Did a couple of things to the ol' Celi..., Wanting your opinions. Options

[richee3]

Like the title says, I have done a couple of things to my car to update the exterior. Just simple things that cost next to nothing, to kinda give my car an updated look and make me feel like I've actually accomplished something, even though I've done absolutely nothing at all. Both are easily reversible, and one of them will be unless almost every person on 6gc says they love it. The odds of that happening are slim to nil though, so I'll probably change it back next week.

Anyway, the first little tweak I did (this is the one I will change back) is the spoiler. I have the 3 post spoiler, and I got bored the other day and took it off to see how my car would look. The wingless look kinda sucked something awful since I have absolutely no other mods like JDM tails to set it off. So while it was off, I got the idea of taking the middle post off and seeing what that looked like. So I currently have a 3 post spoiler modified to be a 2 post. Like I said, I'm changing it back, I just want to hear everyone's opinion.







The other thing I did isn't as easy to reverse, but I kinda like it. I've looked high and low for a set of rims that I actually like on our cars, but I never seem to find anything that seems perfect to me. I know I'll probably catch a lot of flak for this, but I kinda like the factory wheels. However, mine are just a little beat up... I guess the guy who owned the car before me can't tell where the curbs are. And the center caps have almost no paint left on them. I was gonna repaint the Toyota emblem in the middle of the center caps to be the same chrome that they came out of the factory with, but I decided I'd be original. I bought the chrome spray paint, but I also bought a can of Dupli-Color black spray paint, matched to my car. So I taped off the rest of the center caps and sanded the emblems down and repainted them black to match the car. Granted, up close, they look like s**t because the caps themselves are really faded and the black paint is new, so the contrast looks bad. Plus when you just look at the cap, you can tell that the black paint just doesn't belong there. But I think they look alright on the car. So in the pictures I took, I tried my best to hide the fading on the center caps and get at least some black paint on the car in the picture so you guys can see it all together. This can be reversed too, and I can still make them chrome just like they came. Let me know what you guys think.

















Oh yeah, I forgot to say this about the center caps. I messed the tape up on a couple of them and didn't realize it until after I had already painted them, so I have to take them off and redo them anyway, so if you guys would rather see them back with the original chrome, I can do that just as easy.

[richee3]

you my friend are really good at masking off small lines! they look really good in my opinion!
go gun-metal Grey, keep the black Toyota sign. black is overplayed.

Thanks! It really wasn't all that hard. I just taped off the entire center cap then used a tiny razor knife to cut around the emblem. I didn't do a perfect job though, I cut a little wide in some places and some paint got under the tape. So I'm repainting them again next week.

i like the 2 post idea

I kinda like it too, but I'm not sure how much more I like it than the 3 post. I'm probably putting the post back in later. The spoiler itself is too flexible in the middle now. If something heavy fell on it (heaven forbid...) it would probably snap the spoiler in half. Then again, it'd probably do some damage even with the post in there.

it looks very nice!!.. i mean your spoiler!!.. do you have a close up of your spoiler and your hatch??

I can get some pictures of it for you. I tried not to get too close because you can see where I plugged the hole in my hatch and there is a gray post-shaped hole in my spoiler that you can see if you look at it from the front of the car or if you look in the reflection in the paint. I could have used my black spray paint to blend the hole, but I didn't think about it at the time. I'll be sure to get some more pictures for you, and some pictures where I WASN'T using my cell phone.