Thread: What did you do to your Car today?

Shopping around for parts today. New LHR window trim is $55 from GMPartsDirect. New LHR tire is about $130 from Nexen. TB is $140 from From RockAuto. . Not too happy about these expenses. Some parts will have to wait a while. $$$

Drove my dads Colorado to work since car doors are froze shut.

Originally Posted by danielle15

Drove my dads Colorado to work since car doors are froze shut.

been there before, sucks.....my 03 GMC the locks used to freeze up all the time in the doors. so id always make sure i had a lighter to heat the key up to thaw the lock and make it work.

He got the driver door open after I got to work. Looks kike I need to put some vasoline on the door seals to prevent freezing again.

^ with some busted knuckles I'm guessing. For the first time the rears can be a PIA.

This isn't for my car, but I'm polishing out a set of 97-03 exhaust tips.

The left one was really rough.



I'm getting it.



Still needs a bit more work, but it's almost done.
EDIT:
Finished this one up one more to go.

What are you using to get them that shiney?

I wet sand and then polish with Mothers aluminum polish. Gives a really nice shine. Here is the other side.

So are you just doing it by hand or when power tools? I've done mine by hand but only down to like 1,000 grit, still shines but nothing close to that. I just havent taken the effort to make it more shiney.

I took my belt sand and removed all the carbon and huge scratches. Then sanded by hand up to 2000 wet sand sand. Then hit with the mothers polish and bam really shiny exhaust tips.

I get to break out some paper and go back over mine, her tips are blackened over. Scheduled for an oil change and tire rotation after work, with a basic cleaning while I'm treating her so might as well clean up the tail end while I'm in the mood.

I polished the tips on my GT in the same way and after a year I wiped them off and they were as shiny as the day I polished them.

I roughed mine up to silver but never bothered to stage it to a mirror finish, just a bright aluminum look... didn't last long, felt ...meh about redoing the process. Figure its high time I do it.

Didn't really put in the blackened headlights today but I lost my cam for a couple days and I got my car back today.



Sorry for the dark pic.

Well I started doing a through detailing on it. Sprayed the outside down for not to get dirt off and a good wash and wax will be Friday when I get home to TN. The interior is super clean and nice now. Put some conditioner on the leather as well and its amazing how conditioner makes the colors come out

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Put gas in it. Going to look at a 00 olds silhouette on wed that could be candidate for l67 swap

i acquired a 500 watt sub amp today. for the low low price of, "on the house" as per my brother. this is a link to it, its used, they no longer sell this model, but the reviews were good. Memphis 16-MCD500 (16mcd500) 500W RMS, Class D Monoblock MClass

a friend of ours some time back gave him a box of parts. a z06 vette stock cam, and a few other stock parts off his vette, and this amp.

he has no use for it, so i get to play with it now.