Opinions please...

Once she passes her MOT (please oh mighty God of rust, smite me not) next month, the coops going into a body shop for some TLC.

I'm having the entire front end re-sprayed (bonnet is a mess), and the black bits front and back body coloured.

I'm pondering whether or not to fit LE skirts, or get the existing skirts shot blasted and resprayed to match.

Quick photoshop mockup on normal skirts (we all know what LE looks like)

Shot blasted? Are they not plastic??

Le lips and skirts

I agree, LE lips'n skirts.

Skirts and lips

Lips and skirts.

Just skirts, lips are a liability!!

I like the colour coded standard skirts.

This! First coop I've had with lips. Awful crunching and loss of paint every time I reverse off the drive. If they were fibre glass they would be a right mess.
I like the look of your car with colour coded sills

Reverse onto the drive , job done

Lips and skirts

Photoshop! I`m still using paint. I have crunched one time, so re-profiled drive.

both look better than std! skirts and new style front bumper?

You know where the lumps are on your drive, what about everywhere else? I have a Plus and am forever scuffing the bottom of the lips.

Thanks for the input guys... to be honest I don't like the look of lips anyway so they're a definitely no no.

I think ill see what the body shop says. If removing the black textured stuff from the skirts is going cost a lot, then ill probably go LE.

Anybody used Max Bidwell just outside Norwich? He's been recommend a few times around here.

Go back to normal ride height, won't be a problem then those lips.

I've been doing this with my crono after a suspension change. It got so bad that I was bottoming out on speed bumps where I live (never happened before). It actually ruined my break in the UK, I was so looking forward to getting home and driving the car. In the end, I was put off taking it out in case I really damaged something! Disappointed wasn't the word!

That's even worse, super crunch

OK, another quick mock-up (bit crap, no Photoshop at work), this time with the LE skirts.



I can't deny it looks great!

My days of spots,spoilers&skirts are long gone, that's for sure, but that's of no importance. It's your car so you make the choices, it's like food. What I've found with skirted vehicles however, when it comes to jacking up the car having skirts can make the job not so straight forward shall we say.

Not impossible, but it's so easy to damage them.

How do the skirts impede the jacking points? Or is it more a case of the jack itself hitting the skirts on its way up/down?

Heres my wine red coupe with skirts etc.

You will need some wood to drive on to to get a standard jack underneath or use the low race jacks which will slide straight under.

I have recently removed mine as i the kit had took a battering from local speed bump and frankly annoying me all the while. So back to colour coding for me.

Gorgeous... Brilliant job and the LE skirts + lips = Cherry on top!... I would repaint them every day if I have to and still keep them on!

Can't wait to get mine from AUTODS...

As Markiz says, she's looking very nice!

Love that colour.

Those photos were instrumental in convincing me the wine red was the one for me. Beautiful.

You will need some wood to drive on to to get a standard jack underneath or use the low race jacks which will slide straight under.

I have recently removed mine as i the kit had took a battering from local speed bump and frankly annoying me all the while. So back to colour coding for me. [/quote]

Aye, that about sums it up & at the risk of sounding like a gloom & doom merchant...

Just to conclude this thread, despite previous convictions I went with LE skirts, lips and a Zender rear lip.

Very pleased with the results

Looks awesome mate

You just made me miss my coupe!

Hope my insurance company and the solicitors sort it out soon.

Yours Looks

Haha sorry muzzy, best of luck with yours. Id be borderline killing spree if somebody did that to mine...

Had no issues with the lips despite plenty of bad roads and speed bumps recently, standard ride height seems to be the solution

Any pics of the rear lip fitted?

Not yet, its still in the post! Assuming it arrives this week it'll be fitted next weekend

Just need some for mine now

Cool, look forward to some pics. Mine has the classic bumper melt so I'm toying with the idea for mine before I get the paint done.

I have to say I'm coming round to wine red. Originally not on my radar, but yours looks the part!

Cheers szkom, I didn't set out for a wine red initially, black is usually my colour but the only decent inky around when I was in the market was so modified my insurance through a wobbly (only 1 years no claim at the time).

Now I honestly think (except for maybe an electric blue plus) that wine red is the perfect colour. Its the classy version of the classic Ferrari red

Yeah mine has grown on me big time but I think speed red le is the ultimate or broom yellow 16vt

will look very smart 147 photos once fitted

Your order is on the way.. sent on Monday.

Correct, one of the better colours

Lovely car mate. Bigger wheels would suit such an angular body kit, the 16s look a little swamped.

Yeah needs bigger wheels