Hi Acuraziners,

I am not on the boards as much as I have been in the past years. My passion for modifying cars died in one year of having the car. My car got vandalized by high school kids and I have a super long key mark on from the rear towards the front fender. I rather not post pictures of it, I don't want to scare any of you. I have yet to paint my entire car because I am a student with plenty of loans out for tuition . Besides the fact, I decided to make a bold move by replacing my front bumper with an '05 bumper off MY AMAZING BOYFRIEND, TIMOTHY's OLD TL. Although they are different shades of Anthracite, I rather have that than a crack bumper. ( a tire flew on the freeway, hitting and chipping about 30-40% of the paint off.. my front aspec lip lives!! )

Being around the Socali acurazine boys, I learn to love the clear out and blacked out headlights. So I attempted to join the group with the assistance of my boyfriend (ib18c1). We worked on it from 12-5ish because there were problems with bulbs and the outside of the headlights. We worked on it and here is now we manage to do it.

More pictures of final product will be up soon ! Btw. i refuse to drop my car.. i like my monster truck status on my TL because i SCRAP even with stock suspension. Don't hate, i really like going fast on speed bumps. It's not a female driver's perceptive because I see boys do it all the time!!!


February 15, 2008 ( newly installed aspec)


February 20, 2008, The TIRE of Death.. there has been more damage from the wear and tear of driving.


Pre- Operation

Switching out the bumpers ( i didn't erase my lic. plate number)


Open it up!


Had to spray paint the light housing, semi-flat black.


Sealed the headlight back together and now polishing it.

final product coming soon.. when i finish de-hazing it.

 

 

Fixed

 

Yeah I agree with you.. I rather have mismatched bumpers then a cracked one and I can almost bet that the paint mismatch is going to be noticed by no one else besides you guys because we're all anal and its our cars. I can almost bet that no one else will even catch it.

Smart moves to do the headlights while you had the bumper off. Waiting for post op pics!

 

i see someone has an autozone battery....built to last....DURALAST! not....

 

so much for a kudos tommy!

i am going to fix the haze on my headlights tomorrow with tim. maybe u can give us pointers.

i also want to see ur is-f again.

 

Corona were abouts I'm from Corona too by 15Fwy and EL Ceritto Rd.

 

Plastix + DA + 7006 PAD = NICE HEAD LIGHTS!

Don't get me wrong...i like your battery....starts your car well

 

Its good to see that you are back! If you want to get those key marks looking a bit better, you can follow this DIY:

Clean the area with rubbing alcohol
Apply touchup paint slowly (over multiple days) in layers until it is past the surface of the surrounding good paint
Take some 2000 grit sandpaper and sand the area lightly until the touchup paint is level
Follow up with 3000 grit sandpaper
Take some Medium Cut compound and clean up the area
Take some Light Cut compound and clean up the area
Wipe with rubbing alcohol once again to make sure all the scratches are gone.
Polish as necessary.

 

Tim had 2 bumpers...right?

 

i have to try it. i might have to do all the prep work so i can get a deal on a paint job. thanks for sharing

&& @ Scott

Yeah Tim has two bumpers, the base and the tl-s. i went to pick it up at Teddy's house and then he helped wash my car.

 

Everyone these pictures are fake and Tim did all the work!

HAHAHA jk....

Props Malessa :P I had Josh do mine hahaha

 

she is soooo posing for the pics... ROFl...

Tim... where are the real pictures... I kid I kid M

 

Looking good.

 

for a girl who works on her car!! and ur a pretty cute girl too!! I wish I could get my gf to work on her car.. she makes me do everything haha..

 

Errrrm. Post blackout pics? Plz? Kthxbye.


P.S.

LOL at dudes hitting on Tim's girl.

 

WTG

lol - you look so tiny inside that bumper!

 

No, those were actual pictures of what I did. Tim took off the bumper for me. I swapped the grill to the new one and I help seal the headlights. SEE, I did help!

AL , what have I ever done to you!? I try to be nice. I can't help that i POSE when i am working. That's HOW CALI does it. JK. best wishes with the kid btw.

THANK U sir.

HAHA. Well a small percentage of girls are on car forum and a smaller percentage actually do their own stuff. I knew I wouldn't be able to do it without assistance. Some girls admire your abilities and mechanical skills. and OF COURSE messing up clothes is unnecessarily.

HEY you sound like me. KTHXBYE. That's cute.

Pictures will be up tomorrow.

Yeah i know. I think it's suppose to be that way though. I fit inside the car.. NOW, it would be weird if I was BIGGER than the bumper.

thanks for the support nonetheless

ib18c1 (tim) will post the pictures soon.. I HOPE.. I will do a better shot of it in the day light. It's still a bit hazy after wet sanding and all.. we'll see the results in a few days. If not we will have to open it up again and sand the inside.

 

nice lights !!!!!

 

LOL I hope you didn't mean my stocks

Well.......it should look like this.. but i have tl-s tails and i am not lower, visors, umm no tl-s front.

 

hahaha sweeeetnesssss!!!!!

 

to u for working on ur own car!

Thats good keep up the hard work!

 

Here you guys go. It's a noticeable difference but I DGAF !


Anthracrite-ISH couple. Yeah.. he has the better car FOR now. Not until I get my Mercedes after college <3

 

hi little seester
for working on your own car, you gangster lady!!!

you can work on my car next, just dont get smashed underneath itt!!

If it makes you feel better, Tims car is ugly

Oh yeah you can go to sleep now since i commented

 

used my method....

anywho.

 

Thank u eric.

TIM SAYS, " HEAT GUN > BLOW DRYER"

 

Anthracite hot

Headlights hot

4x4 status...not so hot

sorry it had to be said

 

^ same shit.. i bet i can do headlights faster than he can.

tim is and he'll agree with me.

 

I know but I really cant deal with driving a lower car. I was practicing stick shift and i scrap the bottom of tim's car. BTW, i live in Riverside County and there are a lot of "BROS" with lifted trucks. It's only natural to be one of them. YAY for off roading by the river brah.

 

aaw how cute a am-cali couple....

 

bahahaha.. wth

 

AM ftw!

 

haha I had a lifted truck before I got my TL. It takes some getting used to driving slow everywhere thats for sure. I do miss being able to drive off curbs and fly over speedbumps lol

 

and where are my stock headlights...

 

lol mike you still lookin for stock headlights

 

TL couple rofl


Take your car offroading! 4X4height ftw! =P

 

merc benz are over rated... tim's car is hott

 

he'll still have the better car

..unless you have 3 very important letters on the back of that benz!

 

or 6 letter word that Start with a Brabus
or 8 letter word that Start with a Lorinser

 

+1 most benzes are meh

You are gonna have to get one sick ass benz for it to be nicer than Tims car. Heck your car as it sits right now is better looking than most benzes.