Wraith's Blue Beastie

Best Grille For This Car?

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elkingyboy said:
Good job man. Seems like tinted tail lights are one of your trademarks eh?
Keep up the good work Stu :cool:
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Thanks. It's not so much the tinting being an end in itself, it's more to do with my preferences for balance between colours on a car.

I like at most 3 colours on a car, main, secondary and highlight. White, grey, black, chrome all count as one and are usually the secondary colour. The highlight should ideally be the opposite of the primary.

The problem is that due to the law there are two colours that you have to have, white and yellow in reg plates.

For this car primary is blue, secondary is black/grey/white and highlight is yellow (luckily it's a good contrast to blue).

Red and amber in the rears means two colours too many so tinting brings them closer to the secondary colour and helps everything move closer to the three colour plan.
 
How fucking annoying is the rattle from the right side of the dash at about 70-80ish lol! They've all been there from when I bought it so it wasn't me lol
 
Lol. Yup. Too annoying to live with, it's fixed now.

Still some rattle from drivers door, passenger A pillar and something near the glovebox but will look into that today.
 
Rattles fuck me right off. Wish I had the time and paitence to sort them all! Don't know where to start in fairness. Whats the trick?

-phone-
 
Behind the dash wedge car-wash sponge between things that might rub (the only time a cheap sponge will he used on my car, thank-you-very-much!).

Get some cheap foam dishcloths, the brightly coloured kind that are dense foam a few mm thick.
Use this to make gaskets for bits that might rattle/squeak and washers for screws. If the screws go through two plastic parts to hold them together try and get one of these washers between the parts as well as at the screw head.

Screw everything together as tight as is safe.

For clip trim that rattles/squeaks a lot can be done with blu-tac.
 
I did this in the Autech when I had the dash out, every single screw/bolt/metal bracket I put squares of a chopped up rubber inner tube and some foam stuff behind/between.

With the doors you want to put something along the ridge on top the door that the door card slides over, a few squares of gaffer tape to build it up was enough I found.
 
Tinted fogs with Lamin-x protective film..



..went on really easily and seems good quality. Now to decide if I like that look and if so if I want to tint the headlight and indicators too..

light smoke..



..or yellow..

 
Thanks. The temptation to fiddle is too great, though!

The stuff just peels off so all I have to lose by experimenting is money.

I think the all yellow is too much but think a band of dark betwen the bumper and bonnet would help the aggressive look I'm going for.

Looking at the lines of the lights maybe dark headlights and yellow indicators could work. Hmmm. Think I'll break out the Gimp one last time tonight.
 
Had a go at re-trimming the doorcards.

Just used cheap PVC fake leather as this is only a dry-run to see what's involved before investing in some real leather or, maybe, some proper car upholstery fabric in black with blue or grey flecks as all the black leather is a bit dull.

Not a great job but will do and now I know the pitfalls the real thing should be spot-on.



 
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