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No, as AC Schnitzer are not a British company and do not exclusively supply the British market.
How can a company selling aftermarket products not be classed as aftermarket just becuase they have managed to sell their products through BMW main dealers in one of their many markets?
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[TW]Fox;16478591 said:
okay fair enough lol. but still, he could want something that is sporty anyway, and his mods not aimed at making it look more sporty..........
Just to answer the original question (I cant beleive I need to this but I will and I'll try not to be patronising).
If you want to fit a bodykit, you'll need to order the kit and then have it sprayed and fitted to the car. To do this, you'll need to use a bodyshop. It will be reasonably expensive - to get the sort of finish that wont make a brand new car look out of place expect to pay in the order of £800-£1000 for a really, really good job of fitting and spraying a front bumper, a rear bumper and some sideskirts and perhaps a spoiler. The kit itself - nobody here will know where to order bits for a G37 so you'll need to search online. I will warn you though that most bodykits are very poor in terms of quality and wont match the finish of your car.
You must also be aware that you are likely to void the bodywork warranty on your car by fitting aftermarket equipment to it.
Next the lowering. You'll need new springs and probably new matched dampers, though you might get away with stock dampers as they will be new. This will need to be done by some sort of mechanic, but be aware you'll void the warranty for all suspension components on the car by doing this and its unlikely anything available for such a new model will be properly tested and improve anything on the car, or is guaranteed to work well with it.
Effectively its a pretty bad idea - you are likely to 'ruin' the car because the workmanship is unlikely to be anything like that on a brand new Infiniti. Your best bet is to pick factory options to acheive what you want, and if that isnt possible, look elsewhere for a car from another manufacturer.
If you want to fit a bodykit, you'll need to order the kit and then have it sprayed and fitted to the car. To do this, you'll need to use a bodyshop. It will be reasonably expensive - to get the sort of finish that wont make a brand new car look out of place expect to pay in the order of £800-£1000 for a really, really good job of fitting and spraying a front bumper, a rear bumper and some sideskirts and perhaps a spoiler. The kit itself - nobody here will know where to order bits for a G37 so you'll need to search online. I will warn you though that most bodykits are very poor in terms of quality and wont match the finish of your car.
You must also be aware that you are likely to void the bodywork warranty on your car by fitting aftermarket equipment to it.
Next the lowering. You'll need new springs and probably new matched dampers, though you might get away with stock dampers as they will be new. This will need to be done by some sort of mechanic, but be aware you'll void the warranty for all suspension components on the car by doing this and its unlikely anything available for such a new model will be properly tested and improve anything on the car, or is guaranteed to work well with it.
Effectively its a pretty bad idea - you are likely to 'ruin' the car because the workmanship is unlikely to be anything like that on a brand new Infiniti. Your best bet is to pick factory options to acheive what you want, and if that isnt possible, look elsewhere for a car from another manufacturer.
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The thing that is ruining this thread is all the people who seem to want to defend something that isn't there.
Aspiring car modder? Yeah, cos wasting £40k+ is what an inspiring person spends on first car.
Maybe doesn't want something sporty? Op says he wants something sporty!
Aspiring car modder? Yeah, cos wasting £40k+ is what an inspiring person spends on first car.
Maybe doesn't want something sporty? Op says he wants something sporty!
Exactly that. He posted an... 'interesting' thread, a few of us commented and were then forced to make the same point 10 times because a few others decided to jump to the op's 'defence' and make confusingly stupid points about how in France ACS are aftermarket, and how once somebody saw a Hartge even though I never said it 'never' happened and how he might not want something sporty even though he said he did.
Result is 2 pages of crap blamed on me and Morba when in reality it's mjt's constant labouring of a completely irrelevent point and Harry trying in vain to find some sort of random excuse as to why its totally normal to order a brand new G37 and take it down the railway arches to get slammed on some twennyfoinch rimz.
Still, I've answered the op's question now
I don't consider stuff sold through the dealer network as aftermarket - so thats Abarth, Irmscher, ACS until recently. End of. It's that simple. Stop continuing to argue about it.
It doesnt even matter if I accept, because it doesnt change the point I made that its 'rare' as our roads are not full of ACS modified cars either.
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[TW]Fox;16478606 said:
With regards to the body kit, to get a decent paint finish on the add on obits you will need it done proffesionally really, (unless you went for matt/satin black or something, like if you just put a front splitter or something more subtle on) but I don't see why you can't fit a body kit yourself, if it's just new bumpers/sills.
Also with lowering, if you just want it to look lower, but don't care about handling too much, you could easily cut the existing springs yourself.
It's a brand spanking new FORTY THOUSAND POUND premium saloon!
Why would you DIY a set of sideskirts, spray it matt black and cut the springs?!?!?
This is EXACTLY why a few of us chuckled at the thread..
This thread gets worse
It's going exactly the way I was thinking it would before I made my first post, and why I thought from the outset that it was a thread of 'HUH'.
Ironically though its the OP Defence Force members that have taken it that way, rather than the OP himself!
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[TW]Fox;16478643 said:
ey? I said you could get away with spraying something like a front splitter in matt black.
why wouldn't you DIY a set of sideskirts? some people find it fun...
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what would you be messing up though? providing your fairly handy, it's not going to be hard to fit some new rims and a subtle body kit...
You can of course do what you like with a 40k car, its just most people dont bother.