Hi guys, been browsing since I started looking for 197's and this forum was a great help.
Picked up this 197 a couple of months ago and just started getting around to a few little jobs I had planned on the car.
First of all these are the only photos I have at the moment (shocking for a photographer! ;/)
Just in the middle of painting the calipers red so the car is jacked up in that photo on the other side.
My first job was to sort out the tatty looking grills, I'd heard quite abit about Plastidip being decent so thought I would give it a try seeing as its pretty cheap and impossible to mess up.
Here are the grilles before & after.
My next job is to get the rear diffuser sprayed black. Eventually will be getting it done gloss black but seeing as I have some spare cans of plastidip I'll give it a go with that first!
Only other thing I want to do to the car is to get the alloys refurbed in Anthracite. Used black plastidip on one wheel just to see if I liked the look but decided I'd much prefer anthracite
Absolutely love the car, such good fun to drive at the weekends. Previously had a BMW Z4 3.0i, BMW 330ci, Clio 182, BMW Z4 3.0si. The Z4 had to go as I'm getting married next year so its gone into the wedding fund, which left me with around £7k to choose a replacement. I'd make this same decision time and time again. Such a fun car to drive yet feels a little more grown up than the 182.
Picked up this 197 a couple of months ago and just started getting around to a few little jobs I had planned on the car.
First of all these are the only photos I have at the moment (shocking for a photographer! ;/)
Just in the middle of painting the calipers red so the car is jacked up in that photo on the other side.
My first job was to sort out the tatty looking grills, I'd heard quite abit about Plastidip being decent so thought I would give it a try seeing as its pretty cheap and impossible to mess up.
Here are the grilles before & after.
My next job is to get the rear diffuser sprayed black. Eventually will be getting it done gloss black but seeing as I have some spare cans of plastidip I'll give it a go with that first!
Only other thing I want to do to the car is to get the alloys refurbed in Anthracite. Used black plastidip on one wheel just to see if I liked the look but decided I'd much prefer anthracite
Absolutely love the car, such good fun to drive at the weekends. Previously had a BMW Z4 3.0i, BMW 330ci, Clio 182, BMW Z4 3.0si. The Z4 had to go as I'm getting married next year so its gone into the wedding fund, which left me with around £7k to choose a replacement. I'd make this same decision time and time again. Such a fun car to drive yet feels a little more grown up than the 182.
