fatcatbestcat
Professional Hack
- Joined
- Oct 1, 2019
- Location
- Mississauga, ON (Canada)
With the grille out, I could immediately see some paint anomalies and obvious patches to the radiator support. Check out this panel that was screwed to and oversprayed white.
The whole core support on the front of the car is bent and tweaked in some unnatural ways. It becomes more apparent in future photos.
Of course, just about everything broke as I was taking it out. The really big pain was a stripped bolt on the passenger side headlight housing, which I had to mangle with a stepped drill to get off the car. This is the point of no return.
There's a lot more related photos, but I'll spare you the details. The new headlight and corner light on the passenger's side went in, no problems at all. Second-guessing myself, I threw the battery back in to make sure it worked before I started screwing around with the driver's side.
Now, at this point on that particular weekend, a snowstorm blew in. 70 km/h wind and sideways snow blowing right into my face. I was getting very frustrated with the driver's side, and started running into a lot of hackery, presumably done by the same people that welded that patch onto the core support. I apparently stopped taking pictures, I was so irritated by the seemingly infinite line of tape splices holding all the wiring together on that side. I ended up having to cut the connector off my new corner light since there wasn't even anything to plug into on that side of the car.
No matter what, I just couldn't make the indicator work properly, or really at all. I tried everything, checked voltages, and continuity and it should have worked, but didn't. Finally, I pulled the bulb out and tested it, and it was dead. Thanks, Skandix.
Went to Walmart to grab a new bulb, and then started working again in the dark, in the freezing cold the night before a work day. I made damn sure it would work before trying to wire it up again.
...to be continued.
The whole core support on the front of the car is bent and tweaked in some unnatural ways. It becomes more apparent in future photos.
Of course, just about everything broke as I was taking it out. The really big pain was a stripped bolt on the passenger side headlight housing, which I had to mangle with a stepped drill to get off the car. This is the point of no return.
There's a lot more related photos, but I'll spare you the details. The new headlight and corner light on the passenger's side went in, no problems at all. Second-guessing myself, I threw the battery back in to make sure it worked before I started screwing around with the driver's side.
Now, at this point on that particular weekend, a snowstorm blew in. 70 km/h wind and sideways snow blowing right into my face. I was getting very frustrated with the driver's side, and started running into a lot of hackery, presumably done by the same people that welded that patch onto the core support. I apparently stopped taking pictures, I was so irritated by the seemingly infinite line of tape splices holding all the wiring together on that side. I ended up having to cut the connector off my new corner light since there wasn't even anything to plug into on that side of the car.
No matter what, I just couldn't make the indicator work properly, or really at all. I tried everything, checked voltages, and continuity and it should have worked, but didn't. Finally, I pulled the bulb out and tested it, and it was dead. Thanks, Skandix.
Went to Walmart to grab a new bulb, and then started working again in the dark, in the freezing cold the night before a work day. I made damn sure it would work before trying to wire it up again.
...to be continued.