Was considering painting my arches and lower moldings, anyone have DSM done??
I'm sure others would love to see all colors on the R56, so I thought I post a form up here.

 

oh was wondering if there was any white r56's with painted arches. was thinking about doing this too, but don't really know what and how to start it!

 

Anyone, pics????

 

Go to minspeed.net they have pics and they do it for i think $800

 

Here are a couple of photos of mine. I know there's a photo of a really sweet looking PW mini with painted arches that also has the Hypersport body kit like mine. If you do a search for "Hypersport" you should be able to find it.







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fixed

 

Oops, thanks!

 

New spoiler???

 

Why yes.... , yes it is

I'll probably wash the car tomorrow and take new photos of it then. There was a slight piece broken on the boot roof section so I'm actually waiting for a replacement piece to come in too.

 

who makes that wing??

 

Yes, I'm curious too

Also wondering why you got rid of the JCW wing, having problems with it or just wanted something different??

Braden

 

I'm seriously entertaining the idea of getting my arches painted gloss black. Mmmmm.

 

Wetceal,
Your MINI is AMAZING!!!!

Great job!

 

Celia, have you considered tinting the fogs?

 

The wing is made by Palo Uber. I know there are a lot of people that don't like them and/or have problems/issues with their products but I took a chance and ordered from them after several email correspondence back and forth.

I probably exchanged 8 to 10 emails with Geoffrey before I finally placed my order. He always emailed me back in a very timely manner (within 24 hours of my email) and thoroughly. He even helped me get the dealership where I got my JCW wing to accept the return (more about that later).

The shipping was really fast, especially considering I placed my order around the holidays and communication was still great after the fact. I do have a slight problem with the wing like I mentioned. The fiberglass corner on the boot roof section broke off during installation. I emailed Palo Uber about this, not asking for anything but just expressing my disappointment and frustration about this. They emailed me back right away and informed me that that should not have happened and it might be related to some sort of production defect so they are remaking that section and air freighting the replacement to me ASAP.

SO, that's what I'm waiting for now. So far, I would have to honestly say that I am impressed with their customer service. Also, the quality of the carbon fiber wing blade is superb.

I don't want to get into any pro-Palo Uber vs. Palo Uber bashing debates because I know there have been several negative threads about them and their products but I just wanted to honestly relay my current experience with them.


As for the JCW wing - I loved this wing...*sigh*. I really liked the design of the wing and the way it looked on the car and I was planning on having the silver tips painted either black or possibly Laser Blue. HOWEVER, the freakin' thing WHISTLED!

The wing would emit a high-pitched whistling noise at any speed over about 50 mph! This car is my daily driver and I do a lot of interstate/highway driving at over 50 mph. The whistling noise was at such a high pitch that even the radio couldn't drown it out. We checked to make sure the noise was coming from the wing by test driving the car with the wing removed and sure enough - there was no whistling when there was no wing. I even emailed another NAM member with the JCW wing to ask if he noticed the same thing which he concurred.

We thought about coming up with a mod to fix this and so we took black electrical tape and taped up all the grooves. There are these grooves where the seems meet and taping up all the grooves actually worked! I think, because of the shape of the wing, air was being pushed through these grooves when driving to cause the whistling noise. Taping up the grooves took care of the noise and you would only hear a slight whistling at speeds over 75 or 80 mph.

I could have left it like that but I just felt that I shouldn't have to modify something that I spent $600 on! It just really irked me so I started looking for a replacement wing. I decided to go with the Palo Uber one instead and after a lot of emails back and forth with the dealership I got the JCW wing from, they finally let me return it.

I don't know if every single JCW wing does this but I know for sure that mine and one other NAM member's wing did.

THANKS!


I actually have thought of that but I don't know what color I would tint them. I know a lot of people do yellow. I had thought about doing them blue when I had the blue tint on my headlights. Then there's also the smoke/charcoal available I think. What color would you recommend?


Sorry to take this thread so off topic with all the wing talk. I was planning on posting a new thread about it after I got some better pictures (after I gave the car a good wash which I'm actually going to go do right now!)...


Now that would be REAL interesting! I would love to see how that looks with a CR mini!

 

If it were me (and I'm planning on this too), I'd go dark grey (like the color of the headlights on the PW MINI in Lagstons sig) to match your joey mod.

 

wetceal, your car is superb... Really really nice looking car, with Ultraleggeras if im not mistaken

Color coded arches are definately the way to go.

 

I still have a set of Laser Blue and Lightning Blue in stock and ready to ship.

 

any astro black?

and do you offer painted jcw kits too?

 

Yes we can do Astro Black.

We don't do the entire JCW kit, just because the shipping of the rockers and bumpers will probaly end up damaging the paint.

 

Here's our P/W JCW Aero Kit w/ pained arches and calipers.

 

^ That's one of my favorite color-coded MINIs!