Suspension Show pics of your lowered MINI S!!!
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I like your taste... Should you decide you'ld like to paint the side skirts to match your wheel trim, go to O'Rielly Auto Parts and pick up two cans of Dupli-Color paint. You will need: Textured Metallic (MX100 Graphite Text Met) and DA1605 Flat Black.
Sand both skirts below the body break line on the each skirt, tape them off (I used green tape that did not allow any paint bleed) at the break-line and shoot 'em both with the Textured paint. After dry, shoot 'em both with the Flat Black. Remove the tape and you're done. You will be absolutely amazed at the near exact match in color and texture as compared to your OEM plastic wheel trim. I researched this to no end, and found it to be too difficult to get the recommended trim paint from MINI or BMW, as it was far too pricey and you had to buy far too much to ever use in a lifetime... So, I decided to do this on my own. This project was done in a matter of a couple hours and I spent under 20 bucks, including tape and sandpaper (both of which I had on hand).
Here's a couple pics of our MCS after the mod. I have others but they're already posted here and I can't re-post the same pics again. Dumb huh... Feel free to take a look at more before and after pics in my albums and gallery as well... Or, visit the other site, common to us all, for more.
Best'a Luck and Motor On!!!
I like your taste... Should you decide you'ld like to paint the side skirts to match your wheel trim, go to O'Rielly Auto Parts and pick up two cans of Dupli-Color paint. You will need: Textured Metallic (MX100 Graphite Text Met) and DA1605 Flat Black.
Sand both skirts below the body break line on the each skirt, tape them off (I used green tape that did not allow any paint bleed) at the break-line and shoot 'em both with the Textured paint. After dry, shoot 'em both with the Flat Black. Remove the tape and you're done. You will be absolutely amazed at the near exact match in color and texture as compared to your OEM plastic wheel trim. I researched this to no end, and found it to be too difficult to get the recommended trim paint from MINI or BMW, as it was far too pricey and you had to buy far too much to ever use in a lifetime... So, I decided to do this on my own. This project was done in a matter of a couple hours and I spent under 20 bucks, including tape and sandpaper (both of which I had on hand).
Here's a couple pics of our MCS after the mod. I have others but they're already posted here and I can't re-post the same pics again. Dumb huh... Feel free to take a look at more before and after pics in my albums and gallery as well... Or, visit the other site, common to us all, for more.
Best'a Luck and Motor On!!!
Last edited by JBC4317; 05-04-2011 at 07:23 AM.
#2012
#2013
Here's what mine looks like. I'm upgrading to coilovers in a month or so, once I leave my apartment full of underside killing speed bumps.
#2014
Yes, same way with mine. Not that HSport lowered the rear more than the front, it's just that they lowered them 1" all around. It has the "appearance" that it's lower.
Here's what mine looks like. I'm upgrading to coilovers in a month or so, once I leave my apartment full of underside killing speed bumps.
Here's what mine looks like. I'm upgrading to coilovers in a month or so, once I leave my apartment full of underside killing speed bumps.
#2015
#2016
No. The rear arches or wheelwells are actually smaller than the front ones. The front sits lower, but the smaller rear wheel wells make it look lower in the back.
You can really see it here. The front of the car is obviously lower (look at the sideskirts), but the rear arches tuck more of the wheel in the rear making it look lower back there.
You can really see it here. The front of the car is obviously lower (look at the sideskirts), but the rear arches tuck more of the wheel in the rear making it look lower back there.
#2017