anyone know of any quick, one or two day projects that cost less than $50 to do it yourself? I'm talking about quick little mods, like adding an arm rest, laptop hub, etc.

 

you can do headlight bulbs, a shift ****, wheel trim rings (if you have steelies that is), go to a Honda dealership and get an S2K antenna, do a Home-depot front lip, interior color lights.

You could do any of those for under $50 and most will take under an hour to do.

 

interior lighting is relatively simple...especially if you tap the cigarette socket instead of other wires.

 

sorry but Ive never had to work with a car before so bear with me please :D

when I need to install anything electrical and am provided with wiring to do so, where do I plug it in? Do I just strip off some insulation from an existing electrical wire and get some juice that way, or are there special sockets already in the car?

 

what is a home depot front lip?

 

Cheap projects:

Painting caliper and drums: $25
Homemade cup LEDS: $20
Clearing out front turn signals: $0
Black out wheel wells with bedliner Spray: $10
Cheap sounddeadening with carpet padding: $20
Shaving rear emblems for Toyota/Ist emblems : $45
Ground wire kit: $25
Homemade Cold Cathode Interior: $40
Blackout taillights/headlights: $25
DIY Foglights: $45

Basically, anything you can do it yourself you you should be able to save hundreds in the long run.

Home depot front lip = homemade wind splitter using ABS plastic.

 

This has the potential to be a very intersting thread. Let's keep the ideas flowing!

 

Most electrical comes with the wires and you have places under the steering wheel to pop in rocker switches and make it look OEM.
What kind of fog lights can you get for $45? And do they have ones that look stock and fit in the stock spot?

 

There are quite a few foglights you can get for under $50 vs. the dealer ones for $200. Of course they won't be exactly plug and play since there is a bit of DIY involved with securing them in the holes and wiring, but in the end it will look better and save you quite a bit of money.

I paid for my Hellas 60 bucks shipped and installed them in two hours.

 

Could you elaborate a bit on the homemade cup lights? I'll def get to work on those and the home-depot lip

should be a good start to personalizing my car
thanks for all the input

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Also, I'm really interested in installing something like a laptop hub somewhere in the car, any ideas on how I might pull something like that? I intend on using one of Targus's $25 laptop pads as my base and then I'll expand outwards from there, maybe build a USB hub and wiring into the extra room next to the spare tire well

as always, ideas are welcome

 

whered ya get the hellas? i have stock fogs but cracked a cover and toyota wants 125, so im getting off brand

 

you can do a bunch of stuff:
painted brake calipers.....................$8
painted headlights/smoked tails......$20 for headlights and tails
windsplitter.........................................$30 for material ($50 for support rods)
wal-mart fogs......................................$19
home-made projector headlights.......$25
by the way i spent $35 for the rattle/spray can paint job on the lip kit

 

looking good



just out of curiosity, how does everyone here attach things to their dash? double sided tape? epoxy (:O)? Putty?

 

you can also add HottLoomz to your engine compartment these are tubbing that is easy to put on every wire and tubbing in your engine compartment check it out at streetglow.com..... look for hottloomz on sale now for 4 dollars every 20 feet in all different size tube dementions and this way you can match the engine compartment more with the actual color of your car .... i just got my xA today rs2.0 looks great number 167 latter guys will post other cheep mods i do

 

phantom how did you blacken the turn signals and how much did it cost you i am seriously considering doing that to my new rs2.0 that i got today and i havta say your xA looks tight man

 

Want to touch the kit......

 

a friend of mine owns a mitsubishi evo vii in new zealand, he popped off all the logos ( the little plastic letters saying mitsubishi, lancer ) and painted them flat black, which actually stand out nicely during the day because the rest of his car is a glossy dark grey

has anyone tried this with a scion? pictures?

 

i was thinking about doing that since i am going for the black and TCM look....

 

i used r/c hobby paint(window tint) for the turn signals its like $4 for the paint and another $4 for the clearcoat. Its the same paint for the smoked tails.

 

has anyone installed lights on the door?

where to wire the lights? drill?