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Old May 31, 2007 | 11:53 AM
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Originally Posted by rayy
They did get back to me, but it was just too much trouble for me to go through all of crap they wanted me to do. I had too much going on at the time with finals & family things. I can deal with it for now. I guess when it really gets to me, I'll fork out the money & buy the inners separately. And yeah, it is DIY chrome grill. I followed GATO's DIY. Although one thing that I would have to add is to let the stripper sit a little longer, about 5-7 minutes or maybe more. When I did it, I was so scared that it would strip the chrome off too. But I had to let it sit longer.

Thanks everyone for the compliments. Hopefully when I do get a garage, I can fix up all the door dings & bumper scratches. Living in NYC is hard for your car.
Just curious, what did they want you to do? I had some problems with my tailligts from them, and I shipped them back to them. It's been almost a month since they sent me back replacements because they said they were backordered for a while. I should've just returned them and bought them again. Would've been much faster. The DIY chrome grill looks great on the 01+ grill. I might have to get my hands on one. BTW, I did the chrome DIY on my 98 grill and the paint is really hard to get off on those. I used the stripper to get most of it off, then rubbed Goof Off by hand to get the rest off. Still can't get into the corners.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisES
Just curious, what did they want you to do? I had some problems with my tailligts from them, and I shipped them back to them. It's been almost a month since they sent me back replacements because they said they were backordered for a while. I should've just returned them and bought them again. Would've been much faster. The DIY chrome grill looks great on the 01+ grill. I might have to get my hands on one. BTW, I did the chrome DIY on my 98 grill and the paint is really hard to get off on those. I used the stripper to get most of it off, then rubbed Goof Off by hand to get the rest off. Still can't get into the corners.
Uh... they asked me to send them pictures of the lights and the box. I did that and even with the solid evidence that they are different, they wanted me to send everything back so that they can see if they sent the wrong item. The invoice says the correct item was sent, it was obviously a human error. So they think that I'm trying to scam them. They said that if they determined that they didn't make a mistake, they'd have to reship the same item back to me & that I'd have to pay for the shipping. yeah... the corners were really hard to get. I actually didn't get all the corners but who'll actually see the corners that are on the inside of the grill. You should try to buy an '01+ grill in the classified. I'm sure someone who bought a new grill put theirs up for sale.
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Old May 31, 2007 | 01:58 PM
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Good job rayy, car's blingin
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Old May 31, 2007 | 02:32 PM
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Very nice
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Old May 31, 2007 | 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by tmf2004
All the elbow grease paid off.. Nice job..
haha... forgot to mention that I used a porter cable for the first time too.
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