.. come to find out that I gotta drive it during the winter, I started getting it prepared for the long...harsh... sigh* anyways, heres some pics of me getting my baby ready. I also tried installing my KAIXEN 6000ks yesterday with absolute no luck getting the bulb back in.. so I decided to take off the entire front bumper assembly today to take out the headlight casings to figure out what exactly I was doing wrong. Well, I figured out what I was doing wrong.. so stupid.. lol and decided to install my 6000k HID fog kit + chrome turn signal bulbs while my bumper was off as well.

Finished pics will be up soon.. and look what happened to my K&N filter!! ..it freaking melted! ..wtf is up with stuff melting on my ride. For those of you that have seen my rear bumper + lip.. ya'll can understand my bad string of luck.

 

It's unfortunate what happened to your filter. But, it looks like an AEM, not K&N?

 

looks like the filter is getting smashed into something when the bumper is on.
What was the solution on the bulb install- for others who read this

 

sorry for what happened to your filter, but that is a AEM and not a K&N filter bruh.

 

a good thing for winter prep is Deep Creep- our friend seafoam in a spray can-
use on door locks and hinges- lube the throttle cables and springs-

Use Silicone spray on rubber trim and wax any paint that touches a rubber seal~ dont forget the sunroof!!
of course wax the entire car yadayada

At least you can get low temp windshield cleaner- out here we only get 32, and there is ice on the glass already!! Have to use the spray can deicer or wait on the defrost

Who has a good recipe-safe for paint- to make low temp windshield cleaner??

 

Damn dude. I gotta get ready for this too.

 

Plain old alcohol added to your voc compliant stuff will make it low temp variety. You might be able to buy the low temp stuff above a certain altitude. I recall one of the big parts retailers being sued for selling the high altitude stuff at all their locations.

 

AEM .. K&N ..they both work/look the same to me. :P

Ugh.. blew out one of my HID fogs by rubbing it against the metal and leaving a scratch on it. It went on..then bam, there it blows. Got my KAIXENs in though, happy about that. All I have left too do it raise the fronts a tad. :/

 

aem filters are made by K&N, atleast the last aem intake i had said aem and k&N on the filter.

your filter isnt melted, you smashed it somehow.

 

i highly doubt that. no way possible.

 

Ill- make sure to run the new HID bulbs- the kaixens, as much as possible to get 100 hours use on them
Thats the approximate burn in time- then the color will stabilize and get a little brighter too!

 

note to all- wear rubber/latex gloves when handling new bulbs- or wipe the bulb with rubbing alcohol soaked onto a paper towel if you touch it!!!

Oils from you finger get on the bulb- the bulb gets hot- the oil burns onto the glass and causes a hot spot----
say goodbye light at an early age

 

Oh.. sweet, thanks for the tip! ..didn't know that. Though, I did buy these 6000ks used, so I'm sure they have been used for about that, if not more.

 

I know rubbing alcohol works to lower the freeze point of the cleaner-
the question is WHO has done it and how much?? 10%? and not hurt the paint?

 

Nice job on the HID lowbeam install, they look great.

yeah, ur filter is not melted, it deforms when something presses against it with minimal forces. it happened to me when I was replacing my AEM V2 filter with an AEM dry flow, i grasp the filter and it sort of caved in.

 

Thanks! ..But there rly isn't anything I can think of that would be hitting against the filter like that. Other than the foglight housing+harnesses, there isn't anything in that space where our intake resonator used to be.

 

See.. at least someone knows what I'm talking about. I remember reading somewhere that they are just re-branded K&N filters.

Ionno.. unless a small gremlin went up into the intake bay and smashed it, not sure how that happened.

 

its true, all aem intake's used to come with K&N filter's, now they come with aem filter's, made by K&N.

searching around online, a few years back will tell the story as well. i probably have old super street magazines that show the old aem intake ad's with K&N filter's on them.

 

lol at the bumpesless and lightless pics, thats how my car looked for the past few days!!

 

winter mode is lookin hot...

maybe i'll show off my winter mode tooo.. lol.

 

Everyone's winter mode is better than mine.

 

lols.. you guys crack me up.

Here's one last shot for shits n' giggles (unedited).. and Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! ^^,

 

baller.

 

i would have helped you out if u asked, told u puting in the hids are easier with the headlights off. any way nice pics.

my winter mode is my summer mode. ill just plow my streets when the snow get high.lol

 

loving plowing the road especially with front lip.

good times...

 

thats not your house is it? holy crap

 

lols.. nah, I wish.

 

Some truth there. origonally they came with true K&N's. then later they used K&N filters made for AEM using AEM caps. now all AEM kits come with their DryFlow filters. The dry flows are annoying to clean and i don't fully trust them to be honest. I replaced my last dryflow with a K&N and was perfectly happy with that.