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08-28-2018, 01:45 PM | #1 |
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Bad news since my first post :/
So I remember posting about servicing my E90 330d M-Sport Pre LCI 2006. What amazing, detailed responses you guys gave and I could not be more appreciative.
I had the service booked in later that week and unfortunately on a rainy day, some idiot breaks intensely hard at a green light and I was right behind him. Long story short, my front end is abit effed and sadly it's all my fault in the eyes of insurance even when I pushed the agenda that he break checked my ass. His 04 plate Mini Cooper literally only had a cracked back bumper and dented his exhaust a tad but I'm sure he's trying to get paid out and got injury claims to hand in. However my car suffered more-so, Bonnet, Headlights and Front Bumper and my Slam Panel & Rad got screwed. I'm in the process of writing the car off and buying it back as the engine is still sound and I love the car. I'm looking at front ends at the moment and I had a few questions. Would I be able to put a M-Sport LCI front end on my car? Would it fit, my side-arches are totally intact. So if I sourced a LCI M-Sport Front end(bonnet,bumper,headlights,rad + slam panel) would that fit directly onto my Pre LCI M-Sport? I've asked a few people and got mixed responses, curious to know the facts and if I could LCI facelift my car whilst I'm sadly car-less and looking at my lovely machine broken on my drive everyday |
08-29-2018, 01:56 AM | #2 | |
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To answer the question, an LCI bumper won't fit a pre-LCI car, or not easily anyway. Why not just source pre-LCI parts? Last edited by CitizenKane; 08-29-2018 at 02:06 AM.. |
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Thats why I'm writing in a defeatist tone, I've understood and recognised my error with-in other errors and must learn from this. My first ever incident, hopefully the last. But thanks for also replying to the question, I have sourced a front end but its silver atm. I'm hoping a Le Mans Blue front end pops up on ebay or a breakers to save the cost of full re-sprays that the silver will need. Just in the insurance process and repair part atm, thought if I could do a front conversion now would be the best time to. But not now ofcourse. |
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I see. To be fair now is probably the best time to do a front-end conversion if you need to replace front-end parts anyway. In fact now that I think about it the main reason the LCI bumper is a pain to fit to a pre-LCI car is because it doesn't fit all the surrounding bits like the bonnet and headlights, but if you're replacing all of those as well then maybe it would be easier. I do know the headlight washer location is different on LCI cars though, so not sure how to get around that. I'm certain there is at least one DIY/build thread on this forum showing how to do this. |
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