WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR BRZ TODAY? - Page 731 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

sti4thewin · 11-29-2014, 04:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BRZNoob28

Got around to installing my USDM Tom's

ugh looks so good! Can't wait to get mine in. How hard was the install?

BRZNoob28 · 11-29-2014, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sti4thewin

ugh looks so good! Can't wait to get mine in. How hard was the install?

Only took me bout 20 min, pretty easy ☺

Stang70Fastback · 11-29-2014, 07:29 PM

I drove over an hour away to get the front of my car wrapped with Xpel, then sat in the waiting room for a half hour, and then had them pull my car into their bay, only for the guy to THEN tell me that he didn't get the Xpel shipment in time so all he had was the wrong size roll of 3M...
...so then I drove over an hour home and in order to calm my nerves I ordered a boatload of replacement bulbs from DiodeDynamics for the outside of the car, lol. Front and rear turn signal bulbs (XP80), reverse lights (XP50), side marker lights (HP3), and License Plate Lights (SMD2). I plan on doing a proper indoors/outdoors daytime comparison since it's always damned near impossible to find proper comparison videos (dunno why people insist on doing all the comparison videos at night when all that does is blow-out the exposure and make it impossible to tell the difference, lol.)

aegisdrgn · 11-29-2014, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Stang70Fastback

I drove over an hour away to get the front of my car wrapped with Xpel, then sat in the waiting room for a half hour, and then had them pull my car into their bay, only for the guy to THEN tell me that he didn't get the Xpel shipment in time so all he had was the wrong size roll of 3M...
...so then I drove over an hour home and in order to calm my nerves I ordered a boatload of replacement bulbs from DiodeDynamics for the outside of the car, lol. Front and rear turn signal bulbs (XP80), reverse lights (XP50), side marker lights (HP3), and License Plate Lights (SMD2). I plan on doing a proper indoors/outdoors daytime comparison since it's always damned near impossible to find proper comparison videos (dunno why people insist on doing all the comparison videos at night when all that does is blow-out the exposure and make it impossible to tell the difference, lol.)

Did you have to make an appointment? If you did, you should ask for a discount when you finally get it done, as compensation for the long drive, and them not getting their inventory straight.

Ganthrithor · 11-29-2014, 08:49 PM

Took it on a ~100 mile charge through the mountains. Ate a yummy burrito on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere. Got a big thumbs up from the driver of a pickup who passed me going the other direction. Got really lucky with traffic: basically got to drive whatever speed I wanted for at least 50 miles of mountain road... the few people I found going the same direction were all really polite and let me by. Didn't get stuck behind anyone until I was almost out of the mountains again.

Good day. I love this car.

Stang70Fastback · 11-29-2014, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by aegisdrgn

Did you have to make an appointment? If you did, you should ask for a discount when you finally get it done, as compensation for the long drive, and them not getting their inventory straight.

I had an appointment since Nov. 5th. It was supposed to be last weekend. But when I called Friday the day before, I was told he didn't have the film because he had just ordered it on Tuesday (so basically he sat around for two weeks before ordering it with NO days of leeway.) He said he would have to reschedule for a week later. When I asked him why he hadn't ordered the film, he said he wants because sometimes people cancel, and then he has to pay return shipping. So instead of him eating the couple bucks when customers cancel (which is part of doing business and could easily be solved with a partial down payment by the customer) he now bumps my appointment by a week, causing me to juggle everything on my end to make the next weekend work (and allowing more rock chips to accumulate on the front of my car.)

This weekend I decided to just show up since I hadn't heard anything, and that's when he made me sit around and then pulled the car in before telling me all he had was the wrong size of the wrong material (apparently Xpel sent him the wrong size and he hadn't received the proper size.) And again he made a point to mention that he had to pay return shipping for the wrong size material (huh?!)

Anyway, after I expressed my displeasure and asked for my keys back, he offered to tint my windows for free, but I told him I am not coming back. Screw this guy. Worst customer service ever, and if that's how he treats people, I don't even want to know how he'd treat the car.

gravitylover · 11-29-2014, 11:53 PM

Went 20 miles out of my way last night so I could play with the car a bit on a road that's been asking for it for a long time. Felt sooo good

00NissanNinja · 11-30-2014, 01:20 PM

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Touching up chips on the edge like that really sucks but its pretty much gone. Ignore some of those smears that's just from the rubbing compound

Also had a long scratch here in the green circle:
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It actually looks like some asshat with a lifted truck or something dinged me there because there is a straight small crease in the sheet metal where the scratch was.

DGMlJDlBRZ · 11-30-2014, 02:06 PM

The first two pictures, I was like wtf am I looking at lol. Can't even tell in the second pic that there was a chip. Sucks about the crease though.

austinbrz · 11-30-2014, 04:22 PM

Put some new wheels on today....

Rays Gram Lights 57C6
18x8.5 +35 Front, 18x9.5 +40 Rear in Semi Gloss Black.
245/35ZR-18 Hankook Ventus V12 evo2 Front
265/35ZR-18 Hankook Ventus V12 evo2 Rear

Stang70Fastback · 11-30-2014, 05:03 PM

For those of you who don't know, Subaru used my photo as their "Fan Photo Friday" picture a few weeks back on Facebook / Tumblr / Flickr / etc...

And now someone just sent me this link. Hahaha, my car is SO famous!
http://www.torquenews.com/1084/purpo...delivers-video

onefitz · 11-30-2014, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Stang70Fastback

For those of you who don't know, Subaru used my photo as their "Fan Photo Friday" picture a few weeks back on Facebook / Tumblr / Flickr / etc...

And now someone just sent me this link. Hahaha, my car is SO famous!
http://www.torquenews.com/1084/purpo...delivers-video

You should see about getting some compensation for that photo.

mixxxx · 12-01-2014, 12:06 AM

Pacific Coast Highway roadtrip.

free image uploading

amaciose · 12-01-2014, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by mixxxx

Pacific Coast Highway roadtrip.

free image uploading

Link a gallery when you put one together! I want to make that drive soon

11-30-2014, 01:20 PM	#10228
00NissanNinja The Thread Lurker Join Date: Jan 2012 Drives: '14 BRZ, '17 GTI, MT09 Location: SW OH Posts: 552 Thanks: 282 Thanked 213 Times in 135 Posts Mentioned: 6 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Made this vanish: Before: After: Touching up chips on the edge like that really sucks but its pretty much gone. Ignore some of those smears that's just from the rubbing compound Also had a long scratch here in the green circle: It actually looks like some asshat with a lifted truck or something dinged me there because there is a straight small crease in the sheet metal where the scratch was.

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11-29-2014, 07:29 PM	#10223
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11-29-2014, 11:53 PM	#10227
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