Edude

Hello Gents (and may be some ladies)....

I usually don't post pics of my rides (don't like to brag to much), but this is a new toy and it's coming together fairly nice. So what the hell...

The pics are taken with my iPhone, so my bad for crappy quality.
Enjoy!!!

EmE247

Looks sick. If I had a black w212, yours would b it. Tint the windows and tails and paint the sides to match to complete and post more pics. :p

Edude

Thank you! I am not a big fan of tint, but might consider very very light one. Still undecided. I am however waiting for the set of H&Rs from Tire Rack. They are on the national back-order... grrrrr!!!!

EmE247

Naw u gotta do medium or dark on the tint. Going black and u can't do it halfway.

Didn't even notice the drop or lack of. Must be 20s. You might get some rub with that setup.

Edude

I always liked the race looks on my cars and that meant no tint. But you are right the more I look at the car from the side, while the rear window shade is down which make the car interior appear darker, the more I like it. I just need to get used to the idea.

Yeh, those are 20's. I think I should be able to get it down 1.2/1.4 w/out any issues. MB fenders in my previous experience are fairly wide on the inside. If not, baseball bat... here I come

SRPE350

Looks good man...did you paint the exhaust pipes? I'm thinking about it....

Edude

Thanks! Yes, I did. Took some time, but came out nice. I used the heat resistant paint from the local Grand Auto 3 bolts on each side....

The only chrome part that's left on the exterior is the rear trunk star badge, which will be painted black as soon as my schedule allows me coupla hours

SRPE350

I'm going to paint mine too...and the diffuser. It looks nice dude...

Edude

Cheers!!!

SolidGranite

I personally LOVE the way the MB star looks chromed out against all that black. I would leave it. Some tint on the windows is a must however.

park423

looks good,
+1 on window tint, maybe also smoked or clear sidemarkers.

BenzoBoi

Very nice!

Edude

I meant to ask, does anyone actually make color matched side markers or people paint the orange OEM once to color match the car?

220S

I like that it's really clean with no trunk spoiler and all that sort of excess stuff. It's subtle and stealthy. You might even consider getting the upright star hole in the hood filled and painted (I've seen it done before.) That way you don't get the redundancy of the logo on the grill and then right there next to it on the hood. Or maybe try to find an aftermarket grill w/o a logo.

I'm still not excited about the W212 design, but one this looks a lot better. It looks a lot better in darker colors, imho.

I wouldn't do anything more to it, except to eventually drop the new 5.5TT motor in there....

p.s., yeah you do need to get the side markers replaced (easy to do.)

220S

btw, I think a big plus on yours is that you blacked out the chrome window trim (like the shadowline option you can get with BMW.) I just looked at some pics of the W212 and they're all chrome. I don't know why they went with chrome on the W212, but having them black is waaaay nicer (the previous version of the E had black anodized window trim.)

EDIT: I just looked at some pics of other people's W212s here and there's some with chrome and some black. So what's the deal with the W212. Can you order a shadowline sort of option? All the ones I've seen in person and driven were chrome, iirc. But I'm now seeing pics with both.....

park423

Not an option, blacked out all the chrome trim myself on my car as well

Edude

Thank you Sir! And you got that right I come from the long history of owning various BMW (I am proud to say that I owned every single M3 model at one point or another, from E30 to E90) and was always a huge fan of a sport package option that included shadow trim. The funny thing is that it was the very 1st thing that I did to the car (I only own it for 3 weeks or so). Matte black wrap on the windows and the trunk, plus the chrome door molding delete all around made a big difference IMHO. Thanks for the kind words. I cannot wait till the TireRack makes H&R springs available again so that I can close that fender gap

220S

Yeah, it was your car that I first noticed it. So I wondered if it was an option since all the rest I've seen are chrome. Looks really good

I still have an E46 that's kind of my beater car now. It has the sport pkg and shadowline trim plus just about all the options available back then. I bought it new in 2002 and it's still running great (it's not the M but a 330i.) Still a lot of fun in the back twisties. (I also had a vintage 2002tii and a 3.0, too. )

Anyway, good job on the trim.

park423

U can get smoked side markers on eBay, that's where I got mine, they look basically black

Ctrl+alt+Elite

looks sweet man, nicely done and very subtle. i'm gonna have to agree with the other peeps here, go for some tint

clmulli

She's looking good. By the way I noticed the flat hood badge that u mention in a previous post. Bought mine from jbspeed. Flushes the surface really nice.

Gsc

Nice ride, s that a 4matic?

What are the dims on the wheels and tires?

gohan

you removed the ugly chrome strip on the door! nice!

SolidGranite

Keep the pictures coming when you make more changes! I think everyone here will be interested in seeing. I also think you should have some nice shots taken with an SLR by someone who knows photography.

EmE247

U can buy some tinted side markers either on eBay or from your local shop, or have the oem ones from your car painted to match. I got mine painted.