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plof from the writing team is about to go on vacation for a week and Honda

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Canada has graciously offered to lend him a 2024 Civic touring now of course

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he doesn't get to keep it unless he spends a lot of money and plof here does

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not like to spend money unless it's on his PC but that got us thinking now that

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he's added taste to Modern features like remote keyless entry power Windows and a

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quiet comfortable ride it's going to be such a disappointment for him to come

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back to his reliable box

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thankfully Alex here has generously agreed to help me bring his old Civic up

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to speed by the time he returns though

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you can't have something for nothing and to keep the rest of the company from

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getting jealous his upgrade is going to come with a catch oh boy these are

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ARM and the interest on it demanding one of your legs these days there's a pretty

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good chance that you're going to go straight from the online configurator to

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figuring out how to keep your beater alive for a couple more years but that

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doesn't mean that you need to live without modern amenities last time we

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added Android auto and a backup camera to ploof 2004 Civic and this time we're

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going to be adding new headlights acoustic dampening power Windows and

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remote keyless entry all for less than

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one monthly payment on a 2024 model at

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that budget things are obviously going to get a little bit DIY and janky and

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we're going to get to that in a moment but first we want to make his old Civic

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smell like the new Civic it's about to become with a cabin air filter if you

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don't remember the last time you replaced one of these by the way do it

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now while the exact mechanism for this might vary a little bit it's pretty

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standard to find the filter inside your glove box or rather in behind it let me

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just get this out ah there whoa hey and all we got to do is open this little

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panel boy here and Boop ew is that a bug

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how did chunks this big get in it though to be clear I'm not judging him I don't

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think I ever replace this on my old Civic with all of that said the

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activated carbon filters that we went with were only $13 which is a pretty

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small price to pay to not be inhaling that diesel particulate from the coal

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roller in front of you next up is something you might not think of as a

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tech upgrade unless you watched the recent veritasium video on the

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development of the blue LED that's right headlights now our first plan was to

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just buy some cheap LED lamps Chuck them in there Polish the housing and

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realistically that would have made a world of difference but it also would

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have risked blinding other drivers on the road and we really didn't want to

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recommend that so we're going to upgrade to some Zen on lights instead the only

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challenge is that in order to use these we needed to remove the front bumper in

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order to remove the existing headlights we were concerned that would take a very

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long time but as it turns out it was held on by two bolts and a bunch of zip

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ties thank you pl's car's previous owner

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what we need to do now that it's all taken apart is remove the lenses from

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the lights using this box and a heat gun which has been sitting here for about 15

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minutes now I think let's see if the adhesive is sufficiently loosened shout

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out retrofit lab by the way for these replacement lights these look flipping

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like Space Age Technology compared to what's in there hello how you

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doing woo this was the point where we

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realized that our projector lenses were for a JDM Civic so we ended up needing

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to modify the housing slightly with a step drill the cover is also so needed a

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little bit of trimming but we expected that once we knew what we were doing the

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second conversion only took about 15 minutes after getting the lens off and

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looked a little something like this it's pretty sick oh my

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God now it's time to turn our attention to the oldfashioned window rollers and

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the lack of power locks and while we're in this panel anyway is a perfect time

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to throw in some sound deadening for about 100 bucks in an

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afternoon of work you can sound deaden your your trunk and doors which makes a

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huge difference to the comfort of your ride the best part is that not only is

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this going to help with road noise but it'll help improve the performance of

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your existing audio system without needing to perform any other upgrades

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and somewhat unintuitively it'll help improve the performance of your HVAC

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system because it happens to be an insulator Dynamat is a really great

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premium option but Jake and Alex have both used cheaper stuff in their car and

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found that it works nearly as well for about half of the price so we're going

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to be using this mat and the first thing we need to do is clean any surface where

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we're planning to apply it using isopropyl alcohol and a rag or in our

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case quite a few Rags because pl's trunk was quite dirty next up figure out where

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you're going to apply it if you have an unlimited budget then by all means put

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it everywhere but otherwise Alex recommends just kind

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of giving her some little knocks and finding the spots oh yeah where it

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really resonates and focusing on those first we pee F the adhesive backing off

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just be careful with the aluminum can cat you and I guess it doesn't have to

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be like perfect perfect right I mean it's pl's car we put this boy in here

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and give her a little rolly roll to make sure she's stuck down in tricky spots I

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like just the back of a trim removal tool it's worth noting that getting into

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the trunk to do this is entirely

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optional now it's time to address one of pl's biggest pain points with this car

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the lack of power locks and we're going to be using this kit from audiovox that

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attaches to the locking mechanism or at least that was the plan my notes

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say honestly kind of janky seems like it'll work cost $100 we CT scanned it we

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CT scanned it and I don't really know how much I want to use it anymore like

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if you look first of all everything in there's plastic mhm and uh this is the

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shaft that does the actuating yes as we go through it here o it's got air

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bubbles in it 40% of its air we have seen in some reviews that they have a

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bit of problems with failing it's pretty clear why the installation at least on

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the front doors is a literal nightmare to deal with you'll have to stick it in

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behind this panel here and we got somehow bolted into here and then attach

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this Rod to the stock Rod here so you can retain the stock locking mechanism

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at the same time which will require a bunch of custom bending to the rod that's attached to the actuator a lot of

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work for something that's potentially going to break within a couple of months

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so the proper way to do this would have been to just go to the junkyard and get

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the door cards and basically the entire door from a Civic that has Central

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locking and power Windows but that was going to be kind of expensive so that's

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why we wanted to try and do it the cheap way which has burned us do you think you

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can do it oh yeah it can be done how much overtime do you want to pay us how

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bad are the back doors are the back doors back doors are dead simple it's just the front I'm leaning try and if it

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kind of sucks then maybe he should have paid for his car to be fixed by someone

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qualified or just paid for a better car I mean all of this seems like plof

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problems right now the other big thing we promised plof was power Windows so

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we'll show you that on the other door but which um this is what like just

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Vapor Barrier yeah it's a vapor barrier so it kind of keeps moisture in the door

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not in your car we're just pulling it

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off like yes but at the same time like

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look at how much is left of this one oh it's been cut yeah this car's had a lot

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of people in it already with that out of the way it's time to look at our power

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window kit which we got off Amazon for 100 bucks it comes with a variety of

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different toothed gears you pick the one that works with your car door and then

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insert it into the end put in a little locking screw and find a spot for

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it

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somewhere now we're at the point in the video where Alex's expertise ends and

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mine begins it's time to paint I do have

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enough expertise to know that this is not prepped well enough no it's really

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not this scuff sand is good enough to make sure that our primer coat is going

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to adhere to the previous paint but it is not enough that we're going to get a

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perfect you know mirror finish on the

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car realistically though it's going to be better than what he started with yeah

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has not hard another thing that Alex knows very well is that the first step

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of painting is to put that painting equipment away and focus on prep even

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though we don't need this to be the most perfect job in the world we don't want

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to paint over his tail lights so with a combination of masking tape paper and

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plastic will be blocking off all the areas that we don't want to paint now

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this is not the right tape for this I asked for contouring tape I ended up

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with this so enjoy your paint job Nick

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also uh we were planning on taking these out but they are also among the things

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that are non original and they are just silicone in there all to hell it's

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horrible they are not coming out I think one of the most important things for

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painting is accepting early on that it isn't going to be a perfect job when you

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do that though you just you know completely different set of expect

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ations it's more

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fun now I'm sure at this point at least a few of you have noticed that we are

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standing next to a DIY paint booth

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you're probably wondering why we're not using it well in a perfect world we

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would I've got a HEPA filter in here and positive air pressure that prevents any

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sho from landing on the piece of work that's being painted while it's drying

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which results in a much better looking job unfortunately

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this is for my motorcycle it is not car sized so sorry bloof hey at least we

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didn't do it outside like we were planning yeah are you guys ready for the

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moment of truth I think so how many feet

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feet cuz it's not going to be a 5ft job 12 that's pretty good I was expecting 20

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this morning I'm feeling better we're referring of course to the distance from

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which you'll be able to make out the obvious imperfections in the workmanship

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I mean overall not too bad but there

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there are going to be some flies in this ointment 1.8 to 2 mm

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nozzle good gravy this stuff must go on

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thick hold on let me have a look at my primer screw it we're using your primer

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this is my primer okay damn boy she's thick it might be a

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20ft jump this like high Build primer is something that I have never used before

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and have not researched at all because for my project I'm doing all the

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finishing first before I Prime now most of my painting experience is painting

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houses not cars this is my first time spraying a car so if you're an expert

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thanks for your comment telling me all the things that I could do better when I do my bike I'll be sure to do all those

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things all right let's see how it

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goes oh boy well it's a good thing PL

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doesn't care about his car looking good I wish I'd used the other primer but

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we're committed now

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well even if it's not going to be pretty it's not going to come off so that's

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something all right whether it's the settings or the material we're using or

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the technique it's not that even but on

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the plus side it's a product that'll adhere better than the last time we

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painted a Civic and it's probably more

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even than rolling it on at least our customer is not

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picky we're back from luses and the paint job looks uh better than I

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expected after the first layer of primer at least but we have a lot to do first

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of all secure the light ballast aim the headlights the locks we need to get

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those working right now they are just not working at all but the two systems

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individually are working I don't know we have an electrical engineer here we also

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need to clean up the wiring install the back seat top up the oil do the door

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cards trunk liner the other stuff that needs to go into the trunks the rear

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lights those need to be hooked back up random trim pieces those all need to get

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on outside trim needs to go on hub caps ensure that it won't catch on fire just

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you know do a little look and make sure that everything is fused properly and a

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bonus eqing the stereo plof we'll see

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you soon

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I am nervous but I am excited tell me when oh my God what an absolute

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unit can I look yep you can look

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what it's beautiful isn't it I love purple how did you oh my god purple and

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gold flake that's amazing I thought it was going to be like pink and green or

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something I love how textured this is too what did you guys use we got some

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filler primer yeah and the filler primer you're supposed to to use 20 psi of line

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pressure okay and Linus only has

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nine so that's why it's textured you know what it adds to it

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yeah did you look here ooh they look

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much more clear than they usually work beyond that look in oh the hid Zeon Zeon

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what right are these things going to get so I can be like the on the other side

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of the road that blind me I can blind them back no we just aimed them like up

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no down you I want to blind people okay well yeah

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that's good you should calibrate them I mean all right I got Racing Stripes oh

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yeah where's the amazing look at this wa

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it can lock and unlock okay I'm going to try it the locks worked what the it's

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all four too yeah so now when like some

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spooky homeless guy walks by I can just lock all my doors yeah probably I I

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don't know how much I trust it if I'm honest yeah oh my God you actually I

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mean it's look it's very slow to go up yeah we need to grease it a bit okay but

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but it works this much better okay so that's how it could be amazing do you

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want to open up the trunk and just have a little look sure what's in the trunk why not much all of the panels it's all

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dyn what killat we're cheap killat we're cheap all right let's take her for a

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ride and see if you can notice any nvh difference oh my God okay it's hard

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because I haven't driven in it almost like 3 weeks how does it compare to the

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24 Civic it's actually pretty similar and I thought that that sounded a lot

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better than this thing so Kudos it seems

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to have worked it'll probably be more noticeable when you're on like a slightly rougher road yeah or even just

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like the highway and I'm doing like 100 or something like that I am genuinely

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like thrilled honestly I thought for sure it was going

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to be like a hot pink and like a lime green so honestly I love purple this

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feels this is great it Sparkles so much too does it really I'm excited this is

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the time I've seen it in the sun and it's great it's beautiful what a

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magnificent Beast you guys have created with what we've done I'd say those power

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Windows super easy they just worked and

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they weren't super hard to install I would do that those locks oh my God I

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hate them and I think they're going to just stop working at some point in the near future don't do that Dynamat just

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do it and this paint job even though it was two car payments instead of the one

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for the rest of the stuff what Man worth it it looks amazing I have zero

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complaints you know what everyone people saying stuff like oh you're going to

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hate it blah blah blah have me worried but uh no you guys crushed it the

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headlights you almost forgot about the headlights they look amazing well I don't know yet but one is dark out now

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I'll be the one blinding people just like this blinding segue to our

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