BMW GTR Style bonnet

Idbatterim

Hi, Im looking for a BMW GTR bonnet, see link. (However the one I linked to is carbon fibre) and the £500. by the time i had it delivered, fitted and sprayed it would come to a significant sum. Im wondering if you can just buy a normal bonnet in the gtr style. I have looked but can seem to find any. Can anyone help?!

http://www.nicedeals.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=9753

bmstuff

Idbatterim wrote: »

Hi, Im looking for a BMW GTR bonnet, see link. (However the one I linked to is carbon fibre) and the £500. by the time i had it delivered, fitted and sprayed it would come to a significant sum. Im wondering if you can just buy a normal bonnet in the gtr style. I have looked but can seem to find any. Can anyone help?!

http://www.nicedeals.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=9753

Well finished CF products will be very expensive, not that the material itself is expensive, this is just the finish product itself.
You could do one yourself really, but it takes skills.

You could buy some vents and make your own using your existing one, but at the end of the day, if you are not very talented, it will probably look bad.

Personally, unless I knew someone with the right skills to make a custom one for me, I would just buy this finished product (If I really wanted to have this on my car), so at least my car does not look dumb.

ciarsd

More importantly, what E46 are you planning on fitting it too? :eek:

Idbatterim

its a 318ci...

kdevitt

This sounds like a very bad idea to me - for starters, if you consider the £500 plus shipping and fitting to be expensive, you're aiming to do this on the cheap, and the results will show.

A decent quality GTR rep bonnet (Vorsteiner for example) would probably cost you €2500 to your door, and thats without spraying and fitting. I would expect to pay around €350 for spraying the bonnet, and probably €150 to €200 for someone to fit it properly.

Bare in mind that you also need to contend with the fact that these are designed for an M3 - which you don't have. So you either need to fork out for M3 wings (which will make your car look daft - wide front and skinny rear) - or make sure whoever is fitting the bonnet is able to do the work necessary with your standard wings to create the space for the wide bonnet, and not leave panel gaps which makes your car look like it was shunted and then badly repaired.

Cutting your bonnet and adding vents will also look fairly dodgy, and again you need someone who is very good at what they're doing - and even if they are good, you're not going to get the same GTR style done.

If you do go ahead - I'd make sure you hold onto the old bonnet, it will be needed come resale time!

Idbatterim

the amount of mods and accessories for 3 series coupes is unbelievalble. I just cant believe GTR Style bonnets (not carbon fibre) arent readily available. Also I went to a place up north that fitted an msport bumper to my car aswell as sanded, primed, sprayed, lacquered and oven baked the bumper for E109!!! they did an excellent job, so the cost of the bonnet to me is the biggest concern!

kdevitt

Idbatterim wrote: »

I just cant believe GTR Style bonnets (not carbon fibre) arent readily available.

They're readily available - they're just not cheap.

Edit - I should also add, they're not exactly popular either. I would never hold one in stock.

Idbatterim

kdevitt, you say they are readily available, could you tell me where? can you order one in, and if so at what cost?

kdevitt

CA Automotive do the Vorsteiner GTR bonnet - http://www.ca-at.co.uk/products-Y2FyX21ha2U9Ym13JmNhcl90eXBlPWU0NiZjYXRfaWQ9NDcmY29tcF9pZD00OA==.html

MStyle do them too - and a cheaper one - http://www.mstyle.co.uk/acatalog/bmw_3_e46_m3_bonnets_bootlids.html

PrettyBoy

Don't do it!

Idbatterim

why not pretty boy? Iv never seen one in Ireland with this bonnet, but the photos look amazing, when you google image them!

tossy

Idbatterim wrote: »

why not pretty boy? Iv never seen one in Ireland with this bonnet, but the photos look amazing, when you google image them!

Sticking that bonnet alone on a 3 series would look crap in my opinion you would have to carry out a whole host of other mods to pull it off at the very least nice wheels,lowered,subtle body kit.

robtri

Idbatterim wrote: »

so the cost of the bonnet to me is the biggest concern!

not that the bonnet wont fit, as already said the gtr IS FOR m3.....

could cost you a lot more than 500 to have the front of the car modified to take the bonnet

PrettyBoy

Idbatterim wrote: »

why not pretty boy? Iv never seen one in Ireland with this bonnet

There's plenty of reasons why you haven't seen any. The main ones are all mentioned in kdevitts post. If you're the costs of shipping, painting and fitting are worrying you then you really shouldn't even be considering it. It will do nothing but devalue your car and even if you end up selling it separately you will only get a fraction of what you paid for it.

Basically, it doesn't make any sense to put a GTR bonnet on a 318 - it doesn't make any economic sense, it doesn't improve performance and it definitely won't work for posing.

milltown

Idbatterim wrote: »

its a 318ci...

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milltown

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tossy

If he wants to modify a 318 BMW let him its his car.i'm sure we've all ploughed money into worse cars i know i have

x in the city

if you want to burn monies go ahead shur, as long as it makes you happy