Trigger happy E39

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Hello and welcome dear thread scrollers!

I've almost have owned my whip for 2 years now and it's been through a lot of phases and many more to come.
The car in question is a 2003 BMW 530ia E39 that came with M-sport package from the factory, me and my dad swapped cars because i wanted more power! My old car was a manual 525i -03 m-sport that was pretty much mint condition, around 13000km.

This was how i got my "trigger" stock as fuck!


Went to work and plastidipped my wheels, tinted headlights and shit, turned out pretty gangsta




Winter came, got some Led's up front


Spring came with new wheels, and springs hehe



Although they're fake split i got them dirt cheap for being 19"x9,5" Keskin, around 600$ for all four.

I like them alot!


Went and shot some guns with my gun crazy american cousin haha


Springs came to make it a bit lower


Still major wheelgap so coils is up on the bucket list for next season!

Still looks mighty clean, just how i like it



My girlfriend wanted a cat, and i wanted car parts, so we got two cats




Yea that's pretty much how it was at the end of this season
More to come! Cheers for now!

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Not much has happened during the autumn, went a bit wild an bought a really shitty E28 520ik which i thought was a good project ( got it for like 100$ )

Had it for a few months, drove up and down the road outside my work and realized just how bad it was! Rust everywhere and there was fluffyfungus stuff on the seats, eew
Didn't have time or space for it so i had to scrap it because nobody wanted to buy it :S maybe i regret it in the future but there was no other choice, all the potential buyers was reeally not serious.
I had 3 cars at one time atleast haha (the audi is mine also)


Bought some winter tyres and put them on some 16" rims i had laying around


Winter mode activated! Time to go out and plow with my lip

Went out and explored the grass outside the apartment

Looks kinda funny when your'e out taking a walk with a indoorcat

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Update, my frontlip got in a fight with some curbstones when my gf was driving it and got real messed up, cracked the frontspoiler aswell. But i don't really mind, just minor battlescars, soon the car will hopefully pass the car inspection and after that car tax have to be payed then coilovers will be inbound.
Gonna have to figure out what kind of tyres i need for my 19"

Picture of how the lip looks

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Had to change the headlights for the car inspection, found some used ones but real matte so i had to wetsand them, took a while but they came out like new!
The cat had to taste the lamps


superhappy for the outcome


Changed the brakelines also because #hellarust


now I'm thinking about what tyres i need for better fitment and clearence for the front coils
I'm leaning towards 215/35/19 on all four


i got some 20mm spacers laying around so i will get ET0 on the wheels, might get a good fitment

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Update!!!

Finally got some coilovers!
Bought them from a friend who had bought them brand new and only had them on for a week.
Installed them up front, discovered that i need 8mm spacers just to fit my 19" with 245 tires.
Ride height up front, pretty decent but i need to lower it more and get skinnier tyres so i can turn haha


need to build a new skidplate up front because the stock plastic one hangs way to low
In the rear it's really good actually, need to roll the arches and then i can use my 245's



Gonna order some spacers, make a new skidplate from thick aluminium, skinny tyres and more lowering!

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Pretty crappy picture but put the wheels on, realized i needed bigger spacer.

And skinnier tyres as well

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Lookin better!



Because i have such wide tyres i had to cut in the rear fenders so they would fit with ET10
Up front it's tight, bottomed out front coils also, sad that they couldnt go lower

the fender is resting on the wheel while standing still and doesn't scrape too much except with passengers and going trough sharp corners really fast :P

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Got some cool pictures at work last week!




Haven't had time to wash it so dirty car hehe

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looking good