E36 Compact/coupe

[omarion]

Want to start slowly Modifying my compact

and have a few quick questions.

It suffers from a dated interior and have been looking at a leather replacement... Will compact interiors fit or can coupe ones also fit? or the e46 ones and are they straight forward to fit?

I want to lower the car too as it looks too high for my liking, i want it to sit LOW but not TOO LOW lol was looking at 60mm all round... will that rub? i have 17s on it atm or is 40mm enough?... will get round to doing the shocks too but funds are tight atm.

also want a nice set of angle eyes... you get horrible projector ones etc but i still want the car to look original, are they expensive/hard to install?

Thanks

Like these ones

And these

Not these

How low you think?

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

40mm is plenty.. any lower and the tyres will rub against your ears !!!:lol:

[Snypa-D]

Make sure you do 40m at the rear and 60m at the front cos beemers sit higher at the front,I found this out the hard way.You can also pick up a set of coilovers nowadays for between 150-200 quid,which is cheap as chips really,Im saving for mine now ;) Not sure about the interior but Id def go for a set of leathers :)

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Totally in agreement with you, Dave... Be careful not to fall into the fact that the front arches are larger and tyre/wheel choices will have to be made for the 60mm drop ! (just adding matey)

[Beeemeeer328i]

you can go on ebay and buy an angel eye kit for your standerd headlights i think its £30 which isnt to bad ,but since ive never brought one i dont know if its any good :/

[Spannerdog]

I looked into fitting some angel eyes to my 740 and may well do it in the spring I had a look at this site and it would appear that it means almost stripping the headlights down to component parts and I'm not sure I want to do that

http://www.meeknet.co.uk/E38/Angel/Index.htm

Its not that I'm not confident when it comes to things like this but I'm a great advocate of the good old saying "if it aint broke, dont fix it"

So I am now looking for a set of xenon headlights on ebay so I can tinker to my hearts content and get it done right without leaving my pride and joy with no lights if things go wrong..