Official 'What did you do to your car today?' Thread

[Verzerrung]

I didn't do anything as of yet, but I did purchase a few SMD red LED chip lights. I'm going to desolder the SMD LED's in the steering wheel components (answer call, decline, volume, cruise control and menu buttons, etc,). This way I can get rid of the white and make the wheel stand out with a nice red color to set it apart. I'm working with extras from the extra steering wheel I got from the junk yard. Here is the lights. It will be a few days to a week before I get them delivered.

 

[webby]

Wow I’m interested to see how this works out for you

 

[Verzerrung]

Wow I’m interested to see how this works out for you

I figured I have not really seen anyone do it and it is very different from anything I have tried, but I do think I would like the look. I bought 15 pieces from Lighthouse LED's. I'll keep you posted!

 

[r18-power]

Washed the car today, I got the wheels back from powdercoating yesterday afternoon. I couldn’t be happier with this new color!

 

[webby]

Cmon no side shot????

 

[bootyluvr]

Cmon no side shot????

I said the same thing and @stilletto replied "Check IG".. I said GTFO with that bs

 

[webby]

What’s Instagram

 

[snahfu]

Old ballast failed on me so I bought a hylux ballast. These came with extra ground wires, something that my previous ballast did not have.

Just curious if these are safe grounding point's for them. One side didn't turn on as normal until the next start up so getting a little worried. I believe I had to share a ground with the chassis / engine mount on the right side.

 

[fahnix]

Left one, ya. Right one, no. I wouldn't consider the rad support brace to be frame therefore I wouldn't ground there.

 

[webby]

Run the right side to the neg battery post. Simple and close to that ballast.

 

[Verzerrung]

Alright, so it has been a pain finding LED's and trial and error getting the right size. They are not perfect since these act as a diode and the current needs to flow through the LED's. I got 4 out of 7 to light up. The ones not lit up need to be rotated 180. Here is a little teaser for the time being, full shot coming soon!

 

[webby]

Crazy stuff. I feel like no one is going to attempt this after you

 

[Verzerrung]

Alright, here we go! I think it looks pretty good! Happy with the result.

 

[webby]

truly impressed. Excellent work!

 

[ethlar]

damn, surface mount soldering was never something i was up for doing, looks good!

 

[fahnix]

That looks awesome. I feel like that should have been done from the factory after seeing that. Especially on the Si. That would have matched the rest of the red accenting so well. I love unique mods like this. Great job.

 

[Dad]

Washed the car today, I got the wheels back from powdercoating yesterday afternoon. I couldn’t be happier with this new color!

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Holy cow!!

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If I wasnt so afraid of wiring and soldering, id try this!!

 

[fahnix]

Finally got a wash in. Carried out 5 - 5 gallon buckets of water in the process. Don't think I'll be doing that again. Was nice to get in a hand wash though. Been a while.

 

[Dad]

 

[ethlar]

five bucket wash method? i know the 2 bucket and the 3 bucket methods, whats the 5?