Matt's Aurion (sorry... no creative alias)

[Matt.]

I must say, after today I was tempted to try a DIY repair... I resprayed my grille a nice matte black. The very first time I washed my car with that grille on, the paint chipped in one corner and I've been meaning to respray it ever since. I finally took it off today and sanded it back, then resprayed it. It came up a treat!! I'm quite impressed with how well it worked. A grille is one thing though, I don't know if I'm game to attempt spraying my car...

[SecaBoy]

Whats the worst that can happen?

You have to take it to a panel beater for them to do it.

Just give it a go. :)

[DJKOR]

I must say, after today I was tempted to try a DIY repair... I resprayed my grille a nice matte black. The very first time I washed my car with that grille on, the paint chipped in one corner and I've been meaning to respray it ever since. I finally took it off today and sanded it back, then resprayed it. It came up a treat!! I'm quite impressed with how well it worked. A grille is one thing though, I don't know if I'm game to attempt spraying my car...

As I mentioned, the difference here is that you are spraying part of a piece that is already painted. Just giving you the heads up that if you haven't done painting like this before, it won't exactly be a walk in the park like spraying an entire piece with the same paint. It's getting it to blend in which is the hard part.

Now I'm no professional at this, but from what I've seen, painting any part of a larger painted surface requires a bit of effort to blend it in. An example of what I'm talking about can be seen in the following video. You can see the size of the repaired area, and the area around it that required respraying.

Good luck though. I guess you will learn from trying it out. If worst comes to worst, you can just pay someone to do it if it doesn't work out.

[Matt.]

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Edited August 11, 2010 by mattmcd1

[Matt.]

19" - 'Polished Black' finish

Thoughts?

[httttt]

Do it!

[Steven]

19" - 'Polished Black' finish

Thoughts?

1) Dammit, I want those wheels

2) PERFECT

3) ... oh god I just jizzed my pants

[and1]

Looks good but what's with the holes in the spokes?

[Matt.]

Looks good but what's with the holes in the spokes?

Speed holes?

[SecaBoy]

looks good... get them... :)

[ELEGNT]

yeh man do it!!

[whitezr6]

do it

i re-sprayed my grill too(after DIY disaster) black, just to make it decent till i can get the thai mesh grill

i did it this way

1. sand

2. 2 coats primer

3. paint

4. clear-coat

helps the paint from chipping & flaking off lol

[Matt.]

Saw this and can't decide if I like it. It's a rear logo that would be wired to glow white when the headlights are on, then red when you put your foot on the brake.

Edited August 19, 2010 by mattmcd1

[SecaBoy]

personally, i reckon it'd look awesome...

dunno about the cops with the white light on the rear badge though... :)

[Ascendant Rice]

personally, i reckon it'd look awesome...

dunno about the cops with the white light on the rear badge though... :)

x2!!!!!

[httttt]

Saw this and can't decide if I like it. It's a rear logo that would be wired to glow white when the headlights are on, then red when you put your foot on the brake.

OMG! That is awesome. I want one.

I would probably only wire the red to the brakes and pending if I could be bothered I would have a switch for the white in the dash.

[SecaBoy]

^^^^ winnnaaahhhh!!!!

that would be the way to wire it up, imo...

[httttt]

I just realised it would be around $70AUD... FAAAARKKK DAAAAT.

[Matt.]

Small update. Today I went from this:

To this:

Foggies are still yellow. I have white LEDs for them and 6000K HIDs for my low beams on their way.

I had also done this awhile ago...

[Tash]

The new lights look great :D Can I ask where you sourced them from?

[Matt.]

I got them from eBay. They took about two weeks to get here though...

[Tash]

Cheers for the link - looking at doing parkers, HID's and fog lights soon so just trying to gather as much info as I can :)

[DJKOR]

^ I have a pair of those above in my parkers. Hope you bought a spare set. One side of mine has blown. I don't think it's the LED itself that is the cause for the wear. It's something to do with the supply on the Aurion.

[Matt.]

I bought 6 of them. I also bought a few other types to try out, but these were the first to arrive. I'll do a bit of a photo summary when everything arrives. I've gotten much better at changing them now. First one took about half an hour with a fair bit of abuse being thrown around, other side of the car took about 2 minutes.

Edited February 26, 2011 by Matt.

[benji4138]

Looks good mate :D Loving those LED's