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  • Keep it how it is

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  • Get rid of the lower Hella fog lights

    27 27.27%
  • Get rid of the upper fog lights

    5 5.05%
  • Get rid of it all!

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Thread: Convince my friend he is a damned fool (2002 content)

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    Quote Originally Posted by so2002 View Post
    The stock headlights are pretty terrible at night. It's ok if you aren't in a hurry, but unsafe for the speeds I like to travel at
    Can't be any where near as bad as my stock headlights. My lighting seems to disappear when it rains.
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    Quote Originally Posted by so2002 View Post
    Wait is this supposed to convince me that all that sh!t on the front looks good?

    I'll take the one on the left please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Crob View Post
    As in the car was imported from Germany with those plates on? Keep it as is then. They belong to each other if that's the case.
    Not with those bumpers on it!

    While I think the square Hellas are more "period correct" than the round lights, I'd personally get rid of all 3. Especially the Euro plate. Euro plate makes me sad.

    In Maryland, you can not legally have more than 2 auxillary lights.

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    with all the lights and euro plate looks like there is to much going on clutter style ...but its his ride if he likes it roll with it

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    Just bolt one of these bad boys on there:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Air and water do mix View Post
    Personally? I'd keep the round ones, lose the plate and the square Hellas.

    Then I would do absolutely nothing else to it.
    x2 Perfect.
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    i'd lock this thread but i have no clue how...

  8. #43
    Id say its his car so let him have as many lights on it as he wants

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam144 View Post
    Bwahahahahaha! Oh man that's funny. A 2002? What's that like 75 mph?

    (And I know about slow(er) sports cars, I have a Datsun Z) You aren't breaking any landspeed records in that Bimmer pal.
    But it FEELS like a land speed record

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adam144 View Post
    Just bolt one of these bad boys on there:

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    If I post enough pictures, you all have to agree with me

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    Those two rectangular fogs on the bottom:


  13. #48
    Quote Originally Posted by so2002 View Post
    where is this? by the way, love your clean 2002, despite the stadium lighting

  14. #49
    Quote Originally Posted by choochoo View Post
    where is this? by the way, love your clean 2002, despite the stadium lighting
    Backwoods Greenwich, CT. But the car is in NY

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    Love the car. I'd lose the lower lights if it were mine, but it's not, so
    Quote Originally Posted by phryxis View Post
    sprayed it on, waited some time, and proceeded to go at it with a scraper, some pliers, and a lot of f-ing hard work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by so2002 View Post

    If I post enough pictures, you all have to agree with me
    Every picture you post reminds me why I think you should get rid of that stuff! I might keep the round fogs, but the square fogs and euro plate at least would go if it were mine.

    That said it's your car and if you like it
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    Quote Originally Posted by aethelwulf View Post
    Every picture you post reminds me why I think you should get rid of that stuff! I might keep the round fogs, but the square fogs and euro plate at least would go if it were mine.

    That said it's your car and if you like it
    I'm not dead set on the plate, but it covers 4 big holes in the rubber

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    keep the upper rounds.

    lose the lower squares and the probably illegal europlate
    epitome

    I need to follow this... "Not everything you eat has to, or should, taste really f*cking awesome. Sometimes you need to eat 'boring' food to stay healthy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by .:Rjackson View Post
    ...I think at least 2 of the 3 need to go. What are your thoughts?...
    When I was in my late teens, a lot of my friends had 2002s. The pairing of big round Cibie Super Oscar type driving lights and small rectangular Marchal type fog lights was a very popular look, and is now, 40 years later, a very traditional look.
    I vote to keep them.

    --Chuck--

    Random Googled 2002 image:
    Last edited by speedbump2; 05-04-2012 at 09:42 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Non_Affiliated View Post
    Can't be any where near as bad as my stock headlights. My lighting seems to disappear when it rains.
    Hey, if you have 12 Volts coursing through your wires you have nothing to complain about.

    I do have a nice set of Cibie H4 reflectors, but I'd need to pick up some 6 volt bulbs for hem (yes, they're available!)
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    Quote Originally Posted by so2002 View Post
    I would kill someone, in front their own mama if BMW would make a modern interpretation of the 2002....keep it small (same shape/size/wheelbase and dimensions) with a smallish 4 cyl
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    Quote Originally Posted by bgsapc View Post
    Id say 3 of the 3 need to go.
    i agree. And try to avoid driving at night, as i doubt the lighting is very good
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  23. #58
    Get rid of everything and that bumper too! I cant believe how long that thing is! It definitely deserves its name as a diving board.

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    Get rid of the diving boards for Euros and keep the roundies, or keep the boards and get rid of everything else.
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    Phew!!! Thank goodness it's a VW troll thread. If it were a Hyundai troll thread the bukkake faced fanboys would be frothing at the mouth

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    Did you buy the car for him? Are you paying for the parts? No? Ok.
    I think the fogs and europlate look nice on it. I do like the "non-cluttered look" too. But I vote let him do what he wants, it's not harming anyone.
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    I wouldn't keep any of them myself but I don't think they look bad at all.

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    At least the big rounds take the attention away from the oversized bumper bars.
    I'm a country member.

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