Just Picking up my C5
My insurance is 106 dollars a month full coverage. Clean record, good student discount (college), and some other program discounts count a lot. As for the payment: I make 12 dollars an hour at my job and I have zero debt so it's affordable. It's all in what you want.
Originally Posted by Patman
I won't kid you, getting rid of the moldings takes a little bit of work! I have a friend with a detail shop who offered to do it for me for $20, but it ended up taking 4 hours! (with me helping too)
Removing them was not the difficult part, all you need to do is take some fishing line (or dental floss) and put it behind the molding and use a sawing motion. But the difficult part is that a lot of adhesive gets left behind on the car. That needs to be removed very slowly with your fingers and thumb, then you clean the surface with various chemicals (I'm not sure what my friend used, he tried a bunch of stuff from his shop)
But the end result was worth it for me, I found the car looks much sleeker without the moldings.
Removing them was not the difficult part, all you need to do is take some fishing line (or dental floss) and put it behind the molding and use a sawing motion. But the difficult part is that a lot of adhesive gets left behind on the car. That needs to be removed very slowly with your fingers and thumb, then you clean the surface with various chemicals (I'm not sure what my friend used, he tried a bunch of stuff from his shop)
But the end result was worth it for me, I found the car looks much sleeker without the moldings.
It's not that hard at all. The fishing line is a good way to start...then you can use bug and tar remover to get the glue off. Piece of cake!
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Originally Posted by HolyShiznit
My insurance is 106 dollars a month full coverage. Clean record, good student discount (college), and some other program discounts count a lot. As for the payment: I make 12 dollars an hour at my job and I have zero debt so it's affordable. It's all in what you want.
i'm envious of this, i didn't get my first vette until i was 29 - second one (at the same time) at 32, sold those, bought my third and fourth (in my sig) at 34!
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From: Phoenix AZ
Originally Posted by CHRISPY
Nice car!! I personally like the side moldings
i think they look sharp.
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