try not mentioning it to people when you show the car and see if anyone notices on their own. i'm just curious because my friend had them on his car and i took it for a spin and did not even notice he had them till he pointed it out to me 4 months later.
For the record, i'm very pleased with them. They're really eye catching and they will get alot more attention than you all would think. My interior is a good conversation starter anyway, so of course I'm opening the door alot. I've been asked by at least 5 different girls if they could sit in it when I go around to the hangouts on wedneday nights. I'm actually surprised by how many know so much about Preludes and know the interior is the SIR interior.
You should've just stuck them to the door. That way, you wouldn't have to open up every time you wanted to score some fly *****es.
omg, this thread keeps getting better/worse. One of the reasons I was so harsh on the ridiculous purchase price is because I knew they were just stick ons. They are no different than some of the other ebay pieces out there except they say "prelude" on them.
Compared to all the fancy door sills out there, miata, NSX, s2k, etc, these things are extremely cheap. And although I might spend a couple hundred on them if I had the extra cash, I would never spend 600+ because they quite simply are just not worth that.
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I don't think they're that cheap. They are stainless steel and had some definite heft to them. At least they're not plastic with paint that tries to make it look like metal (like how I originally thought) I know that we are all chiding on the fact they're a stick on (not paste?) but honda has used stick on for other OEM pieces as well. Like their carbon fiber/woodgrain center dash kit piece for example.
If it is not a place that will see much wear and tear, then why not? Not everything has to be over-engineered. Once they were stuck on, the fitment was better than I thought it would be.
Yeah, I've been reading since this thread first started, I am surprised that I didn't get that at first, I'm the fool for that, sorry.
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..............Like their carbon fiber/woodgrain center dash kit piece for example.
Oh man, you guys with CF INTERIOR TRIM (!!) are sooooooo cool. I mean, c'mon, how cool is switching out cheap plastic parts for CARBON FIBER. I mean seriously, to all who buys CF interior ****, how useless can it get? What a waste...
...Now I'm just goin' off on everybody that buys stupid **** for their prelude, but you are special, because you spent $620(...and don't you forget it) . Sorry, went over the top. Again...
Look man, I don't think you are stupid like everyone else(apparently), I just think you made a terrible financial decision, on your part(which is fine, as long as it's your decision). ...And about the glue on sheit, geeez, these honda guys were really out to make oem fans look like total douchebags, I mean, I can just see them in Japan sitting around a table discussing...."I wonder how foolishly loyal out customers are???....(another says)...I bet They are stupid enough to buy a piece of etched aluminum(it's steel?) for
$200+...." .....I bet they called that guy a ****ing moron........................and guess what......................(they probably also discussed what other useless materials they can make interior trim pieces out of, that they can sell as "different" after market....one said CF, "its the same thing, but has little lines running across, all the stupid kids are all over it nowaday")
Blacklude1 could translate your english to asian for you
Yes, they're stainless steel. No they're not aluminum.
Fine, go ahead and rant all you want. It's a nice item to have, it completes the interior like I said. Why go halfway and skimp out on the complete thing in my opinion? This ties it all together.
You can't argue that I haven't done so much to the rest of the car that I am literally running out of things to do to it. All the big things I have to do on it in the future will have to work with my timetable of getting redeployed to Iraq again. When that happens, then the tranny swap with LSD will come into play as well as n2o and methanol injection. Those are going to be expensive, yes, but in reality, the downtime it would "cost" me (more than money) make them impractical to do right now.
I'm glad "The best *insert word* in the world" has become a household word here on the forum, negative publicity is still publicity right? But you can't deny that what this car started as and what it will become doesn't demonstrate the versatility of this platform. And with that, people can look at it and decide which parts they'd like to get and which they don't want to get based on the looks and function of them.
Like I said before, one of my main gripes about this forum was all the cool cars back in the day have had their pictures taken down due to different reasons. Now there are really no real good discussions going on as to parts that we want or are looking at and instead there's just a bunch of haters. This forum stays true when people actually do things to their car. Right now it is just "subsisting" in the O.T. But I think it's users like me, lilbill97, brian1897, conjur, bb6allstar, jflipwa and a couple of others that keep posting up parts they've bought and what they're doing with them that really make PO what is was originally intended to be.
Oh man, you guys with CF INTERIOR TRIM (!!) are sooooooo cool. I mean, c'mon, how cool is switching out cheap plastic parts for CARBON FIBER. I mean seriously, to all who buys CF interior ****, how useless can it get? What a waste...
I like my CF Trim. I don't brag about it, but it looks real clean and understated. I'm sure those that have it on here too will agree.
And as for other stick on items, don't forget the OEM rain visors for the windows and sunroof, alot of people have those on here too. Hell, those were made for really inclimate conditions and I see them lasting really long too.
I like my CF Trim. I don't brag about it, but it looks real clean and understated. I'm sure those that have it on here too will agree.
And as for other stick on items, don't forget the OEM rain visors for the windows and sunroof, alot of people have those on here too. Hell, those were made for really inclimate conditions and I see them lasting really long too.
The OEM Honda kit looks nice yes, but like real CF not even close, I had and there's no chance I'll agree with you that it looked real. Also the JDM Honda Access Visors had clips that held them on not double sided tape.
You're right, I didn't know many people like it, but I still don't and think it is a waste of money. The way I see it, is, if you're gonna spend money on your car, it might as well help it do something its already meant to do, only better....trim doesn't do much, but thats my opinion.
prepreludesh, if I were you, I'd do everything to my car that I want done, then tell everybody, simply, "hey, look at my car, I worked real hard for a long time, and this is what I got, hope you like it"
If you keep starting these stupid threads that you make that naturally attracked negative attention, and keep toting about how much money you spend, you'll never get positive respect-which is the reason you start the thread in the first place. Let people notice all the small **** on their own($620 door sills, sir int.) which you said at some car shows people would by themselves acknowledge your sir int., and stop telling people in your threads..."hey everybody, just in case you missed it, notice how awsome my car is"..
Maybe this isn't your intention, but thats what it sounded like at least at the beginning of this thread, and thats how about 85% of the people that have viewed it see it, and that is most likely why you got all this ****......key words-let people notice your awsome car on their own.
The OEM Honda kit looks nice yes, but like real CF not even close, I had and there's no chance I'll agree with you that it looked real. Also the JDM Honda Access Visors had clips that held them on not double sided tape.
I never said it looked anything like real carbon fiber, you're making up in your head I said that...
And yes they're stainless steel, prove me wrong with a credible source and I'll believe you. They weigh too much to be aluminum for the thickness they are.
I dont have to prove you wrong because its obvious, I'll let you carry on thinking that they're SS so you can prove your awesome knowledge of your own parts to everyone.
You're right, I didn't know many people like it, but I still don't and think it is a waste of money. The way I see it, is, if you're gonna spend money on your car, it might as well help it do something its already meant to do, only better....trim doesn't do much, but thats my opinion.
The CF trim does EXACTLY that. The car's interior was meant to look good, but the trim makes it look even better. Everyone that owns the CF weave interior trim kit owns it for the fact that it looks nice and spruces up the interior, just like the way that prepreludesh has bought the door sills to complete his interior. The big difference though is the fact that the CF kit doesn't cost an exorbitant amount of money, whereas he spent $620 on some door sills. The CF trim kits are VERY popular if you haven't noticed. Also, so many people having it shows that it's pretty worth it..whereas spending from $300 up to $600 for two pieces of aluminum that are barely noticed only when the doors open is pretty outrageous and thus a lot of people don't buy them. To each their own opinion, but think about it as the same concept of buying nice clothes. Wearing nice clothes doesn't do much, but we all would like to look nice wouldn't we?
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is there a magnet test or something? cut a piece of the sill and send it in to have it tested.
Yes and no to the magnet. My dad taught me this one. When I was buying stainless steel exhaust pipe in the mail, I got two different tubes. One was T-409 SS and the other was T-304 SS. (at this point, I thought they were both T-304). He took a magnet and the magnet stuck to the T-409 SS but not to the T-304. When he later looked it up, T-409 is said to be an inferior product to the T-304 SS. It is not as corrosion resistant (which means it will rust in time) and definitely weighs more. So I could do a magnet test, but if it doesn't stick, that's still not saying if it's SS or aluminum.
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. Sorry, went over the top. Again...
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