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Photo session after this afternoon washing session

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Old 10-21-2008 | 09:36 AM
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Here are some pictures of my ride after this afternoon washing.
Recently I did some small mods on it.
I cut glued and painted the front license plate holder to match the size of Italian front plate.
I changed the OEM rear muffler with one from the 545i Touring. No changes whatsoever in noise or performances but the look is much better. IMHO it suites much better the Msport look.

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Old 10-21-2008 | 10:01 AM
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Nice and clean. Great work.
Old 10-21-2008 | 10:01 AM
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Old 10-21-2008 | 10:13 AM
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MR Clean AutoDry is a beautiful thing
Old 10-21-2008 | 06:04 PM
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Looks great , very tight looking "wagon" wish we saw more like this over here....
Old 10-22-2008 | 01:05 AM
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Looks great!

Pleased to see you got round to changing out the front number plate holder -- looks much much better
Old 10-22-2008 | 10:18 AM
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Sweet. I wish I could get a non xi in the states. It looks so much better when lowered.
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Great pics ///Marco.it,

And I mean not only your fine car...
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Originally Posted by ///Marco.it' post='698908' date='Oct 21 2008, 05:36 PM
Here are some pictures of my ride after this afternoon washing.
Recently I did some small mods on it.
I cut glued and painted the front license plate holder to match the size of Italian front plate.
I changed the OEM rear muffler with one from the 545i Touring. No changes whatsoever in noise or performances but the look is much better. IMHO it suites much better the Msport look.


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I have an old pic of your ride with the original rear muffler -- see below. I think I can see a difference to the pics above with the 545 muffler, but its hard to tell. In real life is there a noticable difference between the size of the two mufflers?

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