i had a thought while i was thinkin about painting my car. see i want to be different but not too different like "hey cops here i am!" so i was thinkin what if i took off the side trim? any ideas on how that would look. i am affraid of it ruining the e21 look too much which is one of my faves. opionons and if you have them picture are much appriciated :dunno

Well I don't have any pics (just to lazy to google the stuff), but IMO a bumper tuck, paint job (black?) and replace the trim with new stuff would make the car look nice and clean.

I was thinking of doing it too. I searched for pics a while back, found some, and changed my mind. It doesn't look bad at all, but as for personal preferance, I like the more stock look. But my mind still isn't made up.

Heres a guy with no bumpers and no mouldings in Lebanon... looks awesome. Exactly what i would do. To each his own tho...

any pics of the rear?

that Lebanese Bimmer is like WHOA! Do eet!

Here's a pic of the back... btw the interior is gutted and he's running a 3.5 engine from an old 7 series.. and i think it might be turbo'd :) ... talk about keeping it sideways lol

from the back it kinda looks like a boat i dunno if i like the no bumber look

from the back it kinda looks like a boat i dunno if i like the no bumber look
I agree, don't really care for the no rear bumper.
But damn, that's a sick car. It looks great without the trim too.

well now i deff wanna take off the side trim what do you think i should do with the fron t and rear bumpers leave or take off

ok so heres the status.....its still in planning but what does everyone think of me repainting my car the stock metallic-graphite and painting all my chrome black and putting black and white roundels on it



heres an example from one guy who did something like it

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If anything should stand out, it should be the roundels. Leave em blue and buy nice shiny new ones.

do it!!! Colour coding the crome is the way to go. have you thought about a carbon fiber roundel?? would look good with the paint.
Mines in the shop now getting the front end sorted out. then its going a colour i like to call rasberrycoke in the next couple of months or so.
Good luck. it should look vey nice indeed

do it!!! Colour coding the crome is the way to go. have you thought about a carbon fiber roundel?? would look good with the paint.
Mines in the shop now getting the front end sorted out. then its going a colour i like to call rasberrycoke in the next couple of months or so.
Good luck. it should look vey nice indeed

i have looked at the carboin fibre but where would i find them because i would really like to put those on:buttrock

check out ebay. there is a guy on a website over here called trademe. check it out trademe.co.nz and just search roundel. he is selling them for 85 nzd that works out to be about $52 usd. if he wont send them to you i can be the middle man.

alrighty sweet if i need some help ill let you know

what about finding a carbon fiber roundel tho

dude look at the site. NZ only has like 4mil people in it we are small. If you searsh roundel in trademe motors it only comes up with like 3 pages and the one of the carbon auctions is in the 1st page.

wait what site?

trademe.co.nz

ok cool ill check it out soon

sweet as. i am going out now to put my new wheels on as i just got her back . i cant wait.

Its not like putting black roundels on a car is worth anything. Anyone with $7 and 5 mintues can do this, big deal.

Its not like putting black roundels on a car is worth anything. Anyone with $7 and 5 mintues can do this, big deal.

whta mean...its not worth it to buy some?

DON'T leave those bumpers on man and paint em black. I did it on mine just for the first few weeks i had it cause its better then chrome, but your getting a paint job so its different. UNless ur putting on euro bumpers, then painting the bumpers black is SICK! But if ur keeping on the north american bumpers painting em black wont really matter, itll still look bad (they kill the look of the car). Dont get fooled by the picture of the e30, that has plastic bumpers its a completely different look. Whatever, its just my opinion, but id either get rid of those bumpers cause ur already doing paint so itll be cheap, or put on some euro bumpers and paint em the same as the car or keep em chrome, they look good either way. Good luck with the project :cool

DON'T leave those bumpers on man and paint em black. I did it on mine just for the first few weeks i had it cause its better then chrome, but your getting a paint job so its different. UNless ur putting on euro bumpers, then painting the bumpers black is SICK! But if ur keeping on the north american bumpers painting em black wont really matter, itll still look bad (they kill the look of the car). Dont get fooled by the picture of the e30, that has plastic bumpers its a completely different look. Whatever, its just my opinion, but id either get rid of those bumpers cause ur already doing paint so itll be cheap, or put on some euro bumpers and paint em the same as the car or keep em chrome, they look good either way. Good luck with the project :cool

where and for how much could i get some euros because i have been interested in them

there's a guy on ebay selling a pair of used ones, there not listed on ebay tho. they have slight surface rust on em tho, but no dents or holes, which is ideal if your gonna paint em. He asked me to make him an offer but i didnt, so i dunno how much hes letting em go for. But if you want, PM me and ill will try and get you his contact.

If you want new ones you can get em from bavauto.com. $700 for the complete set (front and back), plus shipping and stuff.

there's a guy on ebay selling a pair of used ones, there not listed on ebay tho. they have slight surface rust on em tho, but no dents or holes, which is ideal if your gonna paint em. He asked me to make him an offer but i didnt, so i dunno how much hes letting em go for. But if you want, PM me and ill will try and get you his contact.

If you want new ones you can get em from bavauto.com. $700 for the complete set (front and back), plus shipping and stuff.

how much do you think for the ones on ebay?

white bumpers on my car? ....nahhhh don't think it looks that good

nvm look on next one

well im goin the stobk metallic graphite

dunno how much for the ones on ebay. He said just make me an offer. Shipping to toronto was 95 pounds tho i know that. But id say if u offer him 100 US he should take it for sure.