kos

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I've heard mixed reviews about CP as well. Also heard they're a really small operation, but customer service is customer service, no matter how big or small. They tend to get some some good stuff, so hoping it's just isolated incidents.

Romanova

Less than 36 hours from Osaka Japan to Cypress Texas. Pretty impressed. Rims are in good shape, one has some light curb rash and they all have a few nicks in the paint. Will probably just mount them up and then get them refinished this summer. Need to clean off the wheel weights and the old adhesive and then seal the barrels. Will also be ordering spacers for the front and back.

kos

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Those look great!

Romanova

Found a local place that will fix up the curb rash for $160 (two wheels) so I'm taking them down on Monday to get them fixed up. Very excited to get these on the car.

NLLex

Good Job. Do you allready have tyres? I would suggest the new generation with Noise Shield Technologie! They are 50% more silent then any other normal tyre.

Romanova

JDM fog lights are in. To remove the fogs, you have to remove the bumper, which was easier than I thought it would be. You might be able to get them out from below but I doubt it. Removing the bumper was probably a 30 minute job, working slow. For the JDM fogs, I ended up not wiring in the second bulb. I really didn't want them as turn signals since we already have turn signals in the main housing and I didn't want them as a city light to detract from the actual fog light itself. I mean, I was mainly going for the yellow capsule look, which I achieved. Thanks to @onthelo for the bulb suggestion. I'm running Cree 9006 5k LED bulbs and the color in conjunction with the capsule is spot on. Can't wait to get another picture when it gets a bit darker.

Rims are up next and should be done by next Friday. I found Project Kics spacers on YAJ, so I will be doing the 15mm front / 25mm rear and will be ordering those soon. I also want to address the brake fluid and do a drain and fill on the transmission and then just start driving it a bit more.

Peacebay

Looking clean man! Just curious if I might be missing something -- why would you need to remove the bumper to change the fogs? When I changed my fog bulbs I just removed the wheel liners and had more than enough room to do anything I wanted with the fogs. But I also didn't attempt to remove the housings so there's probably something I didn't see maybe?

Romanova

The housing itself is super snug due to the way that it is designed. It may come out with the bumper in place but I highly doubt it.

YannG

Wow that was super quick! those BBS's look awesome...

Good work with the JDM fogs! they look great...makes me want a pair !

I've been wanting to purchase items on YAJ but never fully committed, seems complicated and after reading reviews online a lot of the times the items once arrived arent in the condition they were described/advertised...

Romanova

I will say that unless the item has been new, I've been disappointed in some way by everything I've purchased so far. The pictures aren't high quality and the description is vague some times. Still, it's the only way to get some of these parts so you have to roll the dice.

kos

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It's really not too bad with the options like Buyee and Croooober, or if you use a private broker like Jesse Streeter.

I'd say my experiences have been similar, although I've found a few gems.

Romanova the capsule looks great, eagerly awaiting nighttime shots! I'm torn on 3000k or doing 6000k and matching some D2S bulbs from Osram.

Romanova

Was raining, so the car didn't leave the garage.

kos

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Badass. Those look sweet.

Romanova

The two curbed rims are back from repair and look pretty good. The rim faces still have some imperfections, but I was only concerned with the curbage as a few nicks are going to occur during install or as a result of everyday driving. Should be able to get them down to Discount Tire tomorrow and get them mounted up to my existing tires that are currently on my OEM 18s.

Kira X

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Central Pine has some outrageous prices. My sister bought a grille from them and they never shipped it or responded to her messages until she filed a Paypal claim. They offered to ship it after that but she took the refund. I've heard quite a few negative reviews about them but they delete the reviews right away. I always get tempted to order rare parts from them but it's so risky.

I remember Revision Audio had some nice stuff. I've bought some smaller items from him and he shipped them. I keep seeing the Tom's kit pop up but I like the OEM one better. There was a really nice Aimgain kit I saw but it costs as much as a second LS.