Matt HKD

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Well, here are the first pictures I've taken since doing my black vinyl roof. All in all, I'm pretty happy with how it came out.








Also, some people have said that you can't do the xm antenna in vinyl, and that you have to either paint it or buy a new one. I did mine in vinyl, and while it's not 100% perfect, you have to be pretty close to notice the flaws, which shouldn't really be a problem because it's in the middle of the roof. Here's a close-up for reference. I'll bet if I redid it, I could do a much better job.





Thanks for looking!

Red Voodoo

You're right! You did do a pretty good job on the pimple. Roof looks good!

BigPZ

The antenna looks decent and the roof looks great!!! Nice mods!!

stvtec

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Can't wait to do this to my WDP. It looks great dude. I saw it on another WDP and the one thing that bothered me is that I could see white right at the back edge of the roof, where the sheetmetal turns down and the rear window is installed. I'm going to watch out for that when I do mine. I don't see any white there on yours.

corumz

Looks good, I was thinking about doing this to my AM.

CLtotheTL32

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Looks great! I have the vinyl sitting my room right now and I'm just waiting for a day with nice weather to knock it out.

AcRightLINY

I really love this mod and it looks amazing on your car but for whatever reason I don't think I'll ever get around to doing it on my car... Odd I know

omnuts

came out nice, good looking pics..yea I xm is doable, just some work, that's how I did mine

VQPower37

roof looks great

guitarplayer16

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Nice vinyl roof!

Photography looks amazing =)

Timb227

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Looks good! Love the WDP with the black roof.


LOL that was prob me, seeing as you're in Jersey. I need to redo it. I didn't take any of the rails off and I had a roof spoiler on at the time.

06tl4life

very nice, want to do mine soon. I think your grill is starting to chip though :P lol

Matt HKD

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Yea, I was trying to be careful about that. All you need to do is cut it so you have a bit of extra (I did mine a little past the gap to the window, but could have used even a little bit more), then use a heat gun to make it flexible and bend the vinyl to go down into that crack. That part was pretty easy, you just have to be thinking about that before you start cutting :P.

Do it, I think it would look pretty sick. My buddy and I did his PMM a few days earlier and it came out nice. It's very subtle because PMM is a little darker, but on yours I think it would pop out a little bit more.

lol probably because it's a pain. make sure you have a friend to help you when you decide to do it tho.

thanks man, I got my nikon d3000 for christmas, and I'm just starting out at this photography thing. :P

Thanks, when you redo yours make sure you take off the xm, side rails and the little v clips that hold the rails to the roof. It makes everything so much easier, and those rails are not that hard to take off.

On that note, I was thinking about adding a black ebay window spoiler, but I'm not sure. What do you guys think?


lol yeahhhh it is. I need to redo it with plastidip this time. I want to clear my headlights and I've been trying to wait until I do that so I can redo my grill at the same time, but I don't know how much longer it can wait lol.


Thanks for all the positive feedback guys!

stvtec

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lol maybe it was you, I posted up in the "sightings" thread in the NY/NJ section but no reply. This was on 287 S a few weeks back.

Timb227

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Do a black roof spoiler, it will finish it off nice!

Were we crusing together for a little while? I got on at exit 10 and off at Rt. 1.

stvtec

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Haha yeah that was you then. Now I notice the exhaust in your avatar, that was definitely you. I noticed the azine sticker too so I was surprised there was no reply in the sightings thread.

I saw another modded WDP that day around Hoboken.

Your car looks good but definitely redo that roof, the white strip really stands out.

quanaman

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black roofs make me jealous of WDP

ILLustriousUA6

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looking good man.. i hope to see it one day, lol

Matt HKD

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for sure man lol. I'm graduating in june, not sure where I'm gonna be after, so we have to get an irvine shoot together before then!

princelybug

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Roof=

Wheels=

jwr0ng626

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nice! was a beach to get on nicely..

ur XM job looks wayyyy better than mine lol ill post pics later

Steven Bell

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Well done, Matt. Be proud-you did a good job!




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renedcruz

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Looks great.

ed99

Great job on the vinyl. Curious if anyone here would vinyl their entire TL. I wonder how it would look. By the way, the Mag Blue TE's are sick!!

v|nsan|ty

Black roof looks great. The wheels are even more drool.

Matt HKD

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thanks guys, I appreciate the feedback.

it was kinda buried in my other post, but what do you think about adding a black roof spoiler (probably the ebay one)?

tinteduptls

nice job on the antenna, i attempted to do that my self but failed so i left it silver on mine lol

jwr0ng626

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a black roof spoiler would look dope!

are u going to the socal Hat meet?

Matt HKD

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Yea the xm was a pain at first, but with patience heat and stretch it's doable.

Nah can't make it to the hat meet, gonna be in Vegas that weekend :p.

Souljah

Eyegasm!

jwr0ng626

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yea, i'll prob redo mine when i'm really bored and don't have anything to do haha

and :thumbsdow to not making it to the Hat!

Comptechtl2367

The roof and car looks sick.
Not sure i understand this new fad of odd colored wheels but the wheels themselves are sick!

Matt HKD

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thanks man, to each his own right? I like them because they're different but not too flashy.

Also just started installing my EDFC this weekend, just waiting on a few set screws from tein to finish it up. Can't wait to try that out.

excuse the iphone pic.

CLtotheTL32

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Awesome! How difficult is the install for the EDFC? I've heard it's a bitch.

Matt HKD

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It honestly wasn't THAT terrible. I have taken the dash apart a few times before so I already knew what I was doing for that, so that was pretty easy. There was a pretty convenient place to run the wires through the firewall near the pedals, and it was super easy to run the wires to the rear seats under the carpet. I just drilled a few holes in the sides of that center box to run the wires to the controller without even taking it out, so that was pretty simple.

the only hard part for me was wiring the controller into the electric system. I thought I could tap it into another fuse from behind, but I ended up just using one of these add-a-circuit things to the fuse box inside. If I had known I was gonna do that beforehand, it woulda been much simpler. My dad is pretty good at this kind of thing, so his help made it much easier.

aysertypes

good job

Steven Bell

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Two words.....

Roof


Spoiler






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Bearcat94

Those wheels =

I need those and that roof. I'll PM my address so you know where to ship them.


:jealous:

KieranM37

oh the naughty things I would do to your car.. beautiful from every angle

Ricky Pounds

WOW, love the look! Add on the Type S tail lights and a roof spoiler, ahhhhhhh!