Ben G
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Originally posted by BeetleGav
I agree with being one of the best off here!
Looks fantastic, seriously makes me want a supercharger on my z4 
You can't. You spent all your pocket money on dub suspension and cadburys sponsorship.
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boylers11
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How much did she want you to foster her after that!?
Car looks, sounds and goes great, top work!
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BeetleGav
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Originally posted by Ben G
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Originally posted by BeetleGav
I agree with being one of the best off here!
Looks fantastic, seriously makes me want a supercharger on my z4
You can't. You spent all your pocket money on dub suspension and cadburys sponsorship.
still possible, there's always a way
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chris_uk
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Cheers fellas.
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SteveoBC
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Originally posted by Ben G
No shit, it's brand new paint against old paint. Well done sherlock.
still doesnt mean you cant get a good match numb nuts
you are always going to get colours being off shade if they paint the parts in isolation, especially with the car not being there for reference and defintately in either red/yellow/silvers. Manufacturers have about 4 different shades for most colours anyway, even the time of year affects the shade of the colour of a car when it leaves the factory
ideally you need to blend into the doors but for cheap and cheerful painting the clam shell on its own is fine, does look slightly off shade but then people are not going to see it standing still for long lol
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Kyle T
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Looks great Chris!
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chris_uk
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What i did is gave the guy who mixed the paint part of the top of the clam where the louvres were. The bonnet matches almost perfectly but tge sides obviously have had less sun.. Ideally i should of got the paint matched from the side and get the bobbet sprayed with the clam but i couldnt get that done for reasons as to why it only cost me £20 to get sprayed.
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SteveoBC
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Originally posted by chris_uk
What i did is gave the guy who mixed the paint part of the top of the clam where the louvres were. The bonnet matches almost perfectly but tge sides obviously have had less sun.. Ideally i should of got the paint matched from the side and get the bobbet sprayed with the clam but i couldnt get that done for reasons as to why it only cost me £20 to get sprayed.
for £20 i would live with a slight paint shade difference...cant say fairer than that for the money, looks fine to me, spesh considering what you paid
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chris_uk
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Needed to fix my bonnet as it just rotted away. 
Stripped down te catch and cleaned it up.
made up a carbon plate to cover the lot.
All on
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chris_uk
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Cleaned the numberplate lights up today.
Cleaned,
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Ben G
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State of those lights like the bonnet lock, looks cool.
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chris_uk
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Never been cleaned in 7 years haha.
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chris_uk
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ive noticed as of late that the car seems quite low, i did think that because its been raised for 10 months i might just not of been used to seeing it on its feet.. so out came the ruler..
as it sits now
Front = 85mm and should be 110mm
Rear = 107ish and should be 120mm
so tomorrow i will have the task of raising the suspension..
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MatthewR
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Id this due to the wheels change?
Looks mean as fcuk!!
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chris_uk
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yea the side walls on these new tyres are different, these are not as thick, so i assume that's what has done it.
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MatthewR
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Ben G
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How comes you've still got the protective plastic over the headlamps?
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chris_uk
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Im getting some armourfend delivered which im going to use to cover the lights so they cant get damaged. So ill leave the peel on as long as i can to reduce the risk of shit getting underneath the film.
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BeetleGav
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Think all it needs now are some lightning McQueen stickers 
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chris_uk
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Been done.
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anthcorsa
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Just read through this and must say Chris this is by far the nicest vx220's i've ever seen. Looks mint on those rims and sitting that low. Great progress.
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chris_uk
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Cheers, im just sorry half of the pics are gone, i must try finding them afain and reuploading them.
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Kyle T
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You're letting us all down Chris, get it sorted
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chris_uk
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MOT tonight..
Hope ive not forgotten anything.
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chris_uk
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Random pic.
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