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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:27 pm 
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well you may have noticed in my gallary or when ever i have posted my car up for any reason there was some s**t on it :) then again you may not have noticed due to bad photo quality, good old camera phone, did my car more justice than it deserved, basically i tried to respray my bonnet one day as there was a bit of fading, WHAT A MISTAKE! lost all the glossy shine and all :( thought it would cost about $1000 or so to fix, tried fixing it myself with clear coat etc, actually made it worse! so i just gave up on it, also, something you wouldnt have noticed as i made sure i never took photos of it so ya cant see it :) but 2 months after i got the car i dinted the right side of my car, the whole gaurd was dinted...

ANYWAYS! enough about that! back to the solution! found a really cheap spray painter, and bought a second hand right side gaurd, paid $120 for the gaurd, and the spray painter charged me $200 to spray the second hand gaurd and bonnet for me :) i wasnt sure on the quality of the job cause it was so cheap! but it came out mint! i left him my fuel cap and the bonnet and the second hand gaurd so he could match the colours :)

5 days of driving with a white bonnet i picked up the beautifully sprayed bonnet and guard, spent 2 hours last night removing the original f**k out :) and half an hour putting the new one on :) heres a pic with it off :) and with the white bonnet, when i get a digital camera, i'll post up a pic of the bonnet so you can see the great job :) So all up $320 to fix it all, glad i did it myself, probably saved $1500 :)

Oh and while i was pulling it apart, there was a tube connected to the end of the battery... dunno wtf that was for LOL! cause it fell off :) Didnt look important anyways :)

 

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:53 pm 
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hopefully you forgot to put those blue leds back on your bonnet couse they are just yuk!
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:55 pm 
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actually the guy broke them as he took them off :( but i want them back! but i dunno... maybe not

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:25 pm 
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Cough *riceboy* Cough
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:26 pm 
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i think ur new white bonnet is not a el bonnet its shaped like a ef at the nose

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:28 pm 
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nar nar nar, that was the TEMPORARY bonnet :) i only had that for 5 days, like i'd wanna keep a white bonnet LOL! yeah it is an EF bonnet :) my EL one is back on and all shiny red :)

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 3:30 pm 
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lol Neo Nick, cmon i aint no ricer, i dont have flames on the side of my car and neons under neith, or a tip the size of my head! and when it changes gears it doesnt go grrrrrr tsssssss grrrrrr tsssssss grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr tsssssssss LOL!

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:02 pm 
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That tube you spoke about with your battery sounds like your battery breather vent. I suggest you should find it and put it back in

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:04 pm 
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i knew someone would say that! and i KNEW that was what it was for, but it was dark, and i was like nar f**k that

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:07 pm 
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lol. oh well. your battery should vent/breathe properly. maybe.

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 4:35 pm 
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im sure it'll be fine without it, i might try putting it back in through the battary side of it

 

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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:31 pm 
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lol Neo Nick, cmon i aint no ricer, i dont have flames on the side of my car and neons under neith, or a tip the size of my head! and when it changes gears it doesnt go grrrrrr tsssssss grrrrrr tsssssss grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr tsssssssss LOL!


mate if you had a turbo on that falcon i sure as hell wouldn't be calling you a ricer no matter what you do, but as it is yes you are a ricer - those bonnet lights!?!
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:36 pm 
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why no pics of the finnished job?
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Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:41 pm 
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i reckon the white bonnet looks the s**t. should of kept it

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:15 am 
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haha yeah i think if i cleaned the white bonnet up a bit, and it actually fitted, it would have looked a bit mean, but seeing as it wasnt mine, and i wasnt going to mod anything to accommadate for it just for 5 days, well it didnt look that great cause it was sticking up about an inch on the sides... as for the ricer stuff, OK FINE IM A RICER HAHAHAH! i will get pics as soon as i get my camera, shouldnt be too much longer, but would you all agree, $200 for respraying two different panels is pretty good aye?

 

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