What will I do to it?

manlad

Just bought the below car. A 02 ford focus LX 1.8 TDCI. Want to do some light modifications to it. Nothing too drastic and nothing to make it look real skangerish. Im not to experienced in this area so was looking for some advice. Was thinking about colour coding and some rear lexus lights. Any other suggestions are appreciated.


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Alanstrainor

Moved to modified cars.

Midnight_EG

Lower it, alloys, projectors, lip kit, interior, done.

colm_mcm

Lexus lights = knacker look (for me anyway)

Pretty much any aftermarket rear lights for the Mk1 Focus are cack looking. I may have seen smoked black LED ones that were kind of nice.

I'd paint the door handles, sills rubbing strips, etc. clear/smoked side repeaters and lowering springs. existing alloys not too bad looking.

antomorro-sei

colm_mcm wrote: »

I'd paint the door handles, sills rubbing strips, etc. clear/smoked side repeaters and lowering springs. existing alloys not too bad looking.

I'd agree with that. Colour code evrything and lower it tbh.

Then, some ICE

And er, diesel tuning box?

projectgtr

OEM parts FTW. some ST lights with full xenon setup, ST fogs and lip? The focus chassis is supposed to be fairly decent, maybe just a lowered stance? Also check out a remap, no idea if its possible on your engine but check it out, diesels seem to fair with with remaps

colm_mcm

you can map the 90 to 110 handy enough.

stephenmarr

sell it buy something fast

manlad

stephenmarr wrote: »

sell it buy something fast

Ha ye its my first car so it'll do for now. Im only 19 so have to look at the insurace side of things and tax.

thanks for all the advice guys!

stephenmarr

best advise is to do very little to it
dont bother with bodykits and stuff
get used to driving it if you spend money on it you will never see it back.
so save the money you would have spent on it for your next car which you will want to be a little quicker
good luck with it.

adamshred

it would be very easy to spend a lot of money on the car but I would advise against it. If I were you I would source second hand alloys (nice ones obviously) and do the job nicely but on the cheap but I don't think you'll ever be truly satisfied with the mods without spending a lot of money.

A remap would probably be one of the few things that I would do to her. I actually quite like the look of the focuses without any mods tbh. Although multispoke alloys do give them a lovely rallyish look.

Hal1

Detango indicators for a start. I wouldn't do too much get used to her first.

stellarartois

projectgtr wrote: »

OEM parts FTW. some ST lights with full xenon setup, ST fogs and lip? The focus chassis is supposed to be fairly decent, maybe just a lowered stance? Also check out a remap, no idea if its possible on your engine but check it out, diesels seem to fair with with remaps

Fill it with petrol and burn it. FTW LOLOL OEM LOL

Edit: ROFL

Atomic Pineapple

stellarartois wrote: »

Fill it with petrol and burn it. FTW LOLOL OEM LOL

Edit: ROFL

If you dont have anything constructive to add please dont post.

Even if its 2:30 in the morning and you have a few pints of stella in you!

C.Rizzle

GET RID OF IT:D:D
Lower it, A nice set of alloys or get them powder coated, xneon Kit,
Get the back 3 windows tinted not limo tint or silver just a nice shade, stay away from those lexus lights there rank. i havent seen the picture it
wont show so thats really all i can say, and just keep it clean an waxed
that makes it look well. stay away from halfords parts and all them induction kits and that. Goodluck