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delviacv2 08-04-2012 09:04 PM

Yesterday, new battery.

SlickGT1 08-04-2012 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cjallstar (Post 889653)
gotcha, new stuff is always good :D

btw taking opinions on what to do (if anything) with my grills? this goes for the lower front bumper as well as kidneys and upper hood... considering gloss black upper hood and kidney grills... not set on it though.

also removing roof rails? blacking out X5 badge on rear and rear roundel holder?

:dunno::dunno::dunno:

My car is black. When I blacked out my grills, it blended in too much. Looked stupid. Like the hood dissapeared and the bumper got bigger. It was strange. I'm back to the titanium ones.

Cjallstar 08-04-2012 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by XVII (Post 889655)
any pics??

here ya go!

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4290/sidevy.jpg

close up (sorry for bad quality)

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2585/closey.jpg[/URL]

decided to snap a couple of the front while i was at it...

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/3937/front2sd.jpg[/URL]

http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/638/frontdqi.jpg

FITZUNI 08-04-2012 11:54 PM

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Plasti dip the front grill.

Attachment 55375

DTMdan 08-05-2012 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by SlickGT1 (Post 889662)
My car is black. When I blacked out my grills, it blended in too much. Looked stupid. Like the hood dissapeared and the bumper got bigger. It was strange. I'm back to the titanium ones.

Exactly what I saw when I blacked mine out.

Cjallstar 08-05-2012 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by DTMdan (Post 889733)
Exactly what I saw when I blacked mine out.

Yea I understand what you guys are saying...I'm partial to leaving as is right now. Looks aggressive yet not overly tricked out. Maybe go with the 3.0 grills? Can't decide.:dunno::(

DTMdan 08-05-2012 01:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cjallstar (Post 889740)
Yea I understand what you guys are saying...I'm partial to leaving as is right now. Looks aggressive yet not overly tricked out. Maybe go with the 3.0 grills? Can't decide.:dunno::(

Here's what it'd look like if you plastidipped your kidney slats & lower grills matte black.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65...m/front2sd.jpg

I do like the titanium grills on the facelifts, not a big fan of em on pre-fl. though.

DTMdan 08-05-2012 01:42 PM

Finally got the new spark plugs installed this morning. When I got home from work on Thursday I started to put the new ones in, well the rubber piece at the bottom of the one ignition coil decided it liked it better in the plug hole. I worked on getting it out for like 2 hours and no luck, finally got it out Friday evening. The rubber seemed almost dry rotted and I had to destroy it to get it out so I just had Autozone order me a new ignition coil yesterday. The plugs that were in it looked pretty bad... I'm finding that the previous owners didn't do much maintenance to her.

Cjallstar 08-05-2012 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DTMdan (Post 889743)
Here's what it'd look like if you plastidipped your kidney slats & lower grills matte black.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65...m/front2sd.jpg

I do like the titanium grills on the facelifts, not a big fan of em on pre-fl. though.

Wow DTM thanks so much for the photoshop!:thumbup: While the black looks good to me it dulls the front end too much. Think I'll leave as is!

Ldiggs910 08-05-2012 09:00 PM

Well... The work was completed while I was away so I'm just getting around to posting pics but "today" I had my seats recovered. Wish I'd have taken b4 pics of the cracked leather ripped in two different spots (thanks True Religion). I took it back to have the center console done too bc as u can see in a couple of pics it looked totally out of place.

http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u.../IMG_12081.jpg
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u.../IMG_12031.jpg
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u.../IMG_12011.jpg
http://i638.photobucket.com/albums/u.../IMG_13171.jpg

Oh and I guess at some point I also added a slimline bass box that adds a nice balance to my sound system while sacrificing virtually no space (my center rear armrest is rarely used).

Link to more pics

http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...recovered.html


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