Now how you gonna go do me like Dave? hehehehehehehehehe I was getting all excited like for nothing.................
My first Seat, recommendation welcome :)
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I give up!!!
Spraying this grill has been a nightmare... The badge has had problem after problem so i've sanded it back to the starting point twice already. I finally thought i had it perfect. Push it into the grill carefully, first off it wont click into place properly, it will only connect on one side, the otherside can't be pushed down far enough. This would be fine as its secure if it wasn't for the fact that the process of pushing it into place scratched a load of the paint off of the sides...
This resulted in me trying to spray again and retry only with the same result so i resorted to leaving it in the grill with the chips and buying the paint pen/brushes from halfrauds which matched the colours i had used which blended it properly however when in light it looks all bumpy and tacky.
I'm at a loss now as to how other members on this forum pulled this off without the badge chipping when being put back
Spraying this grill has been a nightmare... The badge has had problem after problem so i've sanded it back to the starting point twice already. I finally thought i had it perfect. Push it into the grill carefully, first off it wont click into place properly, it will only connect on one side, the otherside can't be pushed down far enough. This would be fine as its secure if it wasn't for the fact that the process of pushing it into place scratched a load of the paint off of the sides...
This resulted in me trying to spray again and retry only with the same result so i resorted to leaving it in the grill with the chips and buying the paint pen/brushes from halfrauds which matched the colours i had used which blended it properly however when in light it looks all bumpy and tacky.
I'm at a loss now as to how other members on this forum pulled this off without the badge chipping when being put back
I put masking tape on the bits that would chip off, peeled it off when it was in place. Worked quite well.
I thought about that but i thought it'd be too much of a close fit to remove afterwards. Guess not, cheers i'll try that!
Right finally got there, got the back done as well. Thanks to Techie for the tuts and everyone else for the help when i was stressing out lol I may touch it up a bit, i just had to get it on today as i didn't want a hole in my boot over night lol.
It wasn't noticeable before but now that i've taken "Ibiza" off i've realized how off center my auto emocion sticker is... So may need to re do that as well lol
It wasn't noticeable before but now that i've taken "Ibiza" off i've realized how off center my auto emocion sticker is... So may need to re do that as well lol
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Cheers Jason. The strife i went through for this makes it worth while. Want some decent white bulbs now, but don't know where to start other than HID's which are illegal as far as my understanding goes, and LED's but i tried some of them and they were horrible... Perhaps the spoiler, and Still need to get my windows tinted...
the red colour base on the logo looks fine on black car but i dont prefer it on red emocion such as mine.
I've now been through 4 sets of led side lights lol Finally found some that are exactly what i wanted. Bough the first set from Halfords and they were bright but just not bright enough, not crisp enough. So i tried some blue LED's from eBay which were quite frankly pathetic. Got through two sets of these, different types and they both just looked like a cheap christmas light.
So after ages and ages of searching online and on here i found a thread about LED's and ended up finding some of this bad boys: 501 Long 19 LED Extreme Power 2W 360 Degree White http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/501-Long-19-LED-Extreme-Power-2W-360-degree.html
They're a bit bigger than the other LED's i've had. Easy to fit. No lights on the dash etc.
At first when i fitted them they looked a bit weird as there are multiple points of light instead of the one. But they're bright as hell even in the day time. The photo's i've got don't do any justice at all. Particularly at night, i think they're brighter than my main lights lmao
Really can't tell how bright they are in the day here with this picture:
and poor night time pic but you get the idea. Should have left one of the oldies in to compare.
Now i want to get pure white main bulbs. Bought some that were supposed to be from halfrauds but they're still orangey which i really don't want. Anyone have any recommendations?
So after ages and ages of searching online and on here i found a thread about LED's and ended up finding some of this bad boys: 501 Long 19 LED Extreme Power 2W 360 Degree White http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/501-Long-19-LED-Extreme-Power-2W-360-degree.html
They're a bit bigger than the other LED's i've had. Easy to fit. No lights on the dash etc.
At first when i fitted them they looked a bit weird as there are multiple points of light instead of the one. But they're bright as hell even in the day time. The photo's i've got don't do any justice at all. Particularly at night, i think they're brighter than my main lights lmao
Really can't tell how bright they are in the day here with this picture:
and poor night time pic but you get the idea. Should have left one of the oldies in to compare.
Now i want to get pure white main bulbs. Bought some that were supposed to be from halfrauds but they're still orangey which i really don't want. Anyone have any recommendations?
haha yeah they are brighter than i thought they would be. Just checked them out with all lights on and my main beams now look ridiculous lol despite being "laser white" they're blatantly not. I really want to get some crisp white lights to go with these as it looks stupid now lol
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