teamSPB Project Big Pimpin - Mercedes CLS

[teamSPB]

Awesome build, your CLS looks sick

By the way, that Focus RS looks damn good!

Thanks mate! Loving your C63 to! Thats what the brakes came off on my Focus!

[o9w211]

Not trying to bash or anything...

...but...

The black housed headlights cheapen the look imo. As much as I despise "murdered" out cars, you might as well black out the lower trim and the wheels to finish the "theme". Otherwise, I think if you put the stock headlights back on and left the single slat on the grill silver it'd probably flow better. Props on the paint work though.

[teamSPB]

Not trying to bash or anything...

...but...

The black housed headlights cheapen the look imo. As much as I despise "murdered" out cars, you might as well black out the lower trim and the wheels to finish the "theme". Otherwise, I think if you put the stock headlights back on and left the single slat on the grill silver it'd probably flow better. Props on the paint work though.

The OEM 'silver' lights look horrible IMO, and I don't like the murdered look also…hence the yellow fog lights, chrome fog light surrounds, chrome window surrounds and machine polished wheels etc

[teamSPB]

Recently I have noticed my headlights bulbs have been pretty poor at lighting up the road so I have been looking into getting replacements. I LOVE the Ring Sportz Blue bulbs I had in there, but thinking they have trouble with projector style lamps (As we have had this issue on a Corsa with projector style headlights), I decided to update the car further more. I wanted the bi-xenons but can't find them for the love of God!

I decided instead to use some 55w HID's in 6000k temperature/colour. Looks very OEM and looks exactly like the Xenon equipped cars. Further more, no error lights at all!

55w HID vs 80w Ring Sportz Blue




Next up, I wanted to change the wing mirror for later spec items, I found a set on offer and snapped them up!

Big thanks to 'television' for sending me the instructions on the wing mirrors!

Old vs New




Wing mirror covers removed and looking dirty


It was all washed down and given two layers of Poor Boys Bare Bones for protection

New mirrors on


LED lights on the bottom to fully working








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[zebra]

Love this body style. The car looks great!

[teamSPB]

Love this body style. The car looks great!

Thanks mate, what rims are in your sig?

[teamSPB]

As someone noticed, the number plate has been changed also…The new plate which spells out 'DROPPED' was bought as a birthday present and the plates themselves were sourced from a company in Northern Ireland.

However, when I received the plated, the rear one was off centre so I got a replacement sent out. FANTASTIC service when I initially ordered the plates (Ordered on friday or thursday and were were on saturday)…not so great when I wanted a replacement as it took around 7 working days to turn up!



Its only very slight but you did notice it on a small plate




Size comparison between stock plate and shortened plate

[Miroteknik]

I love this car so much.

What did you use to condition the leather with? My leathers are shiny, and slippery. Would really like to know how you fixed yours..

[brownishwater]

I absolutely fucking love this car.

Love the body style.

Love everything you have done to it.

Attention to detail is outstanding.

Amazing work.

I'm usually not a fan of black headlamp housings on black cars, but I think it looks great on yours.

[ThomB]

this car is so dope!
i like to know how you did the cleaning progress with the leather seats, want to do the same on my Volvo 850, which has shiny and very slippery seats.

[teamSPB]

The cleaning seats bit…the process went like this;

Wipe down seats with a damp cloth
Clean seats with a form of APC (All Purpose Cleaner), I used Megs APC. I used a bristle type brush to really get into the grooves of the leather and really worked it into the seat. Straight away you will notice the foam turning an off white as its lifting the dirt up. Wipe clean.
I then steamed the leather to help get rid of any other dirt and to help soften it up with the steam and heat.
Protection was added by using G-techniq L1 guard sprayed onto the seat and then wiped clean.

And the results achieved was as per picture.

It doesn't take long to do..rear seats took around 1-2hours as they were out the car, and about the same for the fronts.

[zebra]

Thanks mate, what rims are in your sig?

They are COR Cipher.

[teamSPB]

Its amazing where I started…



And where I am now!!

[a3 german]

it would look even better with amg bumpers and side skirts.

and without yellow fogs, imo


great work so far!

[xXp_ExoTiic_qXx]

Looks great.
And like a3 german said, add the amg bumpers.