Introduction
The car as I got it in April 2010:
List of things I have done:
New aerial (Paint had flaked off the old one)
Abarth interior mats
Black 'scorpion' badge for the rear
New tax disc holder
Alpine IDA - X305s headunit
2 Alpine SXE-1750s front door speakers
Alpine 200w Sub (amped)
Osram Nightbreaker Dipped headlight bulbs
Replaced interior courtesy lights and boot light (48LED panels) Very bright!
New Battery
New exhaust (standard)
Tinted rear 3 windows (20%)
List of things on the agenda:
Badgeless grill - on order (will see what it looks like on, not convinced yet)
Refurbish wheels (I have looked at getting some new ones, but I haven't really found any I like. I was looking at some of the Abarth 500 wheels, but even they look a bit too Halfordsy)
Vinyl Wrap the front bumper (See below)
Give the engine bay a good clean up (Seeing xFaz's put it to shame!)
Fix the 3rd brake light issue (Fiat never fitted it properly, so there is a gap between the red light lens and the black window edging. Having the tints really show it up!)
Get some new sunvisors (drivers is broken(It just hangs down. I don't have a torque screwdriver, so for now it is held up by some store loyalty cards jammed up behind the interior light ) and the passengers one is tatty)
Tinted side repeaters
The interior lights improvement: (Info)
Rear badge:
Sub: (Still plenty of room for things in the boot! Although, not with my mobile workshop in there, what with it being a Fiat )
Tints: (The front windows haven't been tinted at all, it's just the light!)
The idea of the vinyl wrap is that the chassis behind the bumper has started to rust. I need to fix that, and it looks very poor. I have thought about making it look A3 style (See pic) but I fear that when I put a badgeless grill in, there will be too much black. So I think it will either be the vinyl or the grill, but both wouldn't look right. What do you think?
As it is at the moment:
Photoshop attempt of Vinyl Wrap effect:
Photoshop attempt of badgeless grill on it's own:
Photoshop attempt of badgeless grill and black vinyl:
All comments and suggestions welcome!
Chris
List of things I have done:
New aerial (Paint had flaked off the old one)
Abarth interior mats
Black 'scorpion' badge for the rear
New tax disc holder
Alpine IDA - X305s headunit
2 Alpine SXE-1750s front door speakers
Alpine 200w Sub (amped)
Osram Nightbreaker Dipped headlight bulbs
Replaced interior courtesy lights and boot light (48LED panels) Very bright!
New Battery
New exhaust (standard)
Tinted rear 3 windows (20%)
List of things on the agenda:
Badgeless grill - on order (will see what it looks like on, not convinced yet)
Refurbish wheels (I have looked at getting some new ones, but I haven't really found any I like. I was looking at some of the Abarth 500 wheels, but even they look a bit too Halfordsy)
Vinyl Wrap the front bumper (See below)
Give the engine bay a good clean up (Seeing xFaz's put it to shame!)
Fix the 3rd brake light issue (Fiat never fitted it properly, so there is a gap between the red light lens and the black window edging. Having the tints really show it up!)
Get some new sunvisors (drivers is broken(It just hangs down. I don't have a torque screwdriver, so for now it is held up by some store loyalty cards jammed up behind the interior light ) and the passengers one is tatty)
Tinted side repeaters
The interior lights improvement: (Info)
Rear badge:
Sub: (Still plenty of room for things in the boot! Although, not with my mobile workshop in there, what with it being a Fiat )
Tints: (The front windows haven't been tinted at all, it's just the light!)
The idea of the vinyl wrap is that the chassis behind the bumper has started to rust. I need to fix that, and it looks very poor. I have thought about making it look A3 style (See pic) but I fear that when I put a badgeless grill in, there will be too much black. So I think it will either be the vinyl or the grill, but both wouldn't look right. What do you think?
As it is at the moment:
Photoshop attempt of Vinyl Wrap effect:
Photoshop attempt of badgeless grill on it's own:
Photoshop attempt of badgeless grill and black vinyl:
All comments and suggestions welcome!
Chris
