We thought about selling this, but after looking at other used car prices and thinking about it, I decided to do a mid-life rehab for the Wife's car instead. It has held up extremely well, mostly due to the quality of materials & components, but after ~9 years and 42K miles, despite my rather compulsive maintenance, it needed some work.
-refinished the front lower grill which takes a beating on these cars,
-new mats,
-touched up the upper rockers and interior where heels tear it up getting in and out,
-new shift knob,
-thresholds,
-removed the dated CD holder and added another storage slot (used to be just a cell in a cradle and one in the slot..now each has a cell, b'berry, iPhone, etc....)
-completely and properly de-instaled the circa 2003 Nokia car 'phone set up..bit of a pain w/ all the speaker and antenna wiring in the headliner...whatever glue held the external antenna and interior portion on was still holding on pretty darn good, taped over I removed the wire taps,
-new rear emblem, snagged and bent my old one while waxing,
-replaced the throttle body mount & spark plugs,
-Conti DW's,
-replaced or refinished trim under the nose & in front of the rear wheels,
-new Becker head unit w/ iPod lead hidden and run to the console glovebox, thought I'd outgrown replacing stereos
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-replaced all the original lights w/ the later OEM clear ones,
Pretty amazing what a little bit of $, a fair amout of hours and a lot of effort wil do.
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-refinished the front lower grill which takes a beating on these cars,
-new mats,
-touched up the upper rockers and interior where heels tear it up getting in and out,
-new shift knob,
-thresholds,
-removed the dated CD holder and added another storage slot (used to be just a cell in a cradle and one in the slot..now each has a cell, b'berry, iPhone, etc....)
-completely and properly de-instaled the circa 2003 Nokia car 'phone set up..bit of a pain w/ all the speaker and antenna wiring in the headliner...whatever glue held the external antenna and interior portion on was still holding on pretty darn good, taped over I removed the wire taps,
-new rear emblem, snagged and bent my old one while waxing,
-replaced the throttle body mount & spark plugs,
-Conti DW's,
-replaced or refinished trim under the nose & in front of the rear wheels,
-new Becker head unit w/ iPod lead hidden and run to the console glovebox, thought I'd outgrown replacing stereos
,-replaced all the original lights w/ the later OEM clear ones,
Pretty amazing what a little bit of $, a fair amout of hours and a lot of effort wil do.
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