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1- if you don't plan to keep the car for long: no mod
2- if you plan to keep it: depend
2a- if you like to play with your car: mod
2b- don't spend $$ to mod the car just because you got beaten by some others. There will ALWAYS be some mods bug, civic, integra, etc out there faster than yours.
Sorry for my writing skill. Hope you understand what I mean.

yes you are right,,, when you trade in your car, for example, there is only one check box for "alloy wheels." there is no check box for "19" schnitzer 3-piece wheels."

thus you see a lot of people here posting their aftermarket stuff for sale cuz they stipped their car before they traded it in and are trying to get some money back.

but why think about resale when you buy these things? that would just take the fun out of owning the goodies. just about everything depreciates, except maybe for a house or something like that.

Hey guys, I just got a stock 96 328i, low miles, sport package etc and I have been bitten by the mod bug. Can't stop thinking about what I am going to do to the car etc. However, recently I have been thinking, maybe I'm going over board. Sure I'd like my ride customized with the basics such as a good sound system, etc. but do i want to plop down money for these mods. The reason I have been thinking this way is because I keep hearing you guys say that all the mods you do are not going to be worth shit when you sell the car. So to me, the 3000 dollars or so that it takes (including labor for some of the more serious mods) for these mods can instead be invested, to give you a pretty good chunk of change in several years towards a newer car (beemer of course) that has all or some of the mods as stock(better exhaust, better sound, better handling etc.)
Now I think i'll end up doing some mods anyway, but I just wanted to see what you guys thought?

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