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or replace the door mouldings with the colour matching ones... nicer looking without compromising car park protection
I'm amazed most of the BJs in oz didn't get colour matching door mouldings, while we here in the US did
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I don't know about "most ones in oz"
I have never seen one that was factory fitted with coded ones yet I personally prefer none. But if u are paranoid then paint them. But then again if you are paranoid you would already be doing what I do and park as far away from other people as possible or get your missus to drive her car to the shops
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I personaly like the side mouldings, keeps it looking like a realy tall door on a small car, working for Mercedes I see long and tall doors everyday, gets quite dull but thats me personaly. I like to see lines not just a plain panell
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Got my wheel alignment done today, Handles like a gokart
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on the 3, the door panels are just all flat... so taking off the door mouldings just makes it look dull/plain for me, I wouldn't do it because of car park damages... mine (which are painted from the factory ) has seen its fair share of bumps... they have protected my doors a lot!
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How much did the wheel aligment cost for back and frontt?
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They were going to charge me $85 all up but because I was patient they charged me $65
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ahh okiess at like bob jane or just some small local shop? rang pedders todayy to get one done, they wanted $145 :O :O :O!
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Just bought a big roll of Carbon Fibre Vinyl wrap of eBay, gunna be doing some Trim pieces with it and maybe some other things depending on what it is
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Got my big roll of carbon fibre vinyl the other day, so started to do some trim pieces and chose to start with the stereo shroud.
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looks good!
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Much better than my first attempt!
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how does this vinyl stuff work? dead set that looks perfect!
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Basicly I cut a big rectangle piece out and stretched, pressed and used a heat gun around the corners and more complex shapes used a small razor blade to trim off the excess and to make the holes for ac vents cd player etc, the trick is for those is to use the heat gun and press the vinyl through with out stretching it then cut like cross patterns not to close to the edges and fold the rest in and then trim the excess off
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Looks good man, any pics of it in the car?
The SP20 looks awesome with the black MPS rims btw
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Did you use any spray glue along with the vinyl? Mine started pealing when it got warm, as I stuck it straight onto the plastic.
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