Nogaro Silver Alpina's

[SA E30]

I was thinking when I buy my Alpina's (17" copies, too long to exlpain why I don't get originals). I'm gonna get them Powder Coated, that same colour or as close as possible as I can, and get the lip polished. What u guys think, and can anybody photoshop me a picture to see if it is really that good looking

[M-technik-3]

I know why copies as opposed to orignals, $$$$$

The subject was just talked about 3 days ago roughly.

[SA E30]

A little of that, and in SA it is seriously hard to find them, and then they are all in 16", do u know what post this was?

[M-technik-3]

thread 4185 about 5 below this by Matte30 only thing is he's using basketweaves. The general appearance would be the same.

I would imagine that the kopies are slightly heavier than the originals.

[SA E30]

Oh yeah, I saw that, but isn't he painting his?, I wanna get them powder coated and I just was wondering if they will get messed up with cleaning them and everyhting

[M-technik-3]

A good powder coating shop will do exactly what you want but they can't do pwder coating over paint. It needs to be prepped for it. Depends on shop most will want to do it them self to make sure they are done right.

[SA E30]

I will get the wheels stripped, which is also nice cause then it will be cheaper to polish the lips up

[nando]

A little of that, and in SA it is seriously hard to find them, and then they are all in 16", do u know what post this was?

The original Alpinas are all 16"

[mph]

The original Alpinas are all 16"

Thats correct, at least for E30's. They had:

• 7" x 16" offset 28 (3er E30)
  8" x 16" offset 28 (3er E30)
  8" x 16" offset 24 (M3 E30

Part No. 36 11 149 from KSK Distributing, CA USA. (4) 7" x 16" offset 28 (3er E30) for $2,332.00.

[Court M3]

Please post a pic of them powdercoated. Was thinking of getting mine done, but don't want to take away from the original color. Open to ideas though :)

[SA E30]

Not all Alpina's were 16" the Alpina 850i, and it came out with 17"[/img]

[aaron_silva]

Not all Alpina's were 16" the Alpina 850i, and it came out with 17"[/img]

Thats correct, at least for E30's

[nando]

Not all Alpina's were 16" the Alpina 850i, and it came out with 17"[/img]

Thats correct, at least for E30's

and that is what I meant. last time I checked, none of us here own an Alpina 850i. ;)