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      09-05-2014, 03:37 PM   #7
James550i6spd
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Originally Posted by Dippydo View Post
I struggled with this as well. You can google f30 M sport and find them in all ways. The problem I think with painting the bottom or the complete is rock chips since it is so close to the ground and depending on how careful of a driver you can have scrape marks too that will make it look like crap instantly.

For me the all painted look made it appear like a cheap ground effects kit in my opinion. Made the front look like a continuous wall which I thought opposite and took away the lines more than keeping it black. Doing only the bottom lip was my first preference but where I live we have winter and we have a ton of sand on the roads from winter so it would not be long before it looked like crap.
I hate to admit but I was an Honda ricer dude in my teen years so the slammed with a body kit look is a little too familiar for me.

I may even keep my BMW stock height (M sport) so as to minimize this issue..but yes i am well aware of this problem. Once you bottom out on the lip, the urethane will stretch and the entire paint structure can start to crack off.
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