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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Overall I am very happy with the outcome, The rear bumper lip’s aren’t exactly what I was expecting but they are on and its all good.
Parts ready for silver and clear.
Side skirt I repaired, mazdaspeed side skirt add-ons, rear bumper lips.
Silver should be here tomorrow so installation on Friday hopefully
Rear bumper lip add-ons turned up… These are the first OEM part I have got for my car at a crazy low price and that’s why they are yellow… I will be sanding and repainting silver so no worries :)
I know… another picture of my car… blah blah complain lol
Black Vinyl roof… not much needs to be said.
Updated photos of my car, they will change tomorrow so this is a before and after situation…
Car Projects
I have got back into the car projects mood, yesterday I removed the side skirt (side air damn) to fix back up from damage I did 2 years ago… I was backing out of a driveway without noticing the curb at the time until it was to late and scratched all the plastic up, last night I sanded it back down and will be painting it ASAP.
Also scheduled an appointment on Friday to get Vinyl done, (pics should be up Friday)
Buying a couple other things on Friday to make small changes to the car…
Put overlays on my reflectors today…
Car Mod list updated with costs
I was asked the other day about how much I have spent on my car, I remember doing this before and checked 1 year ago I did a write up on what I have spent figured I would do an update,
Interior
Front Speaker ~ $110
Rear Speakers ~ $90
Clean Sweep Line out controller ~ $210
Street Wires 9 Channel ~ $30
RCA Cables ~ $5
Tape Cover ~ $50
4 Channel Amp ~ $150
Mono Amp ~ $150
Sub ~ $100
New Item
iPod Controller ~ $80
Total: $975 (updated)
Exterior
Old Grill ~ $100
New Grill ~ $80
Eye Lids ~ $20
Paint for Grill and eye Lids ~ $40
Speed Spoiler ~ $240
Paint For spoiler (paid someone else todo it) ~ $130
HID lights ~ $100
Fog Light Bulbs ~ $20
K&N Filter ~ $40
H&R Springs ~ $220
Speed Exhaust ~ $200
Installation of Exhaust ~ $160
New Items
Front Lip ~ $150
Lip Paint (paid someone else to do it) ~ $100
New fogs ~ $20
Painted Emblems ~ $12
Vinyl (this hasn’t happened yet but I purchased the vinyl as long as I can do it the price will stay Pics to follow) ~ $60
Total: $1692 (updated)
I’m going to do a list of car cleaning stuff that I have for my next post.
Decided to paint my emblems, its not exactly what I wanted but I am however happy with the outcome, this is a stepping stone to my two tone project slowly being worked on.
Snow Day… Again, This time Oscar took the photo for me as I had already jumped in the car.
It snowed yesterday and this is now what my car looks like today..
Got some yellow fogs… Felt like a change, we shall see how long for
Fall Car Cleaning steps
So its fall, time to wash the car and get ready for the weather change… I thought I would list my steps because nothing else is going on for me.
Inside
- Vacuum the car
- Clean all plastic with Poor boys Natural Look Dressing
- Spot clean seats and carpet with Tuff Stuff
Outside
- Wash the car
- Clay the car - Mequires Clay
- If any scratches try and take care of them (poor boys swirl remover)
- Polish the car - Pro-Polish from poor boys
- Wax Car Poor boys
- Treat all black plastic with - Back To Black from mequires
Done :) pray that it doesn’t rain…
PoorBoys Products
For the most part all of my car Cleaning products are PoorBoys. last night I added to my product collection “Natural Look Dressing” and let me tell you its perfect… I hate when I see someone else’s car interior looking all shiny and fake looking, now I will say in some cars its okay but most have a nice matte finish which is what the 3 has… and I had been trying to find a good cleaner I came across Tuff Stuff which works great on the textured plastic but overall it just leaves it looking like it did from day one dull and boring, with the Natural Look Dressing it looks like a freshly coated matte plastic, I would advice anyone on purchasing this stuff. I will try and take some pictures tonight of the interior of my car before and after if I can.
