Whitey

Its been quite a while since I've done anything major to the ride so decided to look into getting some new shoes. The style of wheel I am looking at are the lower 2 pics (similar to BBS LMs), the first pic being my existing setup.

I'd kinda caught the "black wheel-on-white-car" bug after Alex's (ex) ride but I realize with black wheels, I'll probably need a tint (as a minimum) and I don't wish to lose my current blue tint...so I'm kinda torn and need some input - should I:

1)Keep my existing rims;
2)Go silver; or
3)Black, no tint?

Any opinion will be greatly appreciated, thanks guys!

PhilipM1

Debag the rear, paint the emblems black, stick em back on. Tint the windows, get the black with chrome lip rims, Possible black out the tail lights.

Once you do the black tint/rim combo, you might actually like it mroe then the blue stuff.

If im not mistaken, the blue, is dyed glass, so if you really hate the black tint, take it off. I dont know how much your planning on spending, but tint will go for 150ish, take it off about 75 i think. Im sure you'll like it, it looks so clean.

Whitey

I hear you Phil, I might have done it a couple fo years ago but right now I don't plan on doing much more to this car..its considered old here so am looking for a next project but I can't find anything else I that I want at the moment....

Alexbenz

middle one....i told you already....looks way too clean

Ben'z

Hi, Dave,

How is going?

I like the one on your car now.

Take care,
Ben

Whitey

Alex I do agree, but the more I look at it the more the black wheel thing is growing on me . Having just looked at the wheels in person, the decision is most probably to change...whether its silver, gunmetal or black, its another matter ...

Hi Ben, you know how it is, there goes the old chinese proverb - "the neighbour's rice is always more fragrant" (and the same goes for their women too lol)

ReZzZ320

3rd choice with black badges jus like me

BTW where the hell have you been all this time??

Pjudd1

I like the rims you have now. If you sell the PM me.

-Judd

p.s. Tell me about your suspension.

Whitey

Rezz, been busy with work...

Judd, I'm on Eibach Pro-kit springs (Euro version - totally different to what you guys have) and Bilstein Sprint (aka Sport) shocks.

jimmydagreek

Davey boy! I can't believe I missed your thread. Busy with work huh? Me too but back in here like crazy sometimes, lol.

So, although I love the wheels on your ride now, I will have to agree with Alex and go with pic #2. I just love the look of those wheels on your car...

What are those btw, hmmmm???

SaMaS

Nice car, why would you whant to spend on it if you looking for new project better save for new baby , it looks good as it is

Whitey

Thanks SaMas. I am still trying to figure out why Alexbenz did what he did and just sold the thing right afterwards. ..

For me, I guess its boredom and not foreseeing any newer models improving in terms of quality, so would like to play just a bit longer with the car and also test out a new brand of wheel that was introduced recently.

Jimmy, I was beginning to think you'd abandoned me Sent you PM just now...

jimmydagreek

Hahaha, NEVER!!! Just got your PM and responded. I'm looking in to the info and we'll get back to you STAT!

Alexbenz

don't remind me why i did it again.....i'm starting to forget.........lol but it happenes and i kinda wished i didn't go through all that crap because i really didn't enjoy it even though i still get props on it even though i don;t have it anymore

lxl_Jeffro_lxl

I'm assuming you used photoshop to see what the wheels would look like? That is a good idea, you should teach me that because I want to see what mods would look like on my car =P

jimmydagreek

Yeah, Whitey is our resident photoshop master...

Alexbenz

jimmy----bro whats crackin!!!

hey i need some help finding a c36.....local would be great or a dealer that can bring one here.....

let me know

jimmydagreek

Call me!

SaMaS

hey Alexbenz, I remember showing your car pictures to my girlfriend, and explaining all the nice work you did on you car, and she goes ... so he expended fenders to fit bigger wheels ? did you ?

Alexbenz

LOL..........not bigger....wider...... i did more work but it was a project that i wanted to do for 3 -4 years prior and whitey(dave) helped me out with the project and without his help with photoshoping made my dream of thew project come to life......

thanks dave, hoping in the future we'll do something again

Alexbenz

i'll hit you up on my lunch break tommrow

Whitey

I guess the photoshopped widebody W210 had everyone fooled eh Alex

Sure, would love to do another project with you bro

Alexbenz

hahahhaa.........i wish, my pockets weren't fooled though.....

only thing that sucks is the other cars that i like all have been done up some way......w210 was nice to do something new and different to it so i have no clue what to do so i thought i'm just going to get a c36 and drop it and keep it stock until i say up for maybe a e60 m5

Whitey

Haha...

The C36 is a good idea and if you ever go down the E60 route, remember there is a readily available wide-body kit for the M5 by G Power so you won't need to wait 18 months for someone to make it ..if you can't get it, I can help

Alexbenz

ahhaah.,......yea i know, theres also a widebody from hamann and lumma......

but i wanted to do a car widebody only if no ones done it before or a few people or custom one off.......

but we'll see, damn c36's are hard to find close to home and i need to call jimmy to see what he can do, i forgot to call him today