Lighting and trim reinstall
I started with reinstalling the refreshed wipers, hood vent, and new windshield cowl. SEM trim paint is ever so slightly satin, but if you want you can apply a matte clear for additional flatness. I think it looks perfect.
Don't mind my dog's toys they're everywhere.
The csl parts were still at the body shop, but they were able to turn around the grills promptly. These are genuine grills professionally sprayed gloss black. This is the same as what IND does.
I know the chrome grill purists will rage, but this is the way to go on lsb imo. Easily changeable anyways. Also had some new grill badges laying around but it looks like they're knockoffs.
In they go along with new side markers. What a difference.
Next up the headlights and new corner lights, and fogs. The fog lights were tough, as the price for new is ridiculously expensive. I first tried to sand and polish the existing ones without luck. I ended up taking the plunge on "TYC" brand.
The TYC(right) lenses look great, no discernible difference on look, but they do weigh less.
Because it is a hassle finding these, and they get beat up down there, I decided to have them PPF'd. Perfect timing as I took my girls Alfa Romeo in for tint and they owed me a favor.
PPF is so good now days you can't tell it's there. Fitment was perfect, and the refreshed trim went in place without issue. Nothing loose.
Headlights as shown in the previous post, looking mint with new corner lights.
Tackled the tail lights next. Early models require some mild effort to install LED tails properly. There's nothing worse than seeing those aftermarket LED tail lights with the black outline. The process is really quite simple.
First acquire a newer version LCM. Unfortunately this does add a useless auto headlight switch state without the proper windshield.
Then a couple easily sourced adapters to mount the early model harnesses to the led lights.
Then just follow the coding process(also easily sourced) to rewrite the new LCM using PA soft 1.4. Actual process took like 2mins.
Now enjoy your new genuine taillights with no dash lights or flickers, and go get a smog.
Inner lights will come with that whole csl trunk thing.
Will grab some proper pics soon. Gas cap and reflectors were still at the shop.
Soon...
I started with reinstalling the refreshed wipers, hood vent, and new windshield cowl. SEM trim paint is ever so slightly satin, but if you want you can apply a matte clear for additional flatness. I think it looks perfect.
Don't mind my dog's toys they're everywhere.
The csl parts were still at the body shop, but they were able to turn around the grills promptly. These are genuine grills professionally sprayed gloss black. This is the same as what IND does.
I know the chrome grill purists will rage, but this is the way to go on lsb imo. Easily changeable anyways. Also had some new grill badges laying around but it looks like they're knockoffs.
In they go along with new side markers. What a difference.
Next up the headlights and new corner lights, and fogs. The fog lights were tough, as the price for new is ridiculously expensive. I first tried to sand and polish the existing ones without luck. I ended up taking the plunge on "TYC" brand.
The TYC(right) lenses look great, no discernible difference on look, but they do weigh less.
Because it is a hassle finding these, and they get beat up down there, I decided to have them PPF'd. Perfect timing as I took my girls Alfa Romeo in for tint and they owed me a favor.
PPF is so good now days you can't tell it's there. Fitment was perfect, and the refreshed trim went in place without issue. Nothing loose.
Headlights as shown in the previous post, looking mint with new corner lights.
Tackled the tail lights next. Early models require some mild effort to install LED tails properly. There's nothing worse than seeing those aftermarket LED tail lights with the black outline. The process is really quite simple.
First acquire a newer version LCM. Unfortunately this does add a useless auto headlight switch state without the proper windshield.
Then a couple easily sourced adapters to mount the early model harnesses to the led lights.
Then just follow the coding process(also easily sourced) to rewrite the new LCM using PA soft 1.4. Actual process took like 2mins.
Now enjoy your new genuine taillights with no dash lights or flickers, and go get a smog.
Inner lights will come with that whole csl trunk thing.
Will grab some proper pics soon. Gas cap and reflectors were still at the shop.
Soon...
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