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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:13 pm

First E30 M3 on air in the WORLD!!! Teaser video before the completion of the rest of the car. All will be unveiled this weekend at Ultimate Dubs.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=832772263404376

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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:24 pm

bit of a statement that :?
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:33 pm

sorry not a fan.

I do like bags on the right car and I love E30 M3's but the two should never mix, owning an M3 is all about enjoying the great handling and owning a true drivers car, bags will spoil all this leaving you with bit of a lame M3
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:37 pm

Obviously the owner is not a driver or planning on using the car for any real driving experience.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:40 pm

Nice way to undo all of motorsports hard work
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 4:55 pm

On a positive note, at least a nice one wasn't molested :)
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:18 pm

pacerpete wrote:On a positive note, at least a nice one wasn't molested :)
:D thanks pete.
Look at it as though I've saved a potential breaker

All the air is reversible if I want to. (I don’t want to)

And handling isn't any worse than standard. In fact it's better. Its done properly on performance air. Maybe not as good as coilovers in terms of handling but for practicality and the novelty its better. A perfect compromise for me.

Thanks for all the love guys

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Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:20 pm

all that work and its dropped the cars value, impressive so people with sleeves and tight jeans think your sick? I'd rather eat shit than roll in that
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:24 pm

So when its at driving height how will you be able to tell??

Regarding value. This isn't a for sale thread. If I intend to sell it (which I highly doubt) it will go back to standard suspension.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:09 pm

NickE30singh wrote: Ultimate Dubs.
Thread and car neatly summed up in two words.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:13 pm

Oh dear
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:21 pm

Simon13 wrote:all that work and its dropped the cars value, impressive so people with sleeves and tight jeans think your sick? I'd rather eat shit than roll in that
Hahaha. :)
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:36 pm

that is seriously retarded, not just because it's an M3 but why would you do it to any car ? :mad:

it's also definitely not the first, some geezer in the states did it to his E30 m3 years ago.. he was a complete fu cking idiot too :)
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:45 pm

Oh dear how to fook up a m3. Must have more money than sense and no taste.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:57 pm

why???
if it's got t*ts or wheels it's bound to be trouble...............prove me wrong.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 6:58 pm

Love how people get worked up over stuff.

On a side note i'd fit some eyebrows just to really get on peoples titties...

Sick car bruv.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:03 pm

sunnyr83 wrote:Love how people get worked up over stuff.

On a side note i'd fit some eyebrows just to really get on peoples titties...

Sick car bruv.
and some spinning chrome rims at least 20's (just to make that statement)
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:08 pm

Has anyone here driven a car with air suspension? :D
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:09 pm

i'd just put the ///M badge in the wrong place ...now that will truly upset the homo's


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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:15 pm

JF008 wrote:Has anyone here driven a car with air suspension? :D
yes several and they have all been VW's surprisingly enough with the exception of a Seat which may as well be a VW anyway
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:17 pm

Drive a car on performance air with anti roll bars and all the good stuff then pass a judgement. :D
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:20 pm

I've driven a Lupo and a Leon with air ride and IMO both shit!

I'd never put air on my own car, each to there own.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:21 pm

Yeah every track day car is now switching to airbags man the "handling" is epic

Whats performance air? it pumps up quicker than normal air
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:23 pm

NickE30singh wrote:Drive a car on performance air with anti roll bars and all the good stuff then pass a judgement. :D
its got a hell of alot better over the years I'll give you that, air ride a few years back was like driving a car with marshmallows for wheels. Despite the fact its got better it still has no place on a proper drivers car its still just for show/showing off
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:44 pm

NickE30singh wrote:Drive a car on performance air with anti roll bars and all the good stuff then pass a judgement. :D
I would love that, I keep seeing them in magazines and wonder how a good kit would handle and feel.
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JF008 wrote:Has anyone here driven a car with air suspension? :D
Yes, my Range Rover
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:48 pm

Gert_8 wrote:
JF008 wrote:Has anyone here driven a car with air suspension? :D
Yes, my Range Rover
Is it shite? :D
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JF008 wrote:
Gert_8 wrote:
JF008 wrote:Has anyone here driven a car with air suspension? :D
Yes, my Range Rover
Is it shite? :D
It certainly wasn't a sports car.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:11 pm

Simon13 wrote:I'd rather eat shit than roll in that
Really?? 8O

Surely there's things in life that mean alot more than an E30 on air-ride to prompt such strong words!... lol
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Simon13 wrote:I'd rather eat shit than roll in that
Really?? 8O

Surely there's things in life that mean alot more than an E30 on air-ride to prompt such strong words!... lol
get it right we are talking an E30 M3 here, had it just been an E30, even a sport I'm sure hardly anyone would have had a bad word to say other than the huge OE homo's
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:25 pm

An air ride/ super suspension set up is ideal if ya live in southampton.

Those pony grids must rattle your brains out
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Gert_8 wrote:
JF008 wrote:
Gert_8 wrote: Yes, my Range Rover
Is it shite? :D
It certainly wasn't a sports car.

I know what you mean, the only experience I've had so far with air suspension is a 80something Buick, not a sport car either given the proportions.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:36 pm

I know a few Dub guys and yes the air suspension has got better but already expressed here it's still not good enough for a sports car.
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Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:06 pm

Not only is air suspension about as useful as a carpet fitters ladder, you'll look like a right pleb with that air compressor screaming away constantly refilling itself.

It's dumb.!!!
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