Well since I have until Feb 2014, before I can free up about $500 per month EXTRA FREE Cash, I have decided to fully customize BOO (well fully around $2000-2500 worth) on purely cosmo, NOT mods.

I am wanting to do this to BOO, except in the BEP color, including the wheels...But am having a HARD time finding a complete AERO Kit, and the wheels also. Does anyone have any idea what wheels these are, and any leads on a complete AERO Kit.

I will sell her in the spring of 2014 if I find something I like better, and will not care about the $$$ I will not get back.

Sorry that I jacked someones nice ride, but it is exactly what I am wanting...VERY nice ride!!!

Have a Happy Easter everyone.

snowman

 

I can't seem to find the thread anymore but I know there is a build thread for that car somewhere within these forums and it had the wheel specs.

 

Isn't that UK SUV's car w/ 18" Exel TZ10s? Good luck searchin' for those wheels.

 

Sweet ride for sure. There are a lot of rims that resemble that. I have enkei imolas and they look pretty much the same. If its just looks you are looking for then pretty much anything close would work. I think the imolas only come in silver or black but I'm sure you can easily get them painted or just plasti dip them since you're on a budget.

 

I thought BOO was getting dumped at the Ford dealer if it did not sell on eBay cuz you had a kid coming.

 

She was going to be sold, but we have decided to keep her for the time being, and make her mine and customize her.

 

This.

 

Yeah same thing here...you seem to be all over the place with selling not selling buying not buying. Not telling you what to do but kids are crazy expensive...might be time to let go of doing things for yourself. That's why I have no kids yet ..I still want to be selfish.

I had dreams of an m3 and the like but with getting married this year and looking for houses etc...It seems very likely that I will be driving my. 2003 mini for another 50k miles...ha...such is life I guess

 

Yes I probably shouldn't have bought BOO, if I could see 4 months in the future, but missed my other S ('04 DS 6, nav, back-up, heated leather 60K). And I jumped all over this one, simply because of the color (PW/PW was 2nd choice)...Drove to Denver to get her, when I got there and seen the condition and what she needed, I should have just walked away and should have looked and bought wiser if at all.....Now I can't even give her away, (should just pay-off another $1000) and try to sell her again, but when 2014 gets here, I just might have too give her away.

 

Hindsight is always 20/20. All I am saying is you probably want to just drive Boo as is and not dump anymore cash into him/her. The mods you listed (aero kit, rims, etc) to your statement above are not going to add any value to the car...when you go to unload it..it's gonna be more painful then the haircut you would take right now and money is gonna get tight real soon with the little one on the way...but maybe not bc I don't know your financial situation.

I would say take a 3 month cooling off period before doing anything more.

 

+1 Kahnfucious
If the plan is to sell it next year, you'd need money to burn to justify custom mods. Even moreso if the car isn't paid off yet.

 

+2
Bank the $$.
With a kid on the way, your priorities and responsibilities WILL change....
drive the car, have fun, enjoy.....

 

Now I'm starting to connect all the dots. If the car is 7 to 8 years old and not paid off then mods would be the last thing you should spend your money on. If you have $2,500 cash to burn then spend half of it paying it down and put away the other half for repairs / kid money. Cars are fun (most of the time) but only when they're not stretching the budget.
Boo looks pretty special enough as is IMO and it sounds like you've taken care of a lot if not all of the problems. Either enjoy it as is and pay it down or take the bullet now and just get rid of it. I know it's hard but I've bailed out of a couple of cars, notably a beat up 2002 tii I should have known better not to buy and a bad internet purchase on an 89 635csi that was totally misrepresented. It was knawing at me knowing I made a bad purchase and I was trying to come up with ways to improve the nasty little rats, but the relief once they were gone was a great feeling.
FWIW, since the 635csi episode the other half has now forbidden me from buying old cars