Thanks!

Last I checked, Vossen discontinued the CVT, and are all-in with their upscale ambitions. Only one monoblock left in their catalog. and it's not the CVT anymore. Sets that are still in retail inventory are twice the cost they used to be back in 2014.

 

Yea I absolutely loved their CV1 model wheels. About 2 years ago I noticed a set on craigslist for less than 1k in good shape and in the aluminum/chrome lip finish I wanted and just regret not getting them so bad.

 

@Rochester I just noticed your license plate. 6MT with 4.083 gears. Was that by chance or on purpose with personalized plates? That would be an amazing level of chance if it was a random thing. I haven't been on in a while but I do like to drop by periodically Oh and the icons are WAY better here than on the Q50 forum. Just sayin'.

 

Those are personalized plates. And you're exactly right... 4083 is for the gears. Good eye, twin_snails.

 

Another nicely done subtlety that few outside of the car enthusiast community would get.

 

Just curious, have you considered the JDM tails and a sport lip?

 

I've considered JDM tails, but after seeing them in person side-by-side to mine, the difference was so subtle that I just couldn't bring myself to care. If forced to say which was more appealing, I'd probably pick JDM, but not so much that I'd want to spend money and effort on the project.

The Sport Sedan front chin... yes, that was on/off my list so many times that I lost count over the years. On the plus side, it looks perfect for the Sport bumper, and is pretty uncommon. So in that respect it's certainly something I'd like to have.

On the negative side, I have a car with pearlescent white paint that's 12 years old. There's just no way the paint will ever match, it just won't. But the larger problem is that the rise from the street to the sidewalk at the end of my driveway is pretty severe, and I would scrape the bottom of that front lip every single time. I scrape often enough as it currently stands, regardless of the gymnastics I go through whenever I take the car out.

 

Fair enough. It's just the two items I think that would be in keeping with the style of your car. I will say that those JDM tails have gone for dirt cheap plenty of times and the install is pretty easy. I love the subtle differences and if I didn't have my depot lights I'd for sure do that myself.

 

I thought about JDM tails too - instead I found a LED bulb that has the right light wavelength to shine through the red plastic as amber.

 

What bulb is that, Mike?

 

https://www.diodedynamics.com/rear-t...edan-pair.html

the xp80 ones are bright enough and the right wavelength

 

Very nice. If I didn't have the tail-as-turn module, I'd get these and experiment.

 

On OEM tail light assemblies. Doesn't even hyper flash.