I was wondering if anyone would notice, well done! There's no prize unfortunately

They are just the same as the stock ones, but with a dark blue "S" instead of the red one my car came with.

 

Found a couple of shots from homecoming day in April 2012 to show the differences. Original on the left, new look on the right:

 

The grill areas are much cleaner looking with the Zunsport product. I wonder how their grills would look on my Midnight Black Roadster, spiney?

 

HOW DID YOU FIND MY HOUSE!!!??!??!

Looks really nice!

 

It wasn't easy, spiney. Trying to avoid that pond of yours was the hardest part of the journey.

 

One last (?) bit of chrome/stainless...

Got this replacement hood scoop grill from MiniFini at the Dragon. Laser cut stainless steel. It's fully open, unlike the factory plastic one which in my case was about 25% open. If you get one and don't like it you could always use it as a cheese grater.

 

It looks fantastic, spiney.

 

+2 Looking forward to seeing a close-up front quarter view of the front end showing the whole new chrome package.

 

Like this maybe? (bit blown out on the wheels):

 

Or this?

 

That's it!

 

Overall, I like everything you've done. I'm not crazy fond of the mesh grills, but it's cool to be different.

It's part of what makes us MINIacs so special!

 

Nice job spiney! Your ride definitely looks better.

 

Spiney,

That car of yours is looking great.

I think I like the roadster without stripes..

I wish I had the JCW rear bumper cause I really like that GP Diffuser

very nice....

 

Package 1 out of 4 (I hope...). All shipped at the same time from Tire Rack. One went through NJ and CT and got here today, the other three are on their way through Buffalo and get here tomorrow.

 

Odd that they went separate ways. Hope they all show up safe and sound.

And as a plank owner in the NAM Cat Owners Club, I have to say that is one of the biggest, industrial sized containers of cat litter I've ever seen...

 

Not that strange, Tirerack has warehouse everywhere. Sometime one item is low on stock somewhere so they come from different places.
Tirerack often gives you the choice of shipping so if you want to keep the shipping down you might want one of the items shipped from a closer location. . . now Spiney, take that cardboard off already . . .

 

Me too! They all made it to our local UPS and they're on the truck today. Here's the first one opened up:



We used to have five cats, we're now down to one but we still buy the giant 35lb boxes from BJs (our local equivalent of Costco). Here's my cat, Foxy, plotting to kill us as usual, this time with frickin' laser beams:

 

Very nice


Mine went two different ways too..

Got them all the same day.

Andy

 

I like! Looking forward to seeing them on the Roadster.


ROFLOL!

You'll appreciate this if you haven't seen it before:

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/cat_kill

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OK, here they are:

 

No way I'd let my wife run such low profile tires but they look nice
A little angular for my taste with MINI styling but the light weight must be great to drive with!

You might as well drop the car now

 

My wife doesn't drive it, so any pothole damage will be down to me. They're 205/40x18, so not that much lower than the 205/45x17 on the standard wheels. I know this is going to be heresy to some/all of you but I stuck with the runflats, Bridgestone Potenzas. I like the feel with the stiff sidewalls, and I'm convinced that I would have wrecked loads of wheels on the roads round here with normal tyres.
They're certainly a lot easier to handle. I put all three sets side-by-side and despite being bigger the new wheels are the lightest by quite a way.

The wheel is about 5 or 6 pounds lighter than the Challenge Spoke, and the tyre is about a pound lighter. I'll let you know how they feel as soon as I've gone further than the local gas station to top off the air.
When I need new shocks I just might do that, but as it's an all year round car and I live in Massachusetts I can't go too crazy!

 

OK, I think this is it for the cosmetic changes for a while. I'm really happy with the new look, it's ended up even better than I imagined when I set off down this path. I'll have:
- a near-perfect set of Challenge Spokes (tiny curb damage on one wheel only) with TPMS and iffy tyres
- a Lightning Blue hood scoop
- a Lightning Blue rear "diffuser" (not sure what to call it, it's the bit that was removed to fit the GP2 diffuser)
- a JCW grille
up in the For Sale section soon when I've had the time to clean them up and take pictures.

Anyway, here are the final pictures in this thread for a while:

 

Your Roadster looks fantastic, spiney.