Haha :p I meant if the flip paint was damaged, it would need half the car repainting to sort it out. It's proving quite difficult with the slab sided nature of the beast, plus I don't really want to make it look daft or chivvy. I wanted it to have a difference but not like the daft orange...

Blimey, you don't want much do you?!!! Simply because I actually want to use this truck off-road for part of the year and anything that has a flip controller in it would require the entire half of the car being repainted :( otherwise the flip paint would have been my first option as i have a...

Ok, so you guys were right and I was wrong. It looks better than the alien vomit blue, but still looks terrible :( A tad devastated but nevermind. It just isn't going to look right over the whole shell. Oh well, black it is!! guess it's time to look like a dealer :cool:

One of my best friends has an Epsom green one on an 'S' reg, looks just like gfromleeds one, and it's a bit marmitey. Love it or hate it, but i agree it doesn't look all that good in the sunlight. But this one of mine.....awful is a compliment!

Thankfully someone knows the colour in person!! Once you've seen this colour there really is no forgetting it! The purple is lovely, it really is, so I'm hoping to get a bit done at a time, around the head gasket replacement, AGAIN! I'll keep you all posted with progress. i might paint the...

Just do a search for bmw techno violet on google an you'll see the colour and what it does. Most of the time it remains a pretty deep purple only in the sun does it spring to life. It's very beautiful though. I've painted a 7 colour flip before and that was complicated! But it was beautiful...

You like the original colour???? There's a reason it was only on these for one year!! Honestly I can't stand it, I've tried sooooo hard to like it but as very panel needs repainting except one, due to scratches dents and someone deciding to remove cramp with a Brillo pad, I may as well change...

Dead lord I'd never consider turning a perfectly decent MK2 into an Underpigeon! :( The parts don't fit correctly, I don't care what anyone says (being a paint shop owner!) and they look totally out of proportion when they finished. Rant over! Actually no it's not, once you've finished paying...

As I'm waiting for space in my workshop to be able to do the work on the other head gasket, I thought I might as well have a bash at a front end facelift and try out my new paint colour for the old bus. Let me know what you think. Before and after pictures are below. :D

Thanks, the more I look at it the more I think the block is cracked but the proof will be in the pudding when I get the head off, just no time. Anyway, like n idiot I got my colour wrong, the picture I posted is actually BMW Technoc Violet, not daytona violet, so I'm painting it that colour...

Maybe if I tell you I'm a paint sprayer by trade, it'll help you judge my decision!! Having painted this colour myself previously, I actually think it will do the car justice, well I hope so as once its done its a bit late!! Ill keep you posted but I won't be painting it for a while yet as...

Haha there's always one! :)

I was thinking that myself!! Well I'm going to strip the head off at the weekend if I get chance, might be next week. Is there a telltale indication that the block is cracked? I'm only asking in case the gasket is intact....god I hope it's not intact!

And again!

BMW Daytona Violet :D

I was asking because some engines use their bolt holes as waterways, ,was wondering if this was the same. Obviously not!!

Wow, I'd never have guessed?!! Anywhere else??!

Nope!!

Would a crack in the block cause a ylinder to fill up in 3 hours? Ps thanks for giving me a heart attack!! Where are the waterways in the heads apart from either end?

Wow thank you for all those pics! Kinda made my mind up tho...dunno whether you'll all like it tho...!