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Especially for KJB...

Post by JimmySpeed » Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:46 pm

You may remember commenting that you wondered what it would look like to have the centre portion of the rear aero splitter in a contrasting colour...

Well I got curious too...

I knew once I did this I would have to finish the job  :))

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I figured its only vinyl and I can get it redone when I get my sidesteps wrapped if I decide to. I like it like this though, so will keep it as is I think. In all white it never looked quite right to me, perhaps because I already have the contrasting black roof and spoiler.

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by stu21t » Sat Apr 12, 2014 5:41 pm

That looks the nuts.
Much better in black.

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by kjb1 » Sat Apr 12, 2014 6:40 pm

Well.  It looks as I thought.  Very blooody nice :)

It was a white out literally before!!! now it ties everything in, and shapes the rear end much better.  Bet it looks even better in the flesh aswell as you can see definition of the aero kit etc!! really like it.

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by pvr » Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:23 pm

Yep, much better.
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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by stu21t » Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:00 pm

What's the front like?

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by JimmySpeed » Sun Apr 13, 2014 9:34 pm

Cheers.

The front looks like this

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by 535dboy » Sun Apr 13, 2014 10:02 pm

good move on rear !
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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by martin33100 » Mon Apr 14, 2014 9:13 pm

Does look good with the black on a white car, our E70 is black and I thought about doing the middle of the aero kit silver but when I dropped the kit off today at the paint shop I decided to just leave it all black.
This is one I found on the net:-
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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by JimmySpeed » Mon Apr 14, 2014 10:17 pm

You can never go wrong with a bit of contrast, although the silver on black looks like the x6 front.

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by Ashway » Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:58 pm

like it apart from the parking sensors, think they would have looked better in white,

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by martin33100 » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:05 pm

Found this picture as well but I am probably going to stay all black as planned:-
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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by JimmySpeed » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:07 pm

I saw an all black with the aero kit and it looked very good. Stealthy. I'm not sure what to think of the aero in part silver in those pics.

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Re: Especially for KJB...

Post by JimmySpeed » Thu Apr 17, 2014 11:08 pm

[quote="Ashway"]
like it apart from the parking sensors, think they would have looked better in white,

only my opinion of course
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Yeah, I take your point. I have considered it, but never committed to doing anything about it.

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