Over the last few weeks I decided to try and bring the old barge up to date and I'm quite pleased with the outcome so far.
She started off as a completely standard W211 E320 CDI. First thing to do was add some LED bulbs and HID headlights. After this was the addition of the wind deflectors and some slightly tinted numberplates (for show purposes).
Then came the bigger decisions....wheels and tyres. Did I stick with the original 17's or splash out on new shoes? I got talked into new shoes and also some Eibach lowering springs. I'm glad I was talked into it as it sits a whole lot better now.
It was also time for some more power too so she went in for a remap and the results are pretty impressive but I need to get on a rolling road to find out exactly what the gains are.
After all this it was evident that although the paintwork was decent it could do with being renovated so I order a Kestrel DAS-6 random orbital, menzerna compounds, dodo juice supernatural pre wax cleanser and dodo juice blue velvet hard wax.
Spent a good few hours on her, the paintwork is almost flawless but not 100% so will do more shortly. For now though this is the end result. Any comments or criticism welcome
Also didn't look too out of place in London either with a mates c63
She started off as a completely standard W211 E320 CDI. First thing to do was add some LED bulbs and HID headlights. After this was the addition of the wind deflectors and some slightly tinted numberplates (for show purposes).
Then came the bigger decisions....wheels and tyres. Did I stick with the original 17's or splash out on new shoes? I got talked into new shoes and also some Eibach lowering springs. I'm glad I was talked into it as it sits a whole lot better now.
It was also time for some more power too so she went in for a remap and the results are pretty impressive but I need to get on a rolling road to find out exactly what the gains are.
After all this it was evident that although the paintwork was decent it could do with being renovated so I order a Kestrel DAS-6 random orbital, menzerna compounds, dodo juice supernatural pre wax cleanser and dodo juice blue velvet hard wax.
Spent a good few hours on her, the paintwork is almost flawless but not 100% so will do more shortly. For now though this is the end result. Any comments or criticism welcome
Also didn't look too out of place in London either with a mates c63
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Now, how are you with vans?
