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Hi again guys.
After some.. mixed opinions on my E38 I went away and thought about what i'd done. This was how you last saw it
Aspen silver on XXR 968's. BC coilovers. Lots of car park dings, rusty arches, paint burned through on the OSR quarter, poorly colour matched OSF wing. I mean, it was ok from a distance, but the wheels were a bad choice looking back and I made some poor decisions along the way.
What did I do to fix this? I made some more poor decisions! Hooray! But stuck with it. It couldn't have been made any worse bodywork wise so I decided to try something I always fancied doing. Vinyl wrapping.
When vinyl wrapping, you need the best quality material money can buy and a clean, dust free indoor environment, away from the wind and rain and for better control over the application. Which is why I bought 30m of cheap Chinese wrap for £200 and wrapped the car outside in the pissing rain over the course of a couple of days. What could possibly go wrong?
..Not a lot, actually. It came up not bad at all. It was finally all one colour (yes yes I know, not technically one colour, but you know what I mean) and with a bit of filler and arch work, the dinks were less obvious too. Not perfect, but it's a £900 car, and i'm not expecting any concourse awards. Looks alright in pictures though
The XXR's were fucked too, I was hoping to put in a claim about them as there were some horrible manufacturing defects. The "stainless steel" lips rusted like there was no tomorrow and the faces looked like they corroded underneath the clear coat, they looked terrible. Both XXR and the supplier wanted nothing to do with it and for what I paid for them, it wasn't worth the hassle of a legal battle, so I sold them on to a local drift pal and put the money towards the wheels I originally wanted but was too impatient for.
CCW Clas.. no, not really. Japan Racing JR10's. I've never been able to justify "proper wheel" money on our household income, but i've used Japan Racing wheels for drifting before and they've taken the abuse, and in my opinion the JR10's are probably one of the best CCW Classic reps you can buy, with decent offsets too.
OH! And I also ripped out the 4:3 Nav system and the factory fitted DSP in favour of an aftermarket four channel amp feeding front components and the factory rear sub box. Might switch out the sub box for a proper sub at some point, but the icing on the cake for me is the 7" Kindle Fire that I managed to root and run the SlimLP custom Android ROM, so now I have Google Maps, Spotify, Facebook, Youtube, whatever I want from the dash of the car. Brought it completely up to date and with a few apps that control screen behaviour and a simplified home screen it's performed flawlessly.
Anyway, enough nonsense from me, here's some pictures and a video I made this weekend. The keener eyed of you will spot loads wrong with exposure, focus, ISO settings and camera shake but I only got this camera last month and I was keen to see what the video was like in low light.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6rn9x4iuPDs
Thanks for reading, hope it doesn't offend too many eyes
After some.. mixed opinions on my E38 I went away and thought about what i'd done. This was how you last saw it
Aspen silver on XXR 968's. BC coilovers. Lots of car park dings, rusty arches, paint burned through on the OSR quarter, poorly colour matched OSF wing. I mean, it was ok from a distance, but the wheels were a bad choice looking back and I made some poor decisions along the way.
What did I do to fix this? I made some more poor decisions! Hooray! But stuck with it. It couldn't have been made any worse bodywork wise so I decided to try something I always fancied doing. Vinyl wrapping.
When vinyl wrapping, you need the best quality material money can buy and a clean, dust free indoor environment, away from the wind and rain and for better control over the application. Which is why I bought 30m of cheap Chinese wrap for £200 and wrapped the car outside in the pissing rain over the course of a couple of days. What could possibly go wrong?
..Not a lot, actually. It came up not bad at all. It was finally all one colour (yes yes I know, not technically one colour, but you know what I mean) and with a bit of filler and arch work, the dinks were less obvious too. Not perfect, but it's a £900 car, and i'm not expecting any concourse awards. Looks alright in pictures though
The XXR's were fucked too, I was hoping to put in a claim about them as there were some horrible manufacturing defects. The "stainless steel" lips rusted like there was no tomorrow and the faces looked like they corroded underneath the clear coat, they looked terrible. Both XXR and the supplier wanted nothing to do with it and for what I paid for them, it wasn't worth the hassle of a legal battle, so I sold them on to a local drift pal and put the money towards the wheels I originally wanted but was too impatient for.
CCW Clas.. no, not really. Japan Racing JR10's. I've never been able to justify "proper wheel" money on our household income, but i've used Japan Racing wheels for drifting before and they've taken the abuse, and in my opinion the JR10's are probably one of the best CCW Classic reps you can buy, with decent offsets too.
OH! And I also ripped out the 4:3 Nav system and the factory fitted DSP in favour of an aftermarket four channel amp feeding front components and the factory rear sub box. Might switch out the sub box for a proper sub at some point, but the icing on the cake for me is the 7" Kindle Fire that I managed to root and run the SlimLP custom Android ROM, so now I have Google Maps, Spotify, Facebook, Youtube, whatever I want from the dash of the car. Brought it completely up to date and with a few apps that control screen behaviour and a simplified home screen it's performed flawlessly.
Anyway, enough nonsense from me, here's some pictures and a video I made this weekend. The keener eyed of you will spot loads wrong with exposure, focus, ISO settings and camera shake but I only got this camera last month and I was keen to see what the video was like in low light.
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/embed/6rn9x4iuPDs
Thanks for reading, hope it doesn't offend too many eyes
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