Fai+H777

I'm still undecided. I might have to do the old 'flip a coin in the air and see which side I hope it lands on trick'.

Picked up the car yesterday

Grill already installed, though it was quite hard becuase my one arm is in a cast at the moment... Here are 3 pics of my car with the horrible paint editing job.





I keep thinking option 3 is out of the question then I have another look at it and I'm like "Eh, maybe. If I don't like it I can cut the vinyl back to option 2 and if I don't like option 2 then I can cut the vinyl back to option 1"...

I guess I'll really only know what it will look like once I have it done. My photo-editing skills are sub-par at best.

Clkboi

lol at he paint job but not bad with the arm. Hope it gets better.

Do 3 i like that

astropat

+1

Fai+H777

Says the guy with chromed wheels

ahmadk

come on man , astropat's chrome wheels look sick with white !!

chrislis

have a good laugh pal?

Fai+H777

Not really my thing. It can look good in some cases though

dynomite05

Pat, you planning on keeping the same wheels after all these upgrades?

lowpost

over here chrome is not civic. chrome = DUB/big truck/suv or lowrider. And a lot of jdm/civic guys are running nicer wheels than what I've seen on mbworld.

deception0311

#2 looks good!

Fai+H777

Ah ok. In NZ all the 'ricers' have chromed wheels. Even saw one guy with chromed hub caps with 'chromed hub cap spinners' attached. I almost crashed I was laughing so hard

lowpost

hah hah..yeah..those are not ricers here. Chrome is not bad on the right wheels. Unfortunately there's a lot of bad chrome on bad wheels out here.

dynomite05

sleepyheadzzz

+1111 !!!!!

JHouse

What are you guys talking about?

Seen this? No big add-on full length lip required.

ahmadk

seen this .. it's the AMG bumper

JHouse

And your point is?

Mine is that you can vinyl wrap at a slight outward angle down from the outer most point of our 2004 smiley opening and get a very similar look. Sure it won't be the AMG grill.

The only thing I would change about Fai+H777's install is making the line downward straight (but angled slightly outward) rather than a curve.

ahmadk

it just doesn't look right IMHO...
but again everyone has his own opinion and fai+h777 did it anyways

Black_CLK

Well i think its because they look more boxy and the 320 is just more round. if it was boxy then it would be great to go straight down like that AMG but i mean its whatever people like. haha

JHouse

I get what you mean about the round/boxy. Just hoping I can fool the eye a little with the prominent black space overriding the underlying smiley swirls.

I'm going to experiment. https://www.metrorestyling.com/Produ...e=PREMBLK970RA

After all, it comes right off.

Kevwood

With the stock (non-AMG) bumper, option #1 is the only way to go. You don't have the trailing lines of the AMG bumper to carry the black down the lip. Anything other than #1 in your case looks obvious and out of place - nothing should be obvious, everything should flow. Be one with Zen...

JHouse

Sorry, I resurrected this thread, so the cow is already out of the barn. Here is what he did:

Kevwood

That photoshop reminds me of Nancy Regan in the 80's - "JUST SAY NO!"

JHouse

Fai+H777, How about a big favor and photoshop us a version of your picture with the edges being straight and angling ever so slightly outward?

Sorry, I don't do PhotoChop.

Kevwood

Your photoshop was fine, it showed a very acurate representation of what the car would look like - and that being, well, what was it that Nancy said again...?