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Old 09-28-2018, 09:33 AM
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I thought the same, those are some expensive winter setups loo but I love CHRs


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Wrap my door handle. Previous owner must of wore lots of rings lol

Before:

During:

After:


It's not perfect but any means but gets rid of the eye sore.


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Wait. How did you get it off the door
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Top effort! I've gotta take my cards off to fix the armrest so might do this at the same time....

What materials did you use?
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I had to take off my door panel off again because the cable came off from my door carrier so I decided to tackle it this time.

You have to take off the panel in order to remove it.

Pop off the decorative cover and two bolt and nuts holding it to the panel. Have to hold the nut from the other side.

I used matte vinyl wrap I bought from Amazon by a vendor called vivid wraps?


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I was under the impression that the handles were non removable. That’s sweet. Next project for sure!
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On the 4.8iS new CVC and front end bushings!!
Air system now working although I still can't adjust ride height till the resistor comes in..

On the 4.4i polished headlights (4 hours) yesterday.

Brother and sister photo op and they both need a bath.

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replaced my lcd in my monitor , bit fiddly but easy to do
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Wrap my door handle. Previous owner must of wore lots of rings lol



It's not perfect but any means but gets rid of the eye sore.
That is awesome. Very nice work. Going to have to try that myself.
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Originally had replaced the left ccv as it was torn with a dorman part from Autozone and right side was fine so left it as is. The cap from dorman fit a little big so I had to reuse the old one.

It was smoking pretty bad still so decided to order 2 Bosch CCV and new "cold climate" hoses just to be sure it wasn't leaking.

At first it was a success, left it idling 2-3 min and revved and no smoke!!!

But after trying again there it was again

Much less smoke but still there.

I guess it's my valve stem seals or maybe residual oil still burning?



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