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Post Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:28 am

lovin that front cotty!!!!!!!!!
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Post Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:34 am

Black kidney,no droopy eyebrows winkeye

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Post Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:14 pm

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The Alpina sticker i think keep, i like it. The light brow i don't think you should go dark, instead make the kidney grill white, head and fog lights smoked and get shot of the amber indicators, cars nice tho mate

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Post Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:25 pm

yeh mate i really like the bottom look, not too sure about the white grill tho, the edit uve done looks ace, really gave me inspiration. defo gona get those lights smoked out! where can i get smoked fogs and indicators from??? or can i modify them myself? cheers tommy
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Post Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:46 pm

i'm not sure about the fog's, you must be able to buy them, as for smoking the rest theres a artical on here for the headlights (do it your self style) and get a can of rear light tint for a tenner and spray all your indicators. I did all mine, rear light included, smoked headlights are on the way

sort me out another couple of pics to chop, the white kidney would be different
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Post Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:33 pm

wont the yelow plastic still show through from the indicators?

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Post Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:54 pm

only very very slightly, this is a pic of my rear light ocne were as normal as anybodys, now with a tenners worth of spray (side's and fronts look the same) and you can still see all the lights very clearly though it

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I'll do some photo edits tonight for you mate
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Post Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:04 pm

wow that does look pretty stealth. not too sure if the paint can be laid on that thick on the front headlights. tommy
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Post Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:14 pm

your light brows are slightly off the colour of your car, may just be the light but making them match and your kidney grill would go well, imo only of course.

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as for the headlight tinting, no you only spray parts of the inside, no glass, here's the artical

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name ... hhella.htm

fog lights, not sure may only be able to be bought, think i will take them to bits first see what i can do first
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Post Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:25 pm

Loose the brows, just black the grill. Def get rid of the Alpina graphics. imo of course! :D
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Post Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:35 pm

Seeing as you're just painting bits which can be repainted, why not try the different ideas for real for a week each or so? They'll all look different in the flesh and you might find one of the options grows on you.

I'll ignore my own advice though to suggest you lose the eyebrows, as they look best on Golfs, go for clear indicators at the front and a matt black kidney grille. Keep the Alpina script and open up the vents in the valance. Just my two pennorth, feel free to ignore.
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Post Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:12 pm

keep kidney the chrome paint the brows black
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Considering Selling the Cabby, looks like its gonna go
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Post Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:27 pm

paint the grill black and leave the eyebrows white or try taking them off and see how they look. on some E30's they just dont look right, i like them personally, but thats only on my black car?! they dont look bad on your E30 either. but black grills all the way mate

and please please please dont put an m-tech 2 rear bumper on your beautiful convertible... it will look absolutely awful! i LOVE the tech 1 kit so much, i think the lines are far better than the tech 2 kit. if you get cliffy to send you some photos of the rear of his, you'll see just how nice the tech 2 kit really is. your cabby is fabulous and a tech 1 bumper will finish it off

oh, and lose the alpina logog!! :wink:
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