Well having recently been a victim of a faultless accident. Where an impatient fella in his M3 decided to reverse his car into the rear nearside of mine. The inconvenience at the time has worked out well for me.

Originally the Coupe had the melted rear bumper around the exhaust, and a few dings on the rear quarter. The bumper was replaced - so no longer melted, fully colour coded, (whereas the original had the black lip), the rear quarter has been repaired, and all dings and marks taken out. And as a favour, the bodyshop have de-seamed the rear lights so they are now blended and smoothed.

Pictures taken on a dodgy Nokia phone, will get some better ones set up. And if anyone in Essex or surrounding areas need any bodywork doing on their Coupe, PM me, and I can supply details of the bodyshop - who is top-notch.

Pictures:

Rear side which was dented, now super smooth.
From the front. (Kit courtesy of our friend Mariusz)
Front - Zender bumper courtesy of Mariusz
No more melted bumper!
Close up of blended rear lights
Complete rear new look
Complete rear again, and a Canary Palm, which will grow below freezing....

Comments good or bad are welcome.

I still need to re-fit the front bumper, as I rushed it last time, so it's sagging a little on the drivers side. Once I get into the new property, I'll have the chance to.

But overall, I think she's looking good...

not too sure about the led lights...

But get a nice set of eibachs thrown in now and she'll be tight as a tight thing

Looks very nice

looks cool, cos it's quite an original mod. it's the little details isn't it?

The rear lights are MEGA nice.

Ross

i love the smothed lights.
i think they bring the look of the rear right up to date

love it, looks a good job - would prefer green, but that's just personal taste...

Looks very nice - I like the lights etc...

Good work.

blended rear lighs look awesome! and I've never seen that before.

Second what Pinin just said. Very nice mate!

and me as above

Me them

You may have started a new craze

like the de-lock too

looks the mutts nuts

Wow, exact same thing happened to me 3 months ago. Sat at some lights with my tipless exhaust slowly doing a dali on my bumper and a girl in a pug 106 forgot she had brakes. One non fault claim and several weeks later her insurance paid for a new bumper, exhaust from cat back and a complete rear end respray(The only damage she did was mark the bumper, finally getting value for money outa my skyhigh premiums).

Must be a silver coop thing

Oh yeh love em smooth light

Love the rear lights

Has given me an idea.............


Oh, but that bodyshop has nicked your rear wiper!

Very nice, I agree though that she does need lowered.

Seen the lights done like that before, very classy and does bring the rear end up to date.

Glad you took the advise on the lights it deffinatly finishes it off

For anyone interested how it looks in red heres my one with blended lights

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/adyr5/ft.jpg

Thanks for comments.

The rear wiper is at home, eventually I *may* get a 1.8 16v rear window (Carlt?), so that it doesn't need the blanking grommet. For me I'd never use the rear wiper anyway (it only wipes half the rear screen anyway), and prefer the smooth look.

The bodyshop chap said that he was surprised not many others had done the smoothing of the lights. He explained that as you have quite a hard corner from the back panel to the wing, it made the blending quite an easy job. As you only have to work on the back panel alone, and not worry about the wings or top of the wings. You can't see a join at all.

Adyr: Thanks for the pics on PM again, although by that point the work was underway, but it certainly made my mind up, that it would bring the rear end right up to date.

And for those who have notice the H reg Uno next to the Coop. Not one spot of rust on her either. Although, she'll now be my daily drive, but the old girl does well. And the best thing is she's so mechanically simple, if anything does foul up it's usually a doddle to fix. Eg: Cambelt, with tensioner bought, and fitted myself. £30....

*Double post*

I forgot to mention. The coop is actually lowered, but on that slope with the handbrake on, it tends to pitch the car so it looks like she's raised a bit at the back.

I'll probably get a couple more pics together when I have a moment of her on the level.

Lowered on Eibachs, with standard (low mileage) shocks.

why wouldn't you need the grommet in the 1.8 rear window? I own one and I have a rear wiper....

Regarding the rear windscreen:

See this thread

didn't know that...I have to get mine broken