Would you buy an original mtech 2 kit for $1500?

[joonsup]

dont mean to thread jack but would $400 for the oem mtech2 front valence itself brand new be worth it?

[Hey-U]

1500 is fair to good depending on condition. 700 for M3 is very good.
400 for new valence is fair.

[D-rock]

Thats a GREAT deal! If you have the door pods as well you better jump on this!

[D-rock]

And I highly suggest getting the drilling stencils for the side skirts and front valance. They aren't cheap (maybe $80 all together), but very very worth it.

Im glad i read this before i installed mine! :crazy:

[flyboyx]

as mentioned above by everyone that isn't a cheap bastard, 1500 is no steal, but is highly worth it if the kit is complete and in good condition. most tech 2 kits are for verts. you would want to make sure the skirts fit the car you have as they are different. piecing a kit together is spotty at best. finding all the parts would be one thing, but buying all the hardware from the dealer is not cheap by any means. way more than the 100.00 mentioned above. i wanted the m3 look for my car so instead of mtech 2 i found a m3 parts car with no drivetrain for about the price you are suggesting above. just sayin': that may not be the best deal out there, but if you like mtech 2 and you really want that on your car, you should buy it. these kits are hard to find here on this side of the pond. just check it out before you buy. negotiate the price lower for damage/missing parts, etc. do a search in the for sale section for m tech 2 and see what parts/kits have sold for in the last year.

[Alpina]

I do not know what you guys are complaining of,, i have recently purchased a complet sideskirts.. on a cabriolet ,, for 1900 US $ all incl,, the set was BRANDNEW without bumpers

and for a similair amount you can get both bumbers all incl

this stuff isnt available anymore

[kingston]

If that was for a sedan I'd be all over it. As Aplina above hinted at, these parts are only going to get more rare.

[schtozo]

The guy still didnt send me the pics, im waiting on him, well see what happens. My concerns are that if the kit was the right one and everything cool, i will have to full paint the car to make it a 100% perfect fit and match, and i kinda dont want to spend all that money.

[bimmerboy08]

I would be all over it. Its not all that more expensive than the kopi kits from abrahams motorsport, right?

[mikeedler]

the days of cheap e30 parts in europe are pretty much gone. M tech II kits in Germany are going for about 1500 dollars now too. hell, i look more for parts on R3V now than i do on German ebay.

[bimma360]

as mentioned above by everyone that isn't a cheap bastard, 1500 is no steal, but is highly worth it if the kit is complete and in good condition. most tech 2 kits are for verts. you would want to make sure the skirts fit the car you have as they are different. piecing a kit together is spotty at best. finding all the parts would be one thing, but buying all the hardware from the dealer is not cheap by any means. way more than the 100.00 mentioned above. i wanted the m3 look for my car so instead of mtech 2 i found a m3 parts car with no drivetrain for about the price you are suggesting above. just sayin': that may not be the best deal out there, but if you like mtech 2 and you really want that on your car, you should buy it. these kits are hard to find here on this side of the pond. just check it out before you buy. negotiate the price lower for damage/missing parts, etc. do a search in the for sale section for m tech 2 and see what parts/kits have sold for in the last year.

Not to nit pick but I have purchased all of the hardware from the dealer, last year actually. And like I said in my post.... it was roughly AROUND $100. I bought it all in two separate purchases, as I missed some stuff the first time around. First purchase, which had the majority of the hardware, was in the $90s. Second purchase, although I can't remember exactly was somewhere around $30.

[glucklich21]

Those $1.50 and $2.00 clamps and brackets get expensive- fast.

And the "new" ones you get from the dealer are possibly as old as the ones on your car. Some of my new hardware when I was remounting mine were yellowed from age, while some were a nice bright white.

[schtozo]

tomorrow the guy is gonna bring the kit so i can personally see it. where do have to look to know if its original or kopi?

[Acehye559]

I paid $1500 for my mtech 2 and I don't regret it one bit. I actually bought mine from A r3v member. I was about to piece together a kit and it was gunna come out to the same thing. Remember, if you paid $1500 now for mtech 2 a couple years later it's gonna have same value if not more value. E30 parts are getting rare and harder to find. Also, the front mtech 2 bumper and valance can be ordered from dealers but as for the back bumper they don't sell them anymore. So if you find a used back bumper jump on it right away. If I were I would have bought it on the spot. Good luck.

[Acehye559]

It's should have BMW markings and part numbers on it. Also the pods have the spot for the mtech sticker. Most of the time mtech2 aftermarket skirts and pods are one piece (except the door pod) and the front valance n bumper are one piece