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Figured I might as well show my new daily.
I was building a E39 recently, but I ended up parting it out. I needed a new daily. I wanted something with a V8 again and something comfy.
I definitely wanted something different than a BMW this time, since I had only owned BMWs for the past 8 years or so and felt it was time for a change. So, even though I know they are good cars, that removed the 7-series E38 from my list of possible cars.
I started looking at Mercedes W140 S-Classes but all the ones in my budget were toast.
Next, I looked at Jaguars but couldn't really find one that I really liked, mostly because of some small issues.
I started looking at different offers... I was never a big Audi fan but I figured the A8 might be worth a look. I went and test drove one, found that I liked it and so I set out to look for an A8.
Found one a few days later...
It's a '99 4.2 quattro in Mingblau.
Comfy interior, black electric leather, heated seats, GPS, Bose hifi and more.
The previous owner already lowered it on 45 / 30 mm Lowtec springs. I'll keep those for the time being until I've got enough funds to go the air ride route.
When I picked it up:
Just a few days later, I managed to score some new wheels for it.
Audi Speedlines in 9x19 ET33 with 255/35s. Nothing extreme, but they'll do the job.
In the pics I fitted them with 10mm spacers up front and 15mm in the rear. The 10mm in the front ended up rubbing, so I swapped them to the rear. Now I run no spacers in the front and 10mm in the rear.
Next thing was to get it converted to run on LPG fuel. If you don't know what that is, it's liqefied petroleum gas - basically a byproduct from gasoline refinery, if I am informed correctly.
That means it's really cheap and it actually burns cleaner than gasoline so it's even better for the engine and also for all the birds 'n trees 'n shit.
To give you an example, a liter of gasoline costs about 1.50€ here in Germany. Converted to something you US people might be more familiar with, that equals to about 6.40$ per gallon.
Now, LPG is way cheaper. Depending on the region, the price is between 0.50€ and 0.70€ per liter. So that means, at the cheapest, it equals to 2.1$ per gallon.
Second fuel filler (the smaller one)
Second fuel tank (this means that I have the stock 100l gasoline tank AND a roughly 90l LPG tank, so I can cover huge distances because you can switch from LPG to gasoline with the press of a button. It actually switches automatically to gasoline once the LPG runs dry.)
And the fuel gauge.
Here's some rolling shots for good measure:
Next step will be some kind of exhaust modification, although the stock exhaust does sound rather decent, but it's a bit quiet for my tastes:
After that, I'll save up for air ride.
This will be a rather slow thread, as my E36 will get more important soon (starting on that as soon as I finish parting out the E39).
I was building a E39 recently, but I ended up parting it out. I needed a new daily. I wanted something with a V8 again and something comfy.
I definitely wanted something different than a BMW this time, since I had only owned BMWs for the past 8 years or so and felt it was time for a change. So, even though I know they are good cars, that removed the 7-series E38 from my list of possible cars.
I started looking at Mercedes W140 S-Classes but all the ones in my budget were toast.
Next, I looked at Jaguars but couldn't really find one that I really liked, mostly because of some small issues.
I started looking at different offers... I was never a big Audi fan but I figured the A8 might be worth a look. I went and test drove one, found that I liked it and so I set out to look for an A8.
Found one a few days later...
It's a '99 4.2 quattro in Mingblau.
Comfy interior, black electric leather, heated seats, GPS, Bose hifi and more.
The previous owner already lowered it on 45 / 30 mm Lowtec springs. I'll keep those for the time being until I've got enough funds to go the air ride route.
When I picked it up:
Just a few days later, I managed to score some new wheels for it.
Audi Speedlines in 9x19 ET33 with 255/35s. Nothing extreme, but they'll do the job.
In the pics I fitted them with 10mm spacers up front and 15mm in the rear. The 10mm in the front ended up rubbing, so I swapped them to the rear. Now I run no spacers in the front and 10mm in the rear.
Next thing was to get it converted to run on LPG fuel. If you don't know what that is, it's liqefied petroleum gas - basically a byproduct from gasoline refinery, if I am informed correctly.
That means it's really cheap and it actually burns cleaner than gasoline so it's even better for the engine and also for all the birds 'n trees 'n shit.
To give you an example, a liter of gasoline costs about 1.50€ here in Germany. Converted to something you US people might be more familiar with, that equals to about 6.40$ per gallon.
Now, LPG is way cheaper. Depending on the region, the price is between 0.50€ and 0.70€ per liter. So that means, at the cheapest, it equals to 2.1$ per gallon.
Second fuel filler (the smaller one)
Second fuel tank (this means that I have the stock 100l gasoline tank AND a roughly 90l LPG tank, so I can cover huge distances because you can switch from LPG to gasoline with the press of a button. It actually switches automatically to gasoline once the LPG runs dry.)
And the fuel gauge.
Here's some rolling shots for good measure:
Next step will be some kind of exhaust modification, although the stock exhaust does sound rather decent, but it's a bit quiet for my tastes:
After that, I'll save up for air ride.
This will be a rather slow thread, as my E36 will get more important soon (starting on that as soon as I finish parting out the E39).
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