Strips Or No Strips?

[streetracer_starlet]

Wot do you lot rekon i should do with my rubbing strips? They need to go (there the ones with the orange flame things) but wot should i do ??

1. Totally remove them and leave it that way (like glanza)?

2. Get them colour coded?

3. Paint them black to match my wheels?

4. Leave them in granny mode ?

I am thinking of totally removing them but i think the car will look to bare,the glanzas dont have any but they have skirts to take your eye away from it !

Wotever happens,its happinin this weekend coz im sick of my mates calling them "tigar strips" or the "candle car".

thanx... ***** i've wrote a small book.

[starletsr]

u got a pic?

[streetracer_starlet]

Not a "proper" member yet so no pics (going gold next week).My car is identical to firthy's apart from wheels and obviously strips.

[starletsr]

cos i have no idea what strips ur on about thats all...

[Toby]

I painted mine black but my cars black so it looks ok, although my paint work is terrible, little stone chips everywhere and a few dents, although i have no idea how they got there, ones on the roof??? Gonna get a respray when i have the money. Gonna get anthracite (dark grey ) to be a bit different

[starletsr]

u meaning the side plastic trim yeah? oh i get wot ur on about now :P

[streetracer_starlet]

There like the strips on your car (sr) but have 3-4 orange flame type decals on them,i tried peeling them of but there laquered over!!! A smart colour is sable grey (new mr2)

[starletsr]

oh i c, what color is ur car then? i think i know what u mean by the stickers, r they the sportif ones?

[Yaris_Tsport]

Get rid of them i did it looks much better now takes a bit of time to pull the glue off but well worth it

[streetracer_starlet]

The cars red. yeah there like sportif ones only orange. my cars a cd.

So wot u think then?

[Toby]

Im sure when you take them off there are indentations behind, i.e its not flush?? but maybe im wrong, anybody done it?

[starletsr]

try getting rid of them, u can then decide to color code them later.

[Yaris_Tsport]

on the front and rear bumper there is a groove on the corners which just carrys on down the side of the car. mine is a sportif red.

[starletsr]

u can remove them, but its not smooth, here is a pic of starletnaths sr with it removed... hope you dont mind Nath

i reckon it looks ok

[Toby]

Oh and how do you put pics on toc gallery? forgotten

[starletsr]

Does ur strips look like this?

[starletsr]

U cant post pics unless ur a paying as a member.

But u can use www.photobucket.com like i do.

[streetracer_starlet]

yeah my car looks like that.as i said im going gold next week so ill get all the pics up then ! i think i've decided ......im gonna take them off,i know theres a small recess and as sr said if it looks crap i can always stick em back on !

[starletsr]

good luck with the process.

[Yaris_Tsport]

be careful when pulling them off because mine snapped in half when pulling them off. you have been warned. good luck

[starletsr]

long time no see starletpower, how r u?

[Yaris_Tsport]

pretty good just sorted one of my door cards in my car which looks pretty good. but modding is slow due to headunit breaking. new alpine in there now much better. How r u????

[Yaris_Tsport]

heres my starlet without strips

[starletsr]

aaawww looking good, i've been ok, nothing has changed with my little car, was looking for a strut brace for it, but someone else suggested seats... hmmm way too expensive i think.

My car is now sitting on my drive looking kinda grey color, its so dirty and i havent got the other hand to wash it lol.

[geocool69]

alright starlet power...your cars starting to take shape man..

looks realy nice.. when its droped yopu will totaly apereceate it alot more in terms of handling and looks.

its good to start seing everyones cars in there avatar.