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Body kits are cool n all, but when they aren't painted it just screams poor taste. But who am I to expect clean lines after a body kit is installed.
omg! you saw a cavalier?????
No, a cheap warped unpainted body kit.
paul wrote:No, a cheap warped unpainted body kit.
Why are you dogging someones ride for? Maybe their not done with it. Dont post a pic of someones work while in progress and dog it.
Actually it is a rather expensive kit that just has not been fitted correctly.
Nice crack in your windshield goober!
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You can tell that the kit has been there for a long time by the warping of the plastic that the phone-cam pic doesn't detail too well. I'm not dogging someones car per se. I'm dogging that it wasn't painted before putting it on.
And my car (I was drivng my Outback at the time) was a Colorado car so the cracks come with the territory.
paul wrote:You can tell that the kit has been there for a long time by the warping of the plastic that the phone-cam pic doesn't detail too well. I'm not dogging someones car per se. I'm dogging that it wasn't painted before putting it on.
And my car (I was drivng my Outback at the time) was a Colorado car so the cracks come with the territory.
What plastic do you speak of? Thats a urethane type J kit. I am just asking because I dont know of any plastic on the exterior of the car.
And I hear ya about the crack windshield....they are always doing construction where I live and everyone gets a rock or two hitting their windshield.
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Honestly, this is just, there really isn't words for it...
What were you thinkin?
"Oh my god, there's a guy, in a cavalier, with a $900 body kit thats unpainted and kinda warped looking, I NEED to take a picture and I NEED to run home and post his pic, registering my disgust throughout the internet."
Who the @!#$ cares if his body kit is unpainted? Did it make your day any worse? Does it make you feel better to pick on somebody elses car who is obviously making a good natured attempt at something good looking? LOTS of people drive around with unpainted body kits for a good reason. Body kits hang very low, a LOT lower than stock bumpers, so learning to drive is a whole new adventure. You have to learn how to approach a drive way, watch for dips and rail road tracks, small animals in the road become kit-destroying fur balls of disaster. An unpainted body kit is saving the guy some paint and money later.
It just erks me that people feel the need to do this. Did you go up to the guy and ask him if he bought the kit, then ran out of money for paint? I doubt it, so how the @!#$ do you know what he's doing?
Grow up...
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Yea sorry, it just looks like plastic warping from heat. Chances are it was poor fitment.
Here is what I was actually thinking:
"Wow look another body kit that is unpainted and obviuously been on the car for some time, if you don't have the money to paint it before installing, don't install it, it looks tacky. Save up the $500-600 to get it painted so it's done right the first time, or do it yourself if you have the ability. It looks unclean. OEM looks better in it's current state. This will be funny to post in j-body to get someone riled up if they started insinuating."
There's no immaturity, I just baited this conversation with the additional bonus of having a good laugh with the rest of you who had the sence to paint their kit before installing.
i dont see that as being any worse than the gay ass grey bumpers GM geniously put on our cars
its unpainted...whoop de damn doo
my kit wont be painted when its on?
Then our opinions of what looks good vastly vary. I digress.
Hey! Leave that guy alone
I'm saving up for paint and body work right now...the dropoff date is the weekend of July 22nd. I have to save up my checks then I can send him in. My car looks like this:
I'm getting body work done to repair 5 years of wear and tear so he will look brand new again. Then primer and unfortunately, he'll be in primer for a little while because he needs a clutch right after primer then I start saving up again for the paint. All I have to say is bear with my car's appearance and don't beat me up too bad (unless you're ginuinely joking), I have 3 to fix up!
He's still a happy car though!
My back bumper on my kit is warped . I don't really think it is because it is CHEAP plastic , but maybe where I did'nt have a tail pipe extension putting the tail pipe past the bumper . The heat rose up and warped the back bumper right above the tailpipe .
My bumper started off straight but was warped in less than a week because of the hot exhaust coming up from behind it .
Another thing is maybe he was test fitting the kit before painting . That way he could get it to fit right before painting . I had a friend that did not test fit his kit . He had it painted and it fit like crap . The paint job did'nt look as good after getting it to fit right . If you notice in the photo the sides are not on the car yet .
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paul wrote:Here is what I was actually thinking:
"Wow look another body kit that is unpainted and obviuously been on the car for some time, if you don't have the money to paint it before installing, don't install it, it looks tacky. Save up the $500-600 to get it painted so it's done right the first time, or do it yourself if you have the ability. It looks unclean. OEM looks better in it's current state. This will be funny to post in j-body to get someone riled up if they started insinuating."
There's no immaturity, I just baited this conversation with the additional bonus of having a good laugh with the rest of you who had the sence to paint their kit before installing.
Whateva man.
Thats BS because of where you posted the pic originally.
Even if that is what you were thinking...you need a life. Really. Thats what Im thinking.
I think its tacky to drive with a windshield like that. Dont drive the car if you cants save $200-$400 to get it replaced. (see how that sounds?)
Say it with me, "Its not what you know...It's what you can prove"
I heard kits shouldnt be painted right away anyway...because they need time to "settel" or "strech out" w/e you want to call it. i also heard if you paint them right away the paint might crack for that reason....but i dont know anything about kits or painting...
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The windshield thing is apple to oranges. I didn't ask for it to be cracked before installation, it happened before I bought the car. It saves me money for when you guys break my windshield in for getting pissed.
For those of you who are saving up, more power to you. I have 3 cars too and I know how the car maintenance/work gets shuffled around constantly.
For those cars I see in rush hour nearly every day who don't do a damned thing to them but let them look like primer piles, your car looks like @!#$.
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"Wow look another body kit that is unpainted and obviuously been on the car for some time, if you don't have the money to paint it before installing, don't install it, it looks tacky. .
Actually, Ridin on Prime is a smart thing to do. That way you can go around town and find out where you can and cannot go. If you paint it right off you take a chance of scraping off some of the paint. and about this comment.......
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Save up the $500-600 to get it painted so it's done right the first time, or do it yourself if you have the ability
Where are you going to get a paint job Macco????
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It is a good idea to test fit before painting. When I first got my kit back in March of 03 (fiberglass... eh...) MY car was black with the grey kit. I drove around getting used to where I could and could not drive, and stuff like that because I didn't want to paint it and then have it get messed up ( and I'm an auto body tech/painter).
I don't have the front bumper in my sig anymore, I got a streetfire front on there now in which a friend of mine had wrecked, and I'm fixing up. So I have a custom blue car with a black front bumper. It's a good thing I didn't finish fixing it up then painting it and putting it on... because 2 of the methods I tried to fix the crack in the urethane didn't hold up at all. After making metal brackets for the crack and riveting them in behind the bumper... it's finally holding up very well... so when I get the time outside of working on other people's cars I can finally finish fixing mine.
For all you know maybe he had the money saved up to paint it, and an unfortunate situation came to be and now he can't paint it now. Maybe (for example) if he's still living with his parents, maybe they were in an accident or one of them got really sick and he can't get it painted now because he has to help out with stuff and bills around the house now or something. Maybe he's lazy... you don't know that, and it's not cool at all for you to judge him when you don't know what's going on.
Sure kits look better painted... but you don't know why he doesn't have it painted yet so don't go doggin on him about it.
Well for the body kit itself... $500-600, for the whole car, ya another story. Maybe everyone gets different wheels and deals than myself or others. It was a random number pulled from my a$$
For the record I was dogging the car, not the person. Whatever works!
guess i was ricin it out for a long time! oh well, gotta do what you gotta do, lets see your car...considering its stock, so how about you stfu stop hatin on other peoples work an actually do something to your car.....
