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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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Just looking for other peoples thoughts on this.
Smoothed and body color painted wiper cowls? Thinking about doing it, but have never seen it before. Any one ever seen this? thoughts about it?
I have one of them smoothed and painted LPM and I have to say i think its great looking.

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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 11:31 AM
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can you post pics,sounds like a good idea
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 08:50 PM
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Here are a few pics. Not a real major thing, but the stock color for these is black and they have that textured finish. the passenger side one has already been smoothed, painted and cleared. Just have to wet sand it now. The driver side still has to be smoothed and repainted. I did painted that one first to see what it would look like painted, then decided to smooth them
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 08:51 PM
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I like the black with my NBM....Looks okay...1 less thing to peel/scratch.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:04 PM
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Yea I guess it depends on what color car it is. On a dark color car it would not show as well
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:06 PM
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Looks good, wouldn't help with my setup though..
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:20 PM
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I dont know what I think of it. I guess I prefer the stock textured plastic
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:28 PM
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I like it, but damnit, I was thinking of that **** last week thinking i was the first one to think of that. it really all has been done before....
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 09:29 PM
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It would probably look sick as hell on your car if you do it make sure to put some pics up
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 10:22 PM
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I think it looks kinda ghetto in my opinion... But then again, that's probably because of the fact I know what it's suppossed to look like If I didn't know it could be pulled off as factory looking.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 11:13 PM
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I would be satisfied just applying some kind of durable clear over the stock panels to make them shiny as opposed to the dull color they are stock.
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Old Oct 10, 2007 | 11:35 PM
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I like the stock look better.
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 05:09 PM
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ya stock look... wouldn really stand out on alot of cars in my opinion....
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Old Oct 11, 2007 | 08:55 PM
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You guys prefer that dry black look that doesn't match anything else on the car?
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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 08:27 AM
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ttt come on people all of these views and only 9 votes
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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 10:31 AM
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I like it. After seein' those pics I definately have to get around to it. So many projects so little time and $$. Swat
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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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deff takes more time than money. Started with 60 grit to get rid of the texture and worked up to 300 to make it smooth. Then a few coats of filler primmer. Wet sanded with 600, then a few coats of color, then wet sanded again. Finished up with a few coats of clear. Still have to do the final wet sand of the clear, but it looks so much better in person than it does in the pics
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Old Oct 13, 2007 | 07:47 PM
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looks good+ defferent. but not sure how it would look on my white
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Old Oct 14, 2007 | 05:01 PM
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yea there are some colors that it might not look great on painted the body color, but you could always smooth it out and paint it gloss black or satin black. I really think anything is better than that textured gray that the factory gave us
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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 06:11 PM
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Stock on this one...
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