Hi All,
Coming back to this forum after a hiatus of stalking some of the builds on here when I first bought my car - spring will be here soon so I will finally be able to do some upgrades to the Vibe, which I have owned for almost a year now!
Scored this baby for $3800 @ 150,000 clean black leather interior and flawless body, moon 'n tunes package - although one unfortunate evening in October the engine had a cylinder misfire due to bad fuel injectors / gaskets / compression. I shopped around and got a deal for $1600 a new engine replacement with only 50,000 miles on it. So in the end I paid about full market value for this car :p
Minor Upgrades:
-Replaced bulbs for brighter high-power bulbs
-Black coated front brake discs
-RhinoRack Vortex crossbars
-Rear Cargo Liner
Plans:
- WeatherTech floor liners - been dreaming of doing this for a while, just haven't brought myself around to dropping the $120 for rubber mats
-Interior gear organization / mounting options - special mounting of some kind. I ride with seats folded down and covered with a rubber liner anyway. Perfect room for a duffel / kayak paddles, snowboard / you name it - it all just likes to slide around so I would like to really secure everything other than the standard OTS options out there for interior organization. That I already have back there
- Considering Wind Fairing on roof rack. Although the vibe bars are a "half length" rack, so I wouldn't be able to get the fairing flush with the roof without changing the entire rack to mounting feet on the body. I would rather not do this and put weight on the body panels above the door rather than where they are now.
- Lighting Any of these would be damn awesome - light bar w/ deep cell battery upgrade, LED fog lights
- Tail lights tint
Most of my plans are functional / cosmetic oriented. I am looking at potential perfromance upgrades but it is a hard sell for me for an automatic and I already threw quite a bit at the new engine and am hesitant to put additional stress on it. Wish I had the AWD version I would put chunkier tires on and test if out on a mud course around here
Apologies ahead of time, could use a wash in the winter pics