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amacman, good eye! Oddly, the dent isn't as noticeable in person. Still, I'll look into what is required to remove the trim, pull the dent, and replace the trim attachment hardware. I imagine it's plastic clips that will break as I pull it off. Hopefully they are separate, and I won't have to order a new door ding trim piece. Then I'd have one new-looking trim piece and be forced to get an entire set. :p Thanks for the good words all.

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Originally Posted by J.Belknap (Post 736137)

I'm trying to convince her that we should get married in a parking lot of the Virginia Beach city park, have all our car friends there, bar-b-que it up, and as we depart in our 3000GT Twin Turbo cars (how we met) we'll leave matching tire marks on the asphalt. She said "she'll think about it".

Yeah. Good luck with that one. ;)

Very good pictures. My compliments to your fiance.

Cheers,

FLi

at pic 2 I thought I noticed the dent and pic 3 I thought OMG .
it`s more noticeable with the road marking reflection .
would you post on this thread how you go about removing the dent because my daughters car has a smaller but sharper dent on the rear quarter .
I have removed shallow dents on cars by placing a hand on the outside and gently rubbing with pressure on the inside .
don`t like to tackle dents with a sharp crease in case I split the paint .

do you feel a difference with the 315`s on the front .

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Originally Posted by Weasel (Post 736143)

I think I'm gonna hold off on getting new tires for the 20's and keep riding the 18's till I get another pair of 10.5's for the front and go this route... then I'd finally have that pesky understeer problem licked!

It pushes a lot less, I think you'll be well pleased with it :)

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Originally Posted by amacman (Post 736603)

I think that there's some sort of optical illusion going on.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...5/IMG_1905.jpg

There is a *slight* dent that I had to look for. The door ding strip seems fine. In any case, it's so minor, that it's a low priority for me to have repaired. (Only to have it happen again in a parking lot the next day) But, if I ever do decide to pull it, I will take notes from the professional and post a how-to. :)

There is a lot, and I mean a lot more road noise from the tires (I just turn the music up), steering is affected more by the ruts in older roads, and understeer is all but gone.

The brake pedal bushings came in from UUC today, so I'm going to put those in and hopefully report that pedal feel is no longer sloppy. Do your guy's brake pedals feel wobbly from side to side?

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Originally Posted by E53is (Post 736408)

are you serious? :dunno:

just right click on the image , "save picture as" (re-name it if you want), then save it to the location you would like the image to go....

sweet mate, and yes i'm serious, very serious! i rarely use a computer and when i do its just for browsing on sites.. :thumbup: cheers

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Originally Posted by mrbmwx5 (Post 736410)

Right click on the mouse and set as background.:thumbup:

sweet, all sorted..:thumbup:

Woww!! Amazing pictures!!! and yeah the dent is veryy minor, I would've never noticed it.

Man, that is a sweet ride.

What amazes me is that VA has no dust or you have a dust force field around your car. Great pics and nice shine on your X.