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So will it be possible to update a D3 with a D4 front?
Just wondering whilst looking at the pictures of the D4 will a front upgrade be possible?
13th Apr 2009 1:06 pm
MARKW
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Apparently not. Something about the length of the front wings HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
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13th Apr 2009 1:32 pm
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MARKW wrote:
Apparently not. Something about the length of the front wings
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13th Apr 2009 5:20 pm
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So to get this right. If I want to have some nice LED lights I need, everything from the windscreen forward. That is never worth it. If it only required a front nose job that could be tolerated. But to change the whole front of the car is just daft I tell you. Just daft HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
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13th Apr 2009 5:27 pm
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Are you sure the front wings are shorter ???
13th Apr 2009 6:37 pm
MARKW
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Not definitely. It's just something that I've read/heard somewhere. I could be wrong though. Usually am HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE
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13th Apr 2009 6:47 pm
simon
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I think its only been 'reported' on the forum TBH.
Looking at the press images I can't easily see that they are shorter. And TBH, no other sheet metal has been changed as far as I am aware, so why change the wings ?
Headlight shape is different to account for the new grill, and of course the bumper is re-profiled.
13th Apr 2009 6:57 pm
DaveT
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I've just twisted my neck. Can anyone recommend how to put it back?
Oh, and no, you can't lick your own elbow
Think the wings just look different because the top/rear of the bumper slopes in a different way to the D3.
Mind you, the panel is different .... fake vent Long succession of Disco's since 2001...
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13th Apr 2009 8:24 pm
countrywide
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I never knew that about your elbow, but your right.
I bet the Simmonite offer a upgrade kit evenutally like they did for the D2 to the new light shape etc
13th Apr 2009 8:28 pm
simon
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DaveT wrote:
Mind you, the panel is different .... fake vent
of course -
Well same length still I think, but with a hole in on of them that was not there before then
13th Apr 2009 9:48 pm
GraemeS
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My March order for a particular colour MY09 had to be changed/cancelled due to the colour being discontinued for MY10. I assumed therefore that bodies painted in colours that were being continued were able to be used for either model, which would mean that the bodies are unchanged.
13th Apr 2009 11:58 pm
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On the 09's I seen, the panels are all different colours anyway!
The D4 wing does look shorter on a lot of photo's - like the headlight wraps around further? You can spot it because the front wheel arch now meets the bumper/headlight join. It doesn't look like much but when you remember the headlight now stops higher, that's quite a bit shorter....ie there's almost no gap here as circled in the photo.
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14th Apr 2009 12:11 am
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Bear in mind though that the top pic there is a computer generated image, and the bottom one is an actual vehicle
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