My Exterior Mods are Totally Finished - Mini Shoot
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So I picked up my car on the 30th of August 2012 and while at first, I was in love with everything about it, I later decided to start a modding spree which has recently come to an end.
Today I spent around 3 hours cleaning it, mostly inside, so decided to take it a mile from my house to take some photos of it.
My most recent work is as follows:
Tinted front headlights and rear white tailights 10%.
Fitted Hong Kong ordered 2010+ style lights on it and left them black to go with the theme of the car.
Foiled the tail light surrounds.
Put a foiled roof spoiler on the rear.
Debadged the star logo of the boot and painted the AMG emblem the same color as the callipers I had painted.
Put new 19" SLS style wheels on with 285s on the rear and 245s on the front (almost flush).
Foiled the roof black.
Foiled the grille black.
Painted the mesh on the front bumper.
Did a resonator delete with stainless steel straight pipes and later did a secondary cat delete with X pipes.
Had an OE Tuning tune to run 98 ron fuel and a few other things.
Love everything about this car but I am not quite decided on the chrome star on the grille? Should I black it completely out? What do you think?
If I do decide to do anything else with this, it will be a supercharger but that won't be for a while now.
Today I spent around 3 hours cleaning it, mostly inside, so decided to take it a mile from my house to take some photos of it.
My most recent work is as follows:
Tinted front headlights and rear white tailights 10%.
Fitted Hong Kong ordered 2010+ style lights on it and left them black to go with the theme of the car.
Foiled the tail light surrounds.
Put a foiled roof spoiler on the rear.
Debadged the star logo of the boot and painted the AMG emblem the same color as the callipers I had painted.
Put new 19" SLS style wheels on with 285s on the rear and 245s on the front (almost flush).
Foiled the roof black.
Foiled the grille black.
Painted the mesh on the front bumper.
Did a resonator delete with stainless steel straight pipes and later did a secondary cat delete with X pipes.
Had an OE Tuning tune to run 98 ron fuel and a few other things.
Love everything about this car but I am not quite decided on the chrome star on the grille? Should I black it completely out? What do you think?
If I do decide to do anything else with this, it will be a supercharger but that won't be for a while now.
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Thanks Pelican
Thank you Sir. Hope you love your new ones as much as I love these
The offset of the rear wheels are et35? What width? When you say fenders, did you mean the rear quarters? Fenders are in the front and quarter panels are in the rear.
Thanks for that. I didn't realise fenders were just the front. Learn something new every day. As for the rear wheels, yes ET35 on the rear with a 9.5" width. The car came with the widened custom arches. I myself didn't notice it much until I put it up against another C63 and noticed. The job was very well done.
Thanks for that. I didn't realise fenders were just the front. Learn something new every day. As for the rear wheels, yes ET35 on the rear with a 9.5" width. The car came with the widened custom arches. I myself didn't notice it much until I put it up against another C63 and noticed. The job was very well done.
Thanks khmergod. Still need to think on this one as well as the star on the grille.VERY nicely done! I would black out the star but thats a personal preference.
I would also kill the green emblems and make them all black but they do match the calipers so I understand where you are coming from. I just think its a bit much on the car.
Its your car so keep it the way you want. Again, very nicely done!! ENJOY!!!
I would also kill the green emblems and make them all black but they do match the calipers so I understand where you are coming from. I just think its a bit much on the car.
Its your car so keep it the way you want. Again, very nicely done!! ENJOY!!!
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That said, I took off the BS and AMG green logos last night and replaced it with a real CF AMG badge so I didn't run too many colors on the body.
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Your car is awesome, I was in Dubai last year had a great time so many beautiful cars. is your car lowered?
I wanted to know what trunk spoiler you have? Is that the boca spoiler?
I wanted to know what trunk spoiler you have? Is that the boca spoiler?
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Thanks for the compliment
Yes, it's a Boca carbon fiber boot spoiler. I would have liked to lower it by an 1" but unfortunately the roads are not perfect over here and the front bumper/lip is already only about 10cms off the ground.
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I was going to make the same comment about the BS badge. Nice to see you changed it out.
I really like these rims on your car. The car overall looks very mean.
Do you think the exhaust tips stick out a little too much?
I really like these rims on your car. The car overall looks very mean.
Do you think the exhaust tips stick out a little too much?
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I didn't even actually notice about the tips until you mentioned it. They definitely do look like that in the pic. Will see in person on the car tomorrow. They are the stock exhausts so will see. The only thing I can think is they perhaps were pushed out during the resonator delete. Will see about the clamp positions tomorrow.
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I think you mentioned before that your car was imported from the US. Is that because it's significantly cheaper to buy a car from here and transport it there, rather than buying a used one in Dubai? Do you not get taxed when you import a car over?
Also, did you replace the front bumper, as it doesn't have those idiotic North American corner lights.
Also, did you replace the front bumper, as it doesn't have those idiotic North American corner lights.
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Yes Sir, the bumper has been changed. It's somewhat cheaper to import. For example if I import a car it will cost me about $3000 with all fees. So for example, over here, clean imported US spec 09 cars with 30,000-35,000 miles costs $44,000. This takes into consideration shipping etc. If it's a local spec car then you're looking at $53,500 for a clean local spec car.
There's a bit of money to be made in importing however the resale of US spec cars vs GCC spec cars is always lower and US spec cars are always harder to sale. The differences? MPH vs KMH. Farenheit vs Celcius, Navigation, Radio frequency channels etc
There's a bit of money to be made in importing however the resale of US spec cars vs GCC spec cars is always lower and US spec cars are always harder to sale. The differences? MPH vs KMH. Farenheit vs Celcius, Navigation, Radio frequency channels etc
