Okay, so I was getting a little tired of the boring grey front grill on my 05, and I wanted the silver outline to pop more. Today I prepared everything and painted it black. I think it looks a lot better than it did before in grey. A few days ago I painted the cross bars black, and I repainted the factory steelies as well. I live on a dirt road, so the part of the steel rims that isn't covered by the caps got all rusted/sand blasted. They look new.
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I still haven't got any new wheels installed, because I keep refusing to pay $500 for a set of tires and balance/rotation to get them installed. Every set of wheels that I found that WOULD fit on CL always had no usable tires on them. I had a set of MR7's and Scion Wheels, but i sold those because I needed to save the tire money for bills; I do have an alpine CDE-122 installed though. I'm glad my car has a stock sub installed.