kattanh3's W203 build-up thread

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Signature updated! turns out my front offsets were 46mm not 45mm 

Speaking about cheap parts, I found old pictures of parts...

went for stickers instead of caps

I really expected them to be crap and not to look half as decent as they do or to fall/peal off in no time. I'll see how they hold for another month or so, if they keep performing this decent then I'm try to get them to make me the blue ones.

Here's how they look on the car right now

The weather was nice yesterday, took couple of photos. Will be sharing them soon.

You can see in the previous picture the exhaust tips, got them for cheap from eBay. Were suppose to fit the car, seller was willing to get them back but I thought I'd give them a try. Had to cut and weld to get them in, not to mention cutting the bumper too.

H&R 25mm DRA spacers all around

Supplied bolts fit the spacer onto the car, OEM bolts fit the wheels onto the spacers. I had to get shorter bolts though (I think 12mm x 1.5mm x ~25mm) the thread on the original ones were in the mid 39.9mm.

Speaking about spacers I still couldn't make my mind between 12mm vs 15mm spacers for the rear... I'll share pictures so you can let me know what do you think will flow.

Also is it safe to have spacers on top of spacers? they will both be hub-centric... I just purchased a torque wrench and I'll use it once a month or so to feel safer. I've got no idea what torque to set it to, arbitrarily I'm gonna just setting it to 80 psi... let me know what is the recommended torque

I was going to install these since I thought I'd see how it looks like. I don't recommend them at all! they were difficult to fit, difficult to take out, made the wheels look even smaller, but worst of all they get stretched and ruined as you install them.

D-Rings for the cargo net, will be installed tomorrow. OEM Aux kit, already installed.

This is what it currently looks like. I'm having trouble running the aux cable though, the glove-box compartment has already claimed one cable. It basically damages the cable seal and you get all sort of funny right-side / left-side only sound. If you look at the bottom of the picture, you can see an opening in the body, I'm thinking of drilling an opening there to the cable can comfortably pass through

These are the R04CA stealth side markers bulbs. They are suppose to give you the OEM amber light without the reflection that makes the clear side markers look orange when they are off. I'll hopefully install them tomorrow

I took couple of pictures yesterday...