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    Are these new (M5) wheels "teh SECHS!"?

    My goal was to convert this car from a timid virginal princess into an EVIL automotive equivalent of a nymphomaniac...

    ...these pictures were taken directly across the bay from an absolute industrial sh!thole (check out the steel factories in the background)....The quality of the pics kind of suck, it's a gloomy day...maybe I can get some better ones at night....


    BEFORE: (this was back in the day, pre-tint, ghetto factory HUBCAPS)



    AFTER:















    This one is my favorite shot:



    And because she gets babied by her daddy so often, a pic of the MINT interior (conditioned the leather earlier this week too):



    EDIT: Fixing pics...damn photobucket screws everything up!
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    looks okay. i dunno about "teh sechs" so much as way better than stock.

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    needs clears, and a drop

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    Quote Originally Posted by bmw3er
    needs clears, and a drop
    No, don't like the clears

    and

    no, roads up here are atrocious, underside would get ROCKED hardcore if I were any lower

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    It'll be teh sechs with clears and a drop, but until then, it is still hawt and alot better than stock


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    needs a drop ASAP.

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    much better

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    wow your car looks great...too bad you don't like clears

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave95M3
    Drop + M-Technic (ZHP) Kit!

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    Answered: ‘Not so much’

    And a 1” drop won’t have you scraping anything you wouldn’t already hit

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    Quote Originally Posted by ///MDex
    And a 1” drop won’t have you scraping anything you wouldn’t already hit
    What he said ^^^

    Plus it would greatly improve the 4x4 look you have going.
    Nice wheels though.. I love those. They look great!

    Gorgeous interior too.. looking clean.
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    Not too shabby. Needs clears and a drop!

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    Those are the best M wheels ever made. I think the only wheels that come close are the new M6 wheels.

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    Not so much, but SLAM IT!

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    i got those wheels on my e36, i love them, i get compliments on them everywhere i go.
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    E39 M5 wheels are indeed teh sechs. I can hardly stand to look at the E60 M wheels.

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    I would AT LEAST do a Sport package suspension upgrade. That'll reduce the amount of gap in the fenderwells.

    As far as the analong A/C controls, his car is Canadian & a lot of those cars have those. There are quite a bit of U.S. base model e46 cars, as well as the base model BMW X5 that have that too. If you do a search for 3.0i X5 cars on eBay, I'm sure you'll run into a few of them. They're more common on X5 though.
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    looks real nice, slam it!

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    Clears, drop, M-tech bumpers, then it'll be "teh sechs."

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    Looks a hell of a lot better than those stock steelies.

    Topaz with the light tint is so sexy. And agreed on getting the ZSP suspension at the least!
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    Thanks for the comments y'all...

    For some reason photos exaggerate the wheel well gap BIG TIME...IN person it looks pretty tight and you can hardly see anyting, I dunno what it is with cameras??? But anyways...

    I might consider the suspension at some point but these wheels/tires were a big investment and I'm sinking some serious cash into pimping out my condominum so it'll have to wait...If it's a reasonable excuse, there will be a special area in this new upgraded condo for strippers to dance, pics to follow in offtopic...

    out of curiosity, what are we looking at ballpark$-wise to drop 1-1.5"?
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