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VN Calais 5 Speed - Slammed on Sigz, Big Sound System, Pearl Paintjob!

Ando227

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How hard was it to change over the Dash lights to blue? I would of thought theres heaps of cables everywhere ect.

I'd also like to change the black dash look to a white.

Great lookin Calais btw.
 

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If you buy a white dash, they normally have blue plastic in the dial faces, so you don't need to stuff around with the LEDs not that hard but yeah. With the LEDs in the screens 88greenVN helped me with that a fair bid. The steroe and climate control is all out doing the climate control waiting on bulbs and my headunit stoped working for some reason lol
 

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As I will for you, I will most likely notice you because we have the same colour grill and when i get around to putting it on, hood scoop lol.

haha i have the calais grille on now, not the letterbox style one. and the hood scoops gone. infact i have the entire bonnet with hoodscoop still attached for sale if you want it :)
 

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Bumpers resprayed and group a bonnet scoop fitted. Heres some pics.

Bumpers off..
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Done and No. Plate covers on..
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And my favorite pic..
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Well, its more the prep than what we used, We sanded down all that crickley stuff thats on there normal calais bumpers as I didn't like it anyway. Then we sprayed it with coat after coat of this 2 in 1 spray putty pimer sanding inbetween coats and then the final coat with a nice coat of asteroid grey and and clear coat after that. We didn't use presure backs as we have a fairly decent compressor and a moderately price gun. Its well worth doing, next up is the side parts because there is a noticeable difference now lol.
 

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Okay so I finally got around to putting them bonnet struts I've had lying around, I installed my new tb(not successfully I might add -.-) and I put on my JC sticker =D
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Also here a pic of the back end after the bumper and garnish job. I'm very happy with it, actually.
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