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Tater what kind of double side tape did you use? ------------------ '99 SE Zetec ATX Medium Steel Blue. Tint, Mesh Grill, Badgeless, Sidemarkers, pre '98 sail panels Pollo_loco69@hotmail.com
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Lots of sweet cars don't have any sort of door ding guards on them (Porsche 996 for example). I think the idea is just to take really good care to park wisely.  T.
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Originally posted by tater:
i did one side of mine too, and i loved it until i got to the second one. there was a clear outline of rough crap around it. tried to get it off with no success. mine is a 95. go for it! if you have to put them back on, double sided tape worked great for me... Yeah I've seen that crusty crap, IMO any pre 97 car would risk paint problems. If anyone is considering this(pre 97)try and examine the paint around the guards VERY closely to check for defects. A couple other things, the paint seems to be MUCH MORE scratch resistent on earlier contiques. Maybe more clear coat, not sure. Also, The earlier cars use a different type of adhesive than 98+ cars do, because of the different style moldings. Much easier on your fingers than the thin grey stuff on 98+ tours. 96 I know for sure has a thick white foam like typical 3M double sided foam tape, much thicker than the newer type. Brad
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Originally posted by jada:
don't you guys understand what they are there for? they're "ding guards". if somebody opens their door and hits your car, it'll hit the ding guard instead of your door, which are much less costly than hitting the door itself. Ryan Wood nailed it. When I look at my other vehicle I bought new 2 years ago, the door ding gaurds do little. It has dings well above and below the plastic, and it's a 4x4 truck. So, you might as well make it look cleaner by removing the gaurds.
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Originally posted by rainshdw:
did mine too over a year ago with no problems. I used 20 lb fishing line to remove mine, it only took about 2 hours from start to finish. Use Meguires and Zaino products to clean it up with absolutly no clear coat problems...I had the car for over a year before I tried this mod. I was VERY nervous about doing it because I didn't want to screw up the paint but it was really no big deal. ANYWAY...here are some pics...
Sharp car, but I didn't even notice the ding gaurds were removed. The car was to clean and those TSW Revo wheels are so sharp on a tour that I didn't even notice.  Nice job on that hard to own black paint... ------------------ Brad Noon '99 SE MTX, finally supercharged!!!!  http://www.bnmotorsports.com
Brad Noon '99 SE MTX 3 point oh my God H.O. 179HP/178TQ BNMotorsports Floormats, powder coating, TB optimizing, Gutted cats, etc BNMotorsports is now the preferred distributor of Contour/SVT/Mystique Indiglo style gauges!!!bnmotorsports@msn.com
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rainshdw looks great! What size wheels and what springs are you running? Your car has a really nice stance to it.
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'98 Silver Frost SVT ?? #3383 of 6535 built ?? Mille Miglia Spiders ?? Yokohama Paradas ?? Hoodliner Removed ?? Tinted & Pinstripped ?? Knauberized ?? Silver Painted Rear Valance
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funny I just typed this answer in another forum....here
I was in Japan trying to figure out what kind of rims to put on...only a few manufactures made rims that fit 4 on 4 1/4 at the time and TSW was the only ones I liked. To tell you the truth I almost didn't pick those until my wife said they looked kinda cool...then I used a imaging program and placed it on my desktop for a few months. I had to have them. I was also not going to get chrome, that's the wife's doing also...guess that's why she's my wife. I'm really glad I got the chrome ones now too.
The sizes are 17"x7 and 215 45ZR17's Tried 225's but it felt weird to steer...like it wanted to track funny. Not too much rubbing with those or the ones I have now. I did have a small problem with the rear ones. It turned out to be a small metal flange in the wheel well...I just grinded it down and now I have zero rub. oh and I put an Eibach Pro-kit on it.
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rainshdw
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You don't like it???...GTFO!
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more pics here...  enjoy  ------------------ 98 Black SVT "The black car" rainshdw
98EO SVT, Black #30
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