Custom car/new ride? Post pics here!
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Thanks for that! Saved for the future whenever I can get around to it. Just got home and managed to quickly get my center dash and "waterfall" removed rather quickly. Will be heading to look for paint tomorrow after work so it can be back together by monday. Still have not fully made up my mind if I want to change the silver trim to white or a blue variant to match my car. Nice part is if I ever want to switch the color to something else easily.
Very nice, I really like that color that you used for your calipers. It looks almost like the color Lavender? Did you have any trouble with removing the trim around your gauges?
Thank you its actually a dark blue. I had not planned to do the calipers yet. ALL autozone had was blue, red, gray and black. I considered engine paint because they had more colors but the engine paint is only heat resistant to 500 degrees while the calipers are 900. I did not feel the red or black would look good so I went dark blue. Much easier to do than I thought actually thinking my civic next since I have plenty of paint leftover,
As far as removing the gauge trim its actually easier to remove than the waterfall. Just drop the steering wheel down (where the adjust lever is ) and pull lightly. Easiest piece to remove but did have to wiggle a little more to put it back a only a extra 30 sec.
I ended up with these http://www.discounttiredirect.com/d...14352-50951&counter=3&type=w&rd=18&vid=017580
The are white with a silver machine finished lip. Living in the south I dont have to worry about potholes that much so I decided to get 18's since I plan on lowering my car sometime in the next year.
Sadly I live hrs away from any shop that has rims so I went the online route. They arrived inflated with nitro and balanced ready to be put on the car.
Those are nice but man I would constantly be having to clean white like everyday because of where I work, very nice though. I finally decided the other day that I was going with the HD Racing red Spinout rims. It's these here.
It'll be 40 to 60 days before Discount Tire will get them in though. Since I already have 18" rims all they have to do is switch out the tires and transfer over the TPMS sensors and I'll be good to go.
I think they will look pretty sweet honestly. 40-60 days huh wow thats a long time ! They must be hard to get but at least you can get them and they can do a easy swap for you so you are not dishing out for tires.
One pain with mine was I went from the stock 17's to 18's and since they dont have any shops in my state I was SOL! Oh well I still like what I ended up with. The white is actually not been too bad for me but I plan on keeping it as a weekend /travel car to help balance my civic miles.I do wish I had a garage to keep my cars in as a bird **** all over my Scion back window and wheels the day after I put a nice wax down . Also they are putting down asphalt where I have to travel unfortunately so I am not driving her and shes still torn apart as Im still messing around with parts. I ordered a custom shift boot that I am still waiting on to come in.
So I finally got my new leather shift boot installed really the last piece I was waiting for. And I also got a brake leather cover as well. Black and white.
@Xavier very nice! I like that shift knob too and you can't go wrong sportin' a Monster drink along the way.There's so much I want to do to mine that sometimes it's hard to decide on what to do next.
Thanks! Really like it has some decent weight to it much easier to throw than the Factory. Pretty happy the way things turned out may hop in the back seat tomorrow and get a few pics . Still need to do the door handles but I have been crazy busy with work. Slept over 12 hrs today as its my first day off in a week and a half .
Double monster BTW has to keep me awake so I can get to work
. For now I will just take a bit of a breather before any more work. I did get a Ledglow interior light kit that will be here mid week. Just wanted a simple clean kit for this car.May put on next weekend since I took off for my Bday. I had a unexpected trip come up for end of June down to Cape coral for family and I recently ordered some Hot Toys so my June / July /Aug budget is now gone (Damn Sideshow sales and weddings
) but hey priorities right ? I do have a 3rd car that im finally going to put up for sale and anything I get from it is going towards New TC parts .
i have gone through a few rides...
my first car was a 2000 Nissan Altima... it was low, loud and slow... haha...
def grew up with my next car... and had a very quick 2005 Subaru Legacy GT... i still miss her to this day... transmission issues forced me into getting rid of her...
grew up a little more... 2011 Mazda 3 Hatch... aside from tints, it was a boring daily...
i missed the awd and the turbo of my old subie... but i did come to appreciate having a hatch... so this past Feb i picked up my new 2015 Subaru Forester XT... glad to be back in a a turbo vehicle!
my first car was a 2000 Nissan Altima... it was low, loud and slow... haha...
def grew up with my next car... and had a very quick 2005 Subaru Legacy GT... i still miss her to this day... transmission issues forced me into getting rid of her...
grew up a little more... 2011 Mazda 3 Hatch... aside from tints, it was a boring daily...
i missed the awd and the turbo of my old subie... but i did come to appreciate having a hatch... so this past Feb i picked up my new 2015 Subaru Forester XT... glad to be back in a a turbo vehicle!
There are no lights that blind on coming traffic bro. If that we're the case they wouldn't be allowed on vehicles due to traffic violations. If you experienced a blinding effect due to headlights being too bright is either caused be someone that has there brights on as they approach you or they have there headlights angled facing more upward rather than facing the road which is more common than you think.
you are wrong my friend, it's the new headlights with LED that are blinding, even worse with their hi beams on
I'm afraid your wrong bro, if it was blinding DOT wouldn't allow them to be installed on automobiles.
I don't mean permanent blinding. And I am not the only one that complains about them. There is no need for that bright a light
I think you have LED lights mistaken with something else, the only difference is that LED is much whiter, not brighter. Your mistaken them with a HID kit which are much brighter.
