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Hi guys

Till now i was quite satisfied with the looks of my car but having seen all the wonderful things everyones done to theirs im feeling a bit left out!! :( After alll i am 21. I have the basic version T2 with:

[*]Black wing mirrors and door handles

[*]No alloys - wheelcaps instead

[*]No fog lamps

[*]No spoiler

Would it cost a lot of money to get all the above done? and is it worth it?

Is there a cheaper way about it?!

Appreciate any comments :D

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Hello man, and welcome on TOC!

Why to do so? I think it's better to focus on some more important and good-looking things. Make your car look better than other cars, not the same.

New rims, that could be nice. For example 17" rims with new tyres, about 700 euros. Instead of fog lamps, install DRL LEDs. They can be used every day, look much more cool and won't blind anyone. Spoiler... Maybe, but you will have to pay hundreds and hundreds if you'll buy it from Toyota. Try searching eBay, and you can make the installation yourself, it's easy. Wing mirrors and door handles... Paint them to some extraordinary colour, and choose some detail on your rims which you'll paint to the same colour. For example if you have black car, paint center of the rims with orange. Then to the same with mirrors and door handles + paint your antenna too... That's maybe a bit odd idea, but it just came to my mind :) You can also leave them black, add black rims, window tints etc. Then they will match perfectly without any painting!

Best regards, Alex

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Hi there

Definitely worth shopping around on eBay - got my alloy racing pedals, rear spoiler & twin exhaust from a Toyota dealer on there at half the price!! :thumbsup:

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Cheers

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Hi guz

Thnx for the advice alex. :) Think i will try something new rather than go foe T3 look. I like the idea about tinting the windows and getting some black alloys to go with the mirrors. I got a silver auris like yours. What have you had done to it? Just to giv me a rough idea of costs.Is the silencer easily fitted? Also do you need a slot on the back bumper to allow for it?

And thnx 2 u 2 snugasabug. Ur car looks gr8! Nver thot red could luk tht gud! I will defo chk eBay.

will add pics of my current car soon. Waitin 4 a nice bright day! :D If we ever get 1!!

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Hi guz

Thnx for the advice alex. :) Think i will try something new rather than go foe T3 look. I like the idea about tinting the windows and getting some black alloys to go with the mirrors. I got a silver auris like yours. What have you had done to it? Just to giv me a rough idea of costs.Is the silencer easily fitted? Also do you need a slot on the back bumper to allow for it?

will add pics of my current car soon. Waitin 4 a nice bright day! :D If we ever get 1!!

Yes I think matching the colours would be great. I'm glad that you're interested to try it! You can see the mods made to my car on my Introducing My Auris! -topic.

The silencer was pretty expensive as it's plug&play for Auris. Not difficult to install at all, but it costed me about 400 euros.

If you're interested on some other prices after reading through the list of my mods, don't hesitate to ask me and I will tell you more about the parts and prices :)

Will be waiting for your pics, the weather hasn't been great here neither. Was going to wax my car but it's way too cold :( Have to wait for the next weekend...

Best regards, Alex

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Here is my auris. As you can see its the basic model. Any more recommendations?!! :thumbsup:

Yes, leave it that way, at the moment it looks like any other silver Auris, only it's got some manky bits of black plastic on the backs of the doors !

DD

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Here is my auris. As you can see its the basic model. Any more recommendations?!! :thumbsup:

It looks pretty nice, but I didn't get those black things at the end of the doors. I know why they are there

but I still don't understand. Just open your doors carefully and you won't need them. Also the leather steering

wheel "cover" looks strange, it looks like it's too small for the wheel and it doesn't match very well...

These are of course only my opinions! :)

Here's something you could do after removing those parts listed above:

- Change your front blinker to SilverVision

- Upgrade to some shorter antenna

- Add some DRLs, they will be easy to mount at usual places for foglights

(now when I see it, Auris looks even better without foglights to me)

- Window tints

I think that's enough for now as it really takes time to search for the parts

and things at shops and Internet, so you'll have enough work for some time ;)

Best regards, Alex

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Haha... :D.....thnx 4 the advice!!

I see wot u mean bout the 2 parts but the door covers are purely 4 protection as my drive is quite small and its impossible to get out without banging the door againt the fence. It was a necessity as i was chipping the side of the door.

As for the steering wheel cover, its from my old corolla. Yeah it doesnt look too good but its really well padded and adds comfort to driving. But i can see wot u mean, it is a tight fit.

Thanks Alex. Btw had a look at ur car and all i can say is :eek: UVE DONE LOAAAADS!! Mustve cost a fortune altogether. Dnt think il b doin all tht. Looks great though. Top class. well done.

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Btw wot do u mean by: Change your front blinker to SilverVision??

Osram Diadem blinkers.. I got mine from Powerbulbs UK

They look blue but flash orange as normal..

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Yes comfort is very important thing and I understand why you want to keep the door protectors and wheel cover.

BTW they doesn't look that bad and as the protectors are black they match the handles and mirror covers, just

haven't ever seen those on Auris so have to let my eyes get used to them :)

Thank you, I'm glad that you like my car! It was difficult to make it look that way, but now I'm superhappy :rolleyes:

Yes I think if you'd do everything I've done to mine it will be very difficult and long process to find the parts and install them,

of course now the availibility is better than when Auris was very new as a model and the parts were really difficult to find...

But still, to my opinion your car will look great with those mods I told you in my previous post. It depends on what you want

from your car.

Now I have something in my mind which I'd like to add on that suggestion list for you just to get more ideas:

- Rear silencer

- New rims and tyres, maybe 18" or 17" depending on which ones you like best

- lowering springs

I think now you have a lot of suggestions, just consider which ones of them you want to do, and after that,

you know what you'll have to do :)

SilverVision blinkers remove the orange colour from the blinkers when they're off:

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Diadem which JVN-11L just introduced is one of the options too :)

Best regards, Alex

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Thanks for that Alex,I've never seen the SilverVision before :)

Have SilverVisions installed at the moment, didn't like Diadem as I don't

really have anything else in blue colour, so they didn't match very well!

Best regards, Alex

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Oh my god, do people really do this to their cars ?

Have any of you freaks thoought about just buying a decent looking car in the first place rather than chavving up your Auris ?

DD

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Oh my god, do people really do this to their cars ?

Have any of you freaks thoought about just buying a decent looking car in the first place rather than chavving up your Auris ?

DD

Maybe we just don't want to look like everyone else... Have you thought about that?

Best regards, Alex

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Oh my god, do people really do this to their cars ?

Have any of you freaks thoought about just buying a decent looking car in the first place rather than chavving up your Auris ?

DD

Maybe we just don't want to look like everyone else... Have you thought about that?

Best regards, Alex

Oh yes !

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Oh my god, do people really do this to their cars ?

Have any of you freaks thoought about just buying a decent looking car in the first place rather than chavving up your Auris ?

DD

Maybe we just don't want to look like everyone else... Have you thought about that?

Best regards, Alex

Oh yes !

Good boy! ;)

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You're welcome mate! :)

Why did you remove them? Hope not only because of me and my comment about them? :o

Best regards, Alex

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Hey, I have been reading through your comments about ure Auris, and I have seen the pics where you have taken the black protectors off, I have to say it does look better without them on the doors.

I am 19 years old and I have just bought the Auris SR 2.0 Diesel :D. Mine has the tinted windows, and 17" Motor sport alloy wheels and the rear motorsport spoiler. I love the car.

I think you should buy some nice black/gun metal grey alloy wheels, to match the black door handles. Is there any way you can buy new mirror shells which are the same colour as the car, cos astheticaly that will improve the look of the car 10 fold :D

Best Reguards, Nick.

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Hey, I have been reading through your comments about ure Auris, and I have seen the pics where you have taken the black protectors off, I have to say it does look better without them on the doors.

I am 19 years old and I have just bought the Auris SR 2.0 Diesel :D. Mine has the tinted windows, and 17" Motor sport alloy wheels and the rear motorsport spoiler. I love the car.

I think you should buy some nice black/gun metal grey alloy wheels, to match the black door handles. Is there any way you can buy new mirror shells which are the same colour as the car, cos astheticaly that will improve the look of the car 10 fold :D

Best Reguards, Nick.

Thnx mate...sounds good. I agree with the mirror shells. U can have them sprayed the colour of ur car. Black tends to stick out a lot. Black alloys snd good 2!! :thumbsup:

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Yeah I deffo think ure mirror shells would look better if they were the colour of the car :P but then again if you got black/gun metal grey alloys to match the mirror shells they might not stand out as much.

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