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[Papa Rad17]

Originally Posted by That01Olds

Lol I meant painted to match the color of the car . That was my bad I should've clarified that lol and I knew I had seen them like that somewhere before. I could even see the picture in my head, but I couldn't remember who had done it. Now that you said it was you it all came back to me and I remember after seeing how you did yours I really liked the way it looked. So I still stand by that suggestion cause it did look sweet on your car. It's a shame that sections of them stopped working. You definitely need to get on fixing that sometime soon man. I feel ya on the being lazy part though lol.

I got mine from ozium's blowout sale and wrapped them on the bezel when I had them apart so hopefully they will last. They look better at night, then the in the pic I got.

Originally Posted by Vic28

Nice to find another 5speed on the forums.

But my S/C lol..

I'll get there one day

[That01Olds]

Originally Posted by Papa Rad17

I got mine from ozium's blowout sale and wrapped them on the bezel when I had them apart so hopefully they will last. They look better at night, then the in the pic I got.

I'll get there one day

Here's hoping man, but it sounds like you shouldn't have any problems with them. I will wait to see pics at night and with the HID's before I make my final opinion lol because they may like you said look better once that's done. I still do like Tim's setup though either way. Other than that man like I said the car looks good and I'm glad that you were finally able to find the Alero you wanted. It took some patience and searching, but you finally got it. So congrats on that man!

[Papa Rad17]

Drove the car home today. It has been parked since monday working on the new rack/pinion and tie rod ends. The old one had about an inch of play, the severity of the damage didnt show its bug ugly head until we got into it. Its back together now though, finally! A friend of mine owns parts of a local hardware store and is opening up tomorrow so I can get a better fitting, higher grade bolt for the drivers side mount. Monday it will get aligned and a power steering flush. So happy to have it back. Check out how messed up the old rack and pinion was! you can hardly tell with my crappy phone pictures but the bolts threads are filled with material it had chewed out. We had to cut it off and fix the damage to the mount. been a mess but it lives again!

[sleepyalero]

Beautiful lol

[negolien]

nice grats Papa.

[Papa Rad17]

New grade 8 bolt. finally drove it around for the day and despite terrible alignment its already much better. and thats getting fixed tomorrow

[smccarthy1883]

Nice ride man. I'm also doing the wrap around LEDs soon. The ones I got were switchbacks. Hopefully won't be a huge PITA to wire em up.

[Papa Rad17]

They look much better with with HID's

[Papa Rad17]

Alignment done. check. Nice to have it driving strait and not making strange metal on metal sounds. I put my foot into it for the first time in quite a while it seems like. I still love my fast and furious 4 banger. A lady in at the shop was complaining about having to replace things on her 02 intrepid this year. Im like look, its crazy but thats a 12 year old car now, its not still 'new'. Its had miles put on it, bumps hit, tires squealed, im sure if you've taken care of it it'll going maybe another 10 years, but your going to pay for the maintenance of a vehicle maintaining your 12 year old car, or in what loose buying a new one every few years. I'll take my 12 year old car.

[Babyblue]

great job!

[Papa Rad17]

Put in some new plugs, boots, valve cover gasket set, cleaned/painted the valve cover and bracket holding the throttle cables. Also got the front end of the exhaust done a while ago to go with the muffler and tips. http://www.aleromod.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38107 Caliper bracket bolts are getting drilled out next week and the recall taken care of. Will finally have baby blues old drilled/slotted rotors installed, new pads all the way around, and black calipers with red brackets. Still so much more to do..

[sleepyalero]

Let'er rip tater chip!!!!!

LMFAO!