X5 lowering and 22'' alloys

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:13 pm

the car i hope if its worked before lowering

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:17 pm

these are my contrevesioal wheels that reguire spacers and im unsure of the look, btw it was your car i saw at gaydon what made me want to lower myn, i wanted to ask you is that le mans blue, has it been resprayed, there was know one near the car when i saw it. i was thinking of colour coding and wondered how it looked, saw yours and it looked trick

Raj · Post by **Raj** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 10:25 pm

If it were the afternoon then I was a little further up fitting Angel Eye kits....lol.

Here's my build thread:

http://www.xdrivers.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1954

Been resprayed and it is in the original Le Mans Blue.

As mine is a 4.8 with the air suspension all round when you saw it, it was on the easy access position, but how low it was there is how I'd lower it for normal driving too...

Just add a set of 20 - 30mm Eibach Spacers at the rear and I think it will improve the look no end.

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Mon Aug 29, 2011 8:52 pm

got the lowering springs on looks nice, will post pics up tommorow!!

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:11 pm

the lowered look!! see its not that extreme

wilkoturbo · Post by **wilkoturbo** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 5:58 am

Looks nice is it a 4.8 if not where did you get the front bumper from ?

Thanks Paul

JimmySpeed · Post by **JimmySpeed** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 7:26 am

[quote=""wilkoturbo""]Looks nice is it a 4.8[/quote]

have a look at his sig

What I can't tell you is where he got the bumper though

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Wed Aug 31, 2011 8:34 pm

o no shes a 3.0d, if you have any keen 4.8is owners on here they will know the difference, the kit took a while to find and i imported it, its around Â£1200 from bmw if you can borrow a 4.8is vin number to order it on as they wont sell you them!! considerably less the way i got it

Rusty · Post by **Rusty** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:57 am

[quote=""shadrack""]o no shes a 3.0d, if you have any keen 4.8is owners on here they will know the difference, the kit took a while to find and i imported it, its around Â£1200 from bmw if you can borrow a 4.8is vin number to order it on as they wont sell you them!! considerably less the way i got it[/quote]

Go on then, where and how much was the kit, I like the look of it and would def consider.

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shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:11 pm

well there some times on ebay, and theyre from latvia, but he sells so few to the uk he wanted me to sell them for him but the margin he offered me and the low volume id sell i decided it wasnt worth it, there Â£438 delivered without arches (as i got) or plus Â£150 with arches, there fibreglass so dont know how the arches would look agains the knobbly plastic but myn already had them on from factory. trouble is it comes accross as a scam but is genuine you look and think latvia....hmmmmmmm will it turn up, then he says i will email you an invoice to pay him direct to avoid ebay fees so he charges less, then he says estimated delivery up to 28 days, and all of this is in very bad english but in the end i chanced it and 5 days later i had it, they are a very good fit and top quality fibre glass they look the part but are slightly difffernt, from bmw they are Â£1100+ without arches and you have to borror a 4.8is vin number to order it by cos they wont sell them!

JimmySpeed · Post by **JimmySpeed** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:12 am

[quote=""shadrack""]well there some times on ebay, and theyre from latvia, but he sells so few to the uk he wanted me to sell them for him but the margin he offered me and the low volume id sell i decided it wasnt worth it, there Â£438 delivered without arches (as i got) or plus Â£150 with arches, there fibreglass so dont know how the arches would look agains the knobbly plastic but myn already had them on from factory. trouble is it comes accross as a scam but is genuine you look and think latvia....hmmmmmmm will it turn up, then he says i will email you an invoice to pay him direct to avoid ebay fees so he charges less, then he says estimated delivery up to 28 days, and all of this is in very bad english but in the end i chanced it and 5 days later i had it, they are a very good fit and top quality fibre glass they look the part but are slightly difffernt, from bmw they are Â£1100+ without arches and you have to borror a 4.8is vin number to order it by cos they wont sell them![/quote]

I knew it would be that Latvian guy

I've not seen any replica kits anywhere else. Which is odd considering that Everyman and his dog makes replica kits for all other BMWs

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Fri Sep 02, 2011 8:50 am

yeh but with how he comes accross as a scam and bieng latvia i was dubious about ordering one, but its perfect cant fault the kit or his service! i litterally searched the world america, germany etc and could get it from him or bmw, you would think more would be available, tbh the 4.6 kit for pre facelift cars is easier to get hold of just the 4.8 that is hard!

x555 · Post by **x555** » Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:42 pm

Looks good Shadrack

any chance of some more pics of the whole car from the side to see it from further away.

Did you just lower the front and the back leveled itself out ?

shadrack · Post by **shadrack** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:46 am

no i lowered the front -40mm then i lowered the rear by retuning the suspension level on bmw inpa, by the way on inpa you do 30mm to lower 30mm and -30mm to heighten 30mm just thort i would point that out!!

enver82 · Post by **enver82** » Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:00 pm

[quote=""Raj""]Hiya.

I've been contemplating lowering my 4.8is further than the standard for quite sometime but still debating. As far as I was aware you only need to lower the fronts and the rears will self level accordingly.

This was mine on the standard 20's with 20mm spacers all round at Santa Pod last year:

20mm was perfect all round and helped the loof=k of the standard rims.

As for 22's.....deffo.

And this is how she looks now after a lot of time and effort:

I'm running ACS Type II 's with 20mm spacers at the rear. I'd prefer to go larger at the rears to bring them out a bit further.[/quote]

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