Moreira_C230

Ive been poking through the forum and notice that projector fog lights for the C230 Sport are somewhat hard to come by. I have been searching for the past few days, but have not yet found a set of projector fogs that definitely fit the amg front bumper. Does anyone know of a site/location that has them for sure? Ordered a set a week back, but it turns out they do not fit the sport, despite the fact that the site said they did. Any info or direction would be great.

Thanks

giannidy

Just took mine off to install halos.... I might sell em

Moreira_C230

PM me. If they are in good shape, Im interested.

Moreira_C230

Just pulled the trigger on Dinos quad projector setup. I have been in the market for a projector/HID combo for some time now and cant think of a better setup then that. I will get pictures posted as soon as they come in and when I get them installed.

Christmas is coming early this year

havoc_vulture

This is going to look sick!

Moreira_C230

I sure hope so. Dino is shipping it out this afternoon so it should be here in a few days time. I'm probably going to wait until after the holidays to install it....but knowing myself ill get the box and probably get right to it lol

EDIT: Since I will be taking the bumper and wheels off for this, I will also be cleaning the calipers and painting them red =P

Moreira_C230

Also, any thoughts to painting the bumper mesh some shade of silver. I have a black/silver theme going right now and am wondering how that would look with the the hyper silver F14s

phister

dunno about silver mesh. You should photoshop it first. I might stand out kinda off. But go for it and see how it is.

Moreira_C230

Take a look at the members thread who is selling the custom trunk setup along with the Mandrus Milleniums. The original post has a link to a site with pictures of his car which has it done. I think it looks sharp.

Anyways on the way into work I had two CEL codes.....and just when I thought I got everything figured out.

P0012: Powerstrain "A" camshaft position - Timing Over retarded Bank 1
P0272: Cylinder 4 Constribution/Balance (again).

Looks like shes going to need a checkup.....again.

phister

yeah grill doesnt look bad. Are you going to paint the fog bracket like he did too? I think it might stand out more if you left it black. I say go for it

Moreira_C230

So the headlights cam in today, and i have to say they look awesome. Here are a few pictures...

Moreira_C230

So thanks to a good friend of mine who took his christmas eve morning to help me out, we were able to get the new lights installed in about 3 hours. Would have been shorter had we figured out the trick to getting the damn bumper clip off

There was a bit of a scare when they were first installed.....nothing would work. no blinkers, not low/high beam, nothing. Then we got the right bi-xenon to work, nothing else....Turns out the power/socket for the lights needs to be rammed into the headlight assembly in order to get a good connection.

The projectors will still need a round or two of adjustments to get them just right, but they were pretty decently aimed from the get go.....again you did an amazing job Dino!

I took a few pictures along the way, but was in such a rush to get them done, I didnt take as many as I would have liked. I will snap a few pictured tomorrow of the finished product as well as the cutoff. Anyways, here are some pictures of the job.

havoc_vulture

Pretty SICK! i knew it
any cutoff pictures?

Moreira_C230

Like I said I didn't have much time to take many pictures yesterday because I had family coming over. They also ned to be adjusted so ill take a few before and afters

phister

I didnt even completely remove my bumper when I changed out my headlights, saved me a bunch of time. headlights look nice man. now SLAM that beast

d1no

Ahhhh this is coming together beautiful man, glad everything went all right and yes the connector thing scared me as well at first but you just have to "ram it hard" in there to get a good seal on the connector and it will give you no issues. Adjusting it should be easy too, hows the output compared to stockies? They look sexy on your car btw

d1no

Paint your calipers too and put some Brembo or Mercedes decals on em, itll look so nice.

Glyn M Ruck

Looking good. If you do spray your bumper grills then paint them hyper silver as well. Hyper silver actually has black toner in it to achieve the "look"

giannidy

Those are some sexy head lamps

Moreira_C230

I am actually planning on painting them red. I was going to get it done the same day I swapped the headlights, but I just ran out of time. It was also cold as hell, and the sooner I could get out of the cold the better. It was 23 degrees on xmas eve morning when I started.


They really are. All credit goes to Dino, I had the easy job of just installing them. I know I would not have the patience to solder and shrink wrap each connection.

Outkasted24

any updates on the headlights?
installed Pics?
night shots?

Moreira_C230

I will get on those as soon as I can. I know i've been promising them for a while, the time has just not been there, but I promise I will get some.

On another note however, I pulled the trigger on a set of KW V1 coilovers this afternoon. I picked them up for a great price from HPA motorsports and cannot wait to get them installed.

I will probably be doing a 1.5 inch drop in the front and a 1 inch drop in the back (more or less). The slammed look is not really my thing, just looking for get the perfect, narrow fender gap while maintaining the sexy front rake =P.

I will have pictures of them in the box and installed as soon as I can

Moreira_C230

So after placing the order, I have been pretty paranoid about the clearance that i'm going to have. Again the wheel/tire specs are as follows...

front: 18x8.5 ET32 225/40/18
rear: 18x10 ET36 265/35/18

I do not plan on slamming it by any means, but I am afraid there might be some issues all around.

Can the experts on this chime in? It would be much appreciated

phister

That's going to be a close fit since KW are a little bulkier than other coilivers. You can throw on a 5mm spacer up front and 5 or 10mm in rear and it should be ok.

Moreira_C230

Think it will really be that close huh? Well lets hope its not, otherwise ill have to wait till the spacers get in.