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this friday starts my 10 day break from school. i am planning on putting my rear shaved doors back on my car, but i also wanted to touch up the car also. im repainting the doors, bumper and fenders to fix dents and dings from idiots in parking lots. i guess my question is what do you guys think about painting the mirror bases and the fading strips on either side of the windshield too. any opinions are appreciated. 
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the faded strips, i think that would look great! as for the mirror bases, usually on any other color, its too much, but i think you might be able to pull it off with black.
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i also was thinking about heating up my headlights and painting them to be hightowered. since my rear is all black, including my taillights, these are all i could think of painting next.
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Let me know how the faded strips end up looking. Mine are very faded but I am not sure how they would turn out.
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holy crap that's a nice lookin black SVT! One of these days i'll have a Mirko. 
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well it might not be black in 10 days. i was going to price out the paint that i have on my dash. its WRX blue. looks nice on the dash but, on the whole car.... i dunno. i love the black but it shows everything. everyscratch, every dent, and my driveway is gravel so its always dirty.ill post pictures when i get home bof the dash to see your responses
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Hmmmm, those wheels look familiar.   Looks like FedEx pulled through for you with the centric rings and lug nuts. Hope you like the wheels. 
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actually i was actually told to screw myself. no joke! i was told that the woman was fired and that the parts would be found or money would be sent to me. i think its been a month or so, and nothing. oh well the day after they showed up at my house, i went to summit on my drive home from penn. and bought new ones. i like them alot, but those cracks are bad. school is welding them for free tho  . and they throw weights really easy. the front came off last week. no problems though. well worth the money!thanks tony. you like the car?
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Originally posted by shavedsvt:
actually i was actually told to screw myself. no joke! i was told that the woman was fired and that the parts would be found or money would be sent to me. i think its been a month or so, and nothing. oh well the day after they showed up at my house, i went to summit on my drive home from penn. and bought new ones. i like them alot, but those cracks are bad. school is welding them for free tho . and they throw weights really easy. the front came off last week. no problems though. well worth the money!thanks tony. you like the car?
Whoa! I'm really sorry that happened. I taped the hell out of that bag to get it to stay on the rim. My g/f taped it first and wasn't good enough at all. So I ripped off the mess of tape and did it again myself. I didn't think it was going to budge.  Sorry about that.
That's sweet they are getting fixed for free. It's nice to have hook-ups like that. For me, it wasn't worth putting anymore money into the wheels. $300 for the wheels, $440 tires, $100 centercaps (broken and incorrect ones came with the wheels when I bought them), $30 centric rings. So yeah, you got a deal on them for sure. DO NOT loose those center caps! Discontinued and not available anywhere. I went through hell to get them. I contacted eBayers selling Tantrums asking if I can buy just the caps from them. I had finally found someone willing to do it.
Car looks awesome so far. Keep up the good work. 
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is that why they look like they were hot glued on? i saw that and i was like "man he really didnt want to lose these caps". no problems except the clean up of the tape. one rim had adheisive all around the inside. i took time to clean them so they look spotless. i like them. also dont you like the grills. before i bought the rims i was like "at least ill know how they look". the same mesh, color, and everything, but i painted my rear. thanks for the good buy tony!
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