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Looks great! Time to order the black out grille.:cool:

ECS has free shipping on them too! I went with Titanium on my Topaz Blue 03 Sport though..

Looks better but could use alot more spacer. I went from 255s to 285s rear (15mm), 19x9F & 19x10R wheels with 10mm offset shift (ET) on F&R, 25mm H&R DRA spacers rear. Total shift of rear outer sidewall is 50mm.

It's amazing how spacers can change the personality of a vehicle sooo much.

Looking good!

The bulbous wheel flairs and lower body profile along with the inset wheels give Xs a totally lame "hovercraft" look that I could not stand for on my X, hence the drastic 50mm outward rear shift I chose to go with.

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Originally Posted by MINIz guy (Post 880907)

Pretty!

Thanks bud

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Originally Posted by z168 (Post 881153)

We seem to think the same lol

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Originally Posted by PropellerHead (Post 881162)

Exactly ours as well. Wife's '02 330, My '00 E39 (above), and my '04 4.8is.

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Originally Posted by kmagnuss (Post 881168)

I'm not very big on stretch and poke jobs... but damn that looks nice.

PS... I like that white 944 Turbo (951) the best. :)

Thanks... that's actually my friend's, love his Porsche collection.

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Originally Posted by FITZUNI (Post 881169)

03 E46 ///3 SMG:thumbup:

Nice

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Originally Posted by Rodie (Post 881172)

Nice cars! Welcome!

Thanks

Rings came today :woot:
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y65...m/834a54cd.jpg

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Originally Posted by sockethead (Post 881660)

I wrapped mine a couple of months ago and it's holding up well. Here's a post of mine that has pic of it. Let me know if you want to see more...
http://www.xoutpost.com/874682-post337.html

Overall it was pretty esay but the console was a bitch. You have to remove it to get the pieces off. Plenty of DIY around for the console removal...

Looks good! (and I typically dislike CF int. wraps)

I'm thinking about either going with brushed graphite like I did in my E46
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7...8e5aea5f_b.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5160/7...2c929dcf_c.jpg

or Brushed Charcoal Titanium (leaning towards this)
http://i515.photobucket.com/albums/t...h/DSC03706.jpg

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Originally Posted by Ricky Bobby (Post 881663)

you can DIY with a ribbon from pixelfix.net (i think its shipped from yugoslavia or something) and the instructions found on the net, from what i've heard its time consuming, and very precise work, but definitely DIY-able.

The gauge rings i'd save till when you fix the cluster, that way you only crack it open once.

Personally, I'm probably just gonna send my cluster to www.vdorepair.com and have them take care of that and the gauge rings one of these days, lifetime warranty and no worries about fading pixels again or that i screwed up my cluster.

Thanks for the help! I'm going to try to fix the radio's pixels first, it's driving me crazy lol

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Originally Posted by Bill Valley (Post 881706)

Looks great! Time to order the black out grille.:cool:

Thanks! I actually prefer chrome kidneys :p:

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Originally Posted by ECS Tuning (Post 881721)

It's amazing how spacers can change the personality of a vehicle sooo much.

Looking good!

Word. Thanks for the spacers by the way :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by bumere90 (Post 881734)

nice upgrade

Thank you