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08-03-2005, 09:50 AM

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Removed ugly wood...

Well, I've finally had enough of the wood that the previous owner had put on. I used a hair dryer to heat up the glue and peeled off the wood. In total, it was about 5 hours of work over two days(battery died because I had radio on the whole time...oops)

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08-03-2005, 09:51 AM

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08-03-2005, 09:54 AM

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It may just be the lack of light in the pictures, but the wood look isnt that bad.

YES, I realize the gray floor creates a severe contrast, I'm talking about the black against the wood.

08-03-2005, 09:58 AM

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Yea, it was the light. I took it with a bad camera in my closed garage. It was a lot lighter than the pictures. I never really liked it. I was trying to convince myself that I did but I never really did.

08-03-2005, 10:00 AM

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The plastic wood didn't look good. Good choice and execution.

08-03-2005, 10:17 AM

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How'd you get it off so clean? When I tried to remove a brushed aluminum piece from one piece of trim, it left a bit of glue. Goo gone melted that gray-matte finish thats on pieces like the vents, shifter trim, and door controls.

08-03-2005, 10:22 AM

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looks much better, I dont mind wood, just in moderation.... that was way to much.

08-03-2005, 10:34 AM

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Damn that wood was pimp... oh well.

08-03-2005, 10:51 AM

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I noticed that the hotter I got the wood with the hairdrier, the more the glue came off with the wood. I bought this stuff called un-du, a little bottle with a black plastic scoop that made it easy to push the stuck on glue pieces off. I put some on a bootleg scotch bright sponge my girlfriend had that was labeled as "lite" and put some of the stuff on the sponge and scrubbed away. I tried a scotch bright one I had at my house that was marked "heavy" and it wiped off some of the finish on the back driverside by the switch.

08-03-2005, 10:53 AM

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much better.

08-03-2005, 11:29 AM

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that looks WAY better.

08-03-2005, 11:41 AM

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exactly what i did except that I had the brush aluminum...

08-03-2005, 12:31 PM

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Wood looks like crap,....way to go removing it. Looks much much better now!

08-03-2005, 12:58 PM

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HUGE improvement... IMO wood doesn't belong in our cars...esp. the plastic stuff..

nice work!

08-03-2005, 05:44 PM

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ive always disliked wood interiors, it just looks cheap unless its in a car that none of us could ever afford, and even still it doesnt look that great, but its out different styles and tastes that make car modding fun in the first place.

08-04-2005, 09:32 AM

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Brushed aluminum looks great but I don't like wood interiors either.

08-04-2005, 10:38 AM

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Good choice.....that "wood" look was way too ugly...now it looks a H3LL of alot better

08-04-2005, 10:52 AM

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do u have any leftover pieces for sale?

08-04-2005, 02:07 PM

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yea looks a lot better now...the wood makes it too bright kinda =/

08-04-2005, 02:55 PM

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I like the brushed aluminum a lot better than the ghetto wood look.

08-04-2005, 07:43 PM

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imo, the only wood trims that don't look tacky on the max are the the oem gle wood trims. just my .02

08-04-2005, 07:52 PM

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Sorry, I threw the wood out. You wouldn have wanted it, they were kind of mis-shapen after I was bending them back to remove them, plus half of them broke as I was pulling them off. They were pretty thick. I should have done it a lot more slowly and I would have sold them. Sorry.

There was so damn much though, even on the cupholders in the back seat, there were 3 pieces on the back of the console

08-04-2005, 08:00 PM

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wow,the pieces around the defroster vents,and the steering wheel ones are the worst ones of them all. You definitely made an upgrade.

08-04-2005, 10:16 PM

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nice job. that wood looked like crap. Couldn't believe you bought the car look'n like that. =p

08-04-2005, 11:06 PM

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Nice job removing the wood trim. Looks like it was never there. May have looked good if you had a tan interior but you didnt. Good Choice.

08-04-2005, 11:37 PM

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I love the look of real wood!

Although My dash was a bit fu*ked up by the ba$tard who broke into my car and pryed out my HU

08-05-2005, 06:00 AM

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I had wood in my 02 max and i kinda liked it...But i won't do it to the 03 TE because the inside is nice and sporty looking. I use to be a wood pimp thou