Dinan got a few things right.

[CleanAzzE30z]

A friend of mine has a Dinan e36 M stage one.

He had to pay $450 for floor mats just to get the badge.

Dinan is the cocaine of mod companies- It's a way of letting rich people know they have too much money.

Dont you ever speak of cocaine in that manner ever again and bite your tongue. ;)


Mariano

[CleanAzzE30z]

Where are the mods? That even looks like a fake Dinan badge. The Dinan exhaust is a stock exhaust that has some of the baffling removed by the way.

+1. All I see is a Dinan badge and Dinan exhaust tips.

Consider this your R3V welcome.


Mariano

[Mtriple]

A friend of mine has a Dinan e36 M stage one.

He had to pay $450 for floor mats just to get the badge.

Dinan is the cocaine of mod companies- It's a way of letting rich people know they have too much money.

Your friend got bent. I paid $100 for my Dinan Mats from the dealer.

Dinan is overpriced, I agree. At the time I bought my supercharger kit, the only other company that was offering them was RMS and ESS. Dinan's kit is expensive, but its engineered very well. Much better than the other two kits that were available at the time. It wasnt until 6 months later that AA began offering their SC. If I had to do it again, I would probably go Dinan just because the Vortech has more room to play than the Rotrex in terms of raising the boost.

Dinan has a "point" system by which your car qualifies for the badge, which is 10 points by the way. The supercharger gets you an automatic 10 pts and things like floormats are only worth 1 pt. It's all on the Dinan website...

Dont forget, Dinan mods have no effect on your factory warranty.

[s0urce]

Dont forget, Dinan mods have no effect on your factory warranty.

Thats real good for an e30 right?

[Mtriple]

Thats real good for an e30 right?

Sorry I didnt clarify myself better for those who like monkeys sticking fingers in other monkeys butts...

Most people who buy Dinan are doing so at the time of their vehicle purchase right at the dealer.

[Il Duce]

Dont you ever speak of cocaine in that manner ever again and bite your tongue. ;)


Mariano

BAh- I can't feel my tounge!!! It's numb! lol jk. I ain't dissin the yayo, I just know that if I need to stay the hell away from it. I can't even break myself from r3v... I'd get killed by the white devil.

[redhatpat]

Dinan gives 1 "mod point" for floor mats? Weak...

[Jand3rson]

Consider this your R3V welcome.


Mariano

Not trying to be an asshole, but I just don't see anything resembling Dinan mods other than the exhaust tips.

[Willis]

Thanks for the help witht he pics. So, im not the same Willis from bimmerforums. And as far as the mods, It has the Dinan stage 2 suspension with bilstein sports, the dinan exaust, and the dinan performance chip. The badge is a fake though, from eurobadges. The backstory is as follows: I used to work at an independant BMW shop called Black Forest Werkshop. While i was there, the shop got a contract with Dinan to be a liscensed distributor. Since i was an employee at the shop, i was technically a Dinan employee, so i got the employee discount(which made the parts LESS than at-cost). I figured about $1000 wasnt a bad deal for performance parts for my fresh E30 with 106,000 mi., so i went for it. I'll try to get more pics up as i take them.

[Willis]

Dinan badge.

Also, as far as the badge, anyone who has dealt directly with Dinan knows how much of a bitch it is to get anything done. They didnt include the badge with my order for some reason(though the parts totalled more than 10 pts), so after weeks of trying to get the badge from Dinan, i gave up and bought one from eurobadges. Heres a crappy pic of my rear suspension, pre-swaybar installation.

[Alecs MacDonald]

Those are dinan blue springs, no doubt about that. I thought all of their suspension kits came with koni shocks though....?

[Willis]

No, they have the option of either Bilstein or Koni. Personally, I prefer bilsteins, it seems to me that bilstein has the bolt-on, pretuned option, whereas the koni's, while ajdustable, may actually have to be adjusted for the proper effect.

[Willis]

By the way, since this is my thread, i might as well plug my facebook group, "BMW E30 Club", anyone on facebook should join.

[Raxe]

Also, as far as the badge, anyone who has dealt directly with Dinan knows how much of a bitch it is to get anything done. They didnt include the badge with my order for some reason(though the parts totalled more than 10 pts), so after weeks of trying to get the badge from Dinan, i gave up and bought one from eurobadges. Heres a crappy pic of my rear suspension, pre-swaybar installation.

I agree. I'm trying to work with Dinan too. Ordered the springs, got them just fine. Ordered the same Koni kit and Dinan only sent and charged me for 2, one front and one rear. GG. That was 8 months ago, still trying to get them to send me the other 2 shocks... Oh, and they sent me a real DINAN decklid badge already as well, with a point total of 5 or 6.

[egk2]

I never fell for the whole spend thousands of dollars on overpriced,
mediocre parts and get a Dinan badge thing.
In your case it was advantageous to go with Dinan because of your employee discount but for normal people to pay list prices is just
idiotic, $450 mats