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Sunny Day1Sunny Day2Sunny Day3Sunny Day4Sunny Day5Fresh Clean Sunset1Fresh Clean Sunset2Fresh Clean Sunset3Fresh Clean Sunset4View 1View 2View 3View 4View 5Nice and Clean and DebadgedHeadunit and Interior paint(not finished)freshly cleaned engine bayPainted wheels, winter tires, and lug nut caps.AntennaMy own 3 horn wire harness. Wires directly to stock location.New horns on hood latch bracket.Another ViewBottom ViewAll 3 HornsMe and Jack screwin around at walmartMy new SIGCompliments of MrizzleAnother new sig from NascarXprt

Nice Job, Steve! I was wondering what the airbox would look like painted.

its only temporary until i get my anodized blue intake. also have a TON more mods planned totalling upwards of 3-4 grand. but for now i cant afford it

looking good

nice looking 04 there. first things first Tint it! lol

Im saving up to get the blue mirrored and fade to black tint. my dad had the red style on his 89 silverado. it was sexyedit: i found some OEM lexus 16"s that would look rather dashing on my vibe. 75 for the set of 4. gives me all winter to have them blasted and powdercoated charcoal

nice!ok guys, this is pissing me off... was it easy to get the engine cover off?

Quote, originally posted by ramenboy... »ok guys, this is pissing me off... was it easy to get the engine cover off?not really --- 4 10mm bolts

so yes. it was very easy. just a flimsy piece of plastic

yea its only two 10mm bolts in the front and two plastic clips in the rear that you can take off with a pair of needle nosed pliers.

finally got my new horns and fog bulbs. once it stops raining ill actually be able to installEdit: and installed the horns ths morning after work. Pictures soon as i am back at work now. Wired the 2 new horns in along with the stock horn. sounds 1,000,000 times better. ill try getting the pix on b4 i leave work

sad face today. removed my aftermarket pedals and chrome antenna in advance for the upcoming winter. now to get some new steelies and winter tires and im all set.

nice ride

thanx. she still needs work but its all uphill from here. plenty of mods planned and i cannot wait

Antenna reminds me of something like an RC vehicle...I too have the sad face.. just put back on the factory 17's for winter...

Winter Mode FTW!!! Just think how much fun Spring will be when you can put all that stuff back on...

oh spring will be great. windo tint, loering springs, some nice wheels, and my CAI. hopefully spring will come after only a few weeks of winter. took my wheelcovers off and was astonshed by how rusty my steelies are. they will have to go

Well a big ole bump for new pix. And I finally got around to Debadging the Vibe. Unfortunately these pix are all from beforehand. lol. Not only that but by the end of the week I will have four brand spanking new winter tires! friggin goodyear supposedly doesnt make the assurance with triple tread in the 205/55 R16. sux for ME! anyways. Enjoy!

so llast night i was inredibly bored and decided to get my new winter tires a little early. Went with the Hankook I-Pike. They've got a sweet relatively agressive tread but not soo much road noise as i've seen in the past with such tread. cant wait for that white stuff. I just gotta repaint the steelies and coat them with the rust-seal.(they're lookin real crappy!) then Im ready!

Quote, originally posted by GoodVibErations2004 »I just gotta repaint the steelies and coat them with the rust-seal.(they're lookin real crappy!) then Im ready!good plan!

egh i know. every time i look at them i cringe. thought i might be able to get a new set of steelies when i got my winter rubbers. unfortunately, pepboys didnt carry them and i couldnt afford the extra 76bux per tire for new rims(even though they were HOTTTTT and CHEAP). so come spring ima get me a set! ill post pix of those rims at a later date. and of my steelies after i paint them

Bump for new pix and sigs. AND im finally going to have some time tomorrow to paint my revolting steelies. no more gagging every time i look at my wheels!oh and dont worry. i'll take as many pix as i can

I think if you got an overlay for your engine cover it would look sick. Like a VVT-i 16 Valve overlay.

Oh i will MOST DEFINITELY get an overlay. I debadged the vibe so I could replace the stock badges with vinyl ones. not to mention the genvibe.com ones.

FINALLY! i painted the wheels, removed the lug nut caps from the wheel covers and used them right on the lugs, gave her a goooooood freakin wash, took some new pix....... and oh yeah...... FINALLY cleaned the friggin engine bay. wow. she sparkles. when I started her back up I swear I heard her let out a sigh of relief. new pix in first post Now all i need are some crappy 16" trim rings that i can clean up and paint to match the car. ooooh shivers. lolp.s. somehow managed to seriously pull a muscle in the left side of my lower back........ in the first 5 minutes of the whole friggin project........... Thank God for codiene

Ok so i was lookig through my previous pix...... WOW was my engine dirrrrty. I didn't really see how bad it was until i put the pix side by side.DirtyClean

Looking Clean. Nice Neptune.

ty. its the nicest car ive had to date. and ive had 8 cars in the 4-5 years ive had my license

What'd you use to clean the engine? Just water?

water mixed with dishsoap actually. and one of those old skool car washing hand mitt things... lol worked pretty well. just gotta be careful not to get water in places it shouldnt go

Wow...... just looked at my odo. and realized........... i have 1,325 miles to the 50,000 mi mark! when i got the car in april it had 38 sumthin on it. my first "New" car and my first car under 150,000 miles at time of aquisition. lol. I will update when the landmark is finally hit. so far no problems

did you paint the dash peieces or was that a kit?If it was a kit, where did you get it?

painted. walmart has a metallic blue with metal flake in it that worked perfect.

got a new mod the other day. It was snow/rain-ing and windy somethin fierce! Now i see what yall were talking bout the vibe catchin the wind. I used to drive a blazer(3 actually 3 different years) and they were all the late 80s early 90's boxy flat sided style. I was amazed to see that the vibe caught the wind worse than my old blazers. Anyways on the cross wind my wiperblades did nothing. they caught the wind and missed the precipitation. especially with this heavy wet stuff. so i went to advance auto parts and picked up the one kind of wiper i havent used yet. they are relatively new i guess..... no pressure points like the rainx blades ive come to love in the summer. but half the height of those ugly rubber coated winter things. TRICO NEOFORM. they come pre curved and under the pressure of the wiper arm conform perfectly to the windshield. Not only that but they've got a unique centered airdam thing so no matter what direction the lowest pressure or fastest air is hitting them they STICK to the glass. THey are an all season blade and they are amazing. they work wonders on snow, sleet, rain, and ice wont eff them up. if only i could use one on the rear. lol i will post pix asap. for those of you that want to pick up a set, they cost me like 42 suthin total for the set. 21" 16-210 for the drivers side 18" 16-180 for passenger.

UGH i totally forgot to post this when it happened. I was off work from christmas eve until jan 5th. Sometime around noon the 4th of january my car hit a milestone. 50K MILES!!!!! with NO significant problems as of yet. other than the one time she leaked after a freezing nght and some rain.

I've got some chrome lugs that fit the stock wheels and those chrome trim rings if you want 'em, we could work a deal... don't need 'em anymore now that I have the new wheels. They would look great on those painted steelies! The ride is lookin' good so far!

Quote, originally posted by Blanco_Diablo »I've got some chrome lugs that fit the stock wheels and those chrome trim rings if you want 'em, we could work a deal... don't need 'em anymore now that I have the new wheels. They would look great on those painted steelies! The ride is lookin' good so far!Hey, would you happen to have any pictures of that chrome trim ring when it was installed? I saw them at Canadian tire and was wondering how the looked. Sorry if I'm hijacking this thread Steven

Here you go:More pics in my garage:http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=31443Didn't have nice painted wheels like GoodVibe's though.

im actually looking into getting a set of the chrom trim rings and some center caps, the kind that clips onto the lugnuts and covers the whole center.

Well yesterday after work I got an oil change and put my summer tires back on. Once the days get a lil brighter and warmer I'll be able to finish the swap to summer mode. CAN'T WAIT!.... oh and on the drive home from putting on my summer tires guess what. IT SNOWED!!!!!! not enough to care but enough to be slightly depressing

Did u use high temp paint on the plastic engine cover or just regular?

just regular spraypaint. im going to have to redo it though because now that its seen a few seasons its starting to peel.

Any updates on your Vibe man?