day it looks a dark red. on a cloudy day it looks brown.
Hope that helps with your colour choice
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Post Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:07 pm

verde wrote:my paint is absolutely ******, its ruined and the car needs sprayed or its going to rust savagely.
Interesting logic :mad:
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Post Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:59 pm

verde wrote:ahahah bab you crack me up. I dunno il see, dads got a friend who said hed do it for very very cheap. itl be getting m52 late next year if all goes well

FFS :roll:
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Post Sun Oct 14, 2012 9:57 pm

This is advice not criticism . Dont bother until youve got some experiance in ya bag before painting it ;) that is all .
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Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:20 am

Kedge wrote:
verde wrote:my paint is absolutely ******, its ruined and the car needs sprayed or its going to rust savagely.
Interesting logic :mad:

The clearcoat is missing from the entire roof. So the rains going to rot holes in my roof, severalr parts of the arch and a few other patches. Its got worse in the cold and has really begun to flake and peel. Id rather fix it befoee I need a new shell


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Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 7:23 pm

For the price of a good respray you may as well replace the car.
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Post Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:09 pm

e30den wrote:For the price of a good respray you may as well replace the car.
Can nobody read. Im getting it sprayed for like 500 bucks if that. Why replace a car with nothing else wrong with it and no rust for the sake of not resprayi.g it
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