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Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 09:45   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
all i had was a junior hacksaw and some masking tape. held it up when i had finished and it definitely looked better. it actually sits in the horizontal part of the bumper, rather than hanging down over the lower grille.

kyle being the fantastic bloke he is, measured his plate for me and gave me the dimensions so i'm going to order one from fancyplates. the measurements of my cut down one were 450x90mm, whereas his are 460x100mm, so only 10mm difference.

it also keeps the policeman happy unfortunately our legal system means having a smaller plate can result in £60 fines, which i'm not keen on getting.

[Edited on 27-01-2013 by Ben G]
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27th Jan 13 at 10:20   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Send me your old badges one of mines damaged on the indicator
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 11:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i'll send you them in the post still waiting on the indicator ones to come through the post.
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Good man I'm not sending you my sport seats in payment tho lol
kennySRi
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I used a jigsaw with my plate and is perfectly straight, cant say you've done the best of jobs I forgot you had a full sized reg number, would look much better with a cheap private plate on imo.

[Edited on 27-01-2013 by kennySRi]
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 15:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
A jigsaw would've been better

Smoothed the edges and lines on the plate so it's all legal until the new one comes through:



Car is proper filthy, hasn't been washed in ages. Also went down some extremely wet and dirty country roads and ended up at epping forest:





Put the steering wheel and tailgate badges on:





Unfortunately the bonnet one doesn't sit flush. I knew this before I got it as everyone has the same issue. Theres a bump on the bonnet plastic underneath with needs cutting down with the dremel. You can see the top doesn't sit properly here:



And finally got my magnetax holders stuck on as I had been driving around with no tax disc on show for more than a month (other one is my work pass):



And yes, I will be stealing any good ideas my cars twin brother (gav's) does
kennySRi
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27th Jan 13 at 15:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
The plate isnt legal by the way, you were meant to leave the top and bottom and just cut the sides down to match the gap, well that's what i thought you were planning on doing.

The badges are nice, although i do like the standard bmw badges
Kyle T
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27th Jan 13 at 15:49   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
As said, he's got a "proper" trimmed down plate on order which will have the required 11mm margin all the way around, like my avatar.

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kennySRi
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27th Jan 13 at 15:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ah i missed that bit, perfect then
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 16:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yeah I know it's not strictly legal in the sense it doesn't have a bs mark or plate manufacturer, but it's better than having no plate on at all.

Got my centre caps on. Easy job but the wheels need removing to pop the old ones out.
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I need new wheel badged but the wheels need refurbing first they will do for now, just the odd bubble in places.

Haha stealing ideas, I'm way behind you.
Think I'm keeping the tango look tho, I like it for some reason. Just want the white bit on the rear light doing in red. Don't like each light not matching
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 17:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yeah the orange bits in the rear light do date the car. red laminex or tint spray seem to be the best solutions, and i think the orange still shines through.
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Yeah I might try it on the rears. I like the orange in the front lights. Can't afford to fuck them up tho so Ill just leave them
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 17:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
true tbh i liked mine until i found a couple of cheap clear ones.

i only have halogen headlamps so wasn't hard to swap over. wouldn't be messing around with xenons though, they are worth a few bob!
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Yeah I have xenons so ill leave it be lol
Ben G
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lost a headlight bulb on the drive today so either 4300k or 6000k HID's will be ordered next week.

also decided to have another bash at the front badge. was advised by a member on a z4 forum that taking away some plastic from the sides of the badge would make it sit better (he had to do the same), so had a bash at it.

a much better result, sits near enough exactly the same as the original badge.
BeetleGav
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27th Jan 13 at 22:23   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
That's bloody filthy! Thought mine was a disgrace lol

Quite like the badges, there not too bad!

Is your steering wheel chunkier than mine? Looks it
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 22:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
it's really dirty. quickly done the focus before it got dark but didn't have time to do mine.

i have the Msport steering wheel which is chunkier and has the black spokes. bloke before me put it on. i don't know how a standard one feels so can't compare, but it looks nice.
BeetleGav
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It does look nice. I want it. Ill get a pic of mine at a similar angle.
I want yours tho, looks really comfy
Ben G
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27th Jan 13 at 22:59   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
seats for steering wheel seems a fair trade

Ian W
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The M-Sport wheel is much nicer than standard, a worth while mod
BeetleGav
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quote:
Originally posted by Ben G
seats for steering wheel seems a fair trade




Haha yeah fair
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28th Jan 13 at 09:04   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
get a slightly smaller front plate made up, that looks horrific


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Ben G
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quote:
Originally posted by Kyle T
As said, he's got a "proper" trimmed down plate on order which will have the required 11mm margin all the way around, like my avatar.
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well thats ok then

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