99 Corolla work in progress

99 Corolla work in progress

Just a thread I'm starting with pics of my car, I'll update it with everything I do to it.

Here's a picture the day I got it:


Chillin' at the beach with my new clear corners:


I ditched the hubcaps, disabled the DRLs and painted the logo up front black:


This was not a good day:


First time I drove in the snow:


Took it all apart just to see if I could put it back together:


Changed all the lights on the inside:


My new gauges during the day:


And at night:


More to come soon, let me know what you think.

nice... i like the red lights within the knobs and shifter

nice man, i think all you need is a front lip oem side skirts and a drop, some rims too.

I would love to have those gauges at night....

i love the red lights i want to do that now lol

love the red lights
PLEASE slam it. lol

Yes, I know, I need to drop it lol. Maybe if jody gives me those tiens lol.

And my gauges look a little different now, that's an old pic. The color behind the odo and the needles is red now too. I'll try to get a new pic soon.

Thanks for the good words guys.

ha, kinda gave my teins away wit my other car /=
hummer send me his. whenever paypal stops BS wit me!! >:-(

Looks good bro !!!!!

lol you took it apart just to see if you can put it back together again...

LOL yeah I like doing that... I've always loved seeing how things are built. But I also changed the shifter light while I was at it. If you look at the picture you can see the bulb sticking out

How did you do the red interior lights?

Ok this is kinda funny, but my mods to all the lights in my car were 100% free. How you ask? This:

That is great!!! Does it look as good in person as it does in the pics??

Well on my screen it looks a little on the light red side, but in person it's a really deep red.

Did you sharpie the inside or the outside. I think it would look clean if you did it on the inside, but if you did it on the outside it may look bad because you would be able to see if you got some red on the black plastic. I guess with this method you could use any color you want. Sounds sweet

I took apart everything to get to the actual light bulb, that is what I colored, the actual bulb.

So when the lights are off, it looks completely stock.

Very clever young grasshopper

How long has it been since you painted the bulbs? Has the ink on the bulb dimmed at all from the heat or are they not hot enough to affect the sharpie ink?

Yeah, I used to color bulbs with sharpies years ago HAHA... but it does not last at all... so you'll probably be taking it all back apart lol... and not just to see if you can put it back together!

Have you considered a 8.5 gen front end swap????

What about putting it on the inside of the plastic. dont know how it would look but i bet it would last a bit longer since its not directly on the bulb.

Well I did the clock about a year ago, still looks great, and the gauges don't count, since it's red on it's own, but the knobs and the shifter light are all relatively new, so we'll see

Yes I have, and it's on the to-do list, but not any time soon. But someday I'll be rollin with that front end.

I don't know how that would look either, but I'm not too worried, since it is easy to do it the way I did. lol. Plus I saved money by not buying all those led's that are out there. You could try it out on your car though

Yeah, coloring the plastic would work a lot better...

I'm glad to see a new front end in your future

It could be in my very near future if people would crash their 8.5 gens around here lol. They're NEVER in a junk yard.

coz u live in central cali. lol
like hector

This goes along with the fourth picture I put up:

In this picture you have 1 broken stud. what happened? ran into another curb with the donut and break another one or something?

I got a flat on the freeway, was almost gonna be late for work, so I was in a hurry. Well, one exit later, I get off the freeway, hit a pothole. FAIL. It dents the donut rim, as you can see in the last pic. So I drive it all slow the last 1/2 mile to work, and figure I'll worry about it once I get off work. My buddy let's me borrow his full size spare from his car, SCORE. Well it turns out I was in way too much of a hurry to put the donut on, apparently I cross-threaded a lug nut. FAIL #2. So I take that picture, knowing I'll share this story someday... I take two other lug nuts off, get going on the last one, what do you know, cross-threaded. FAIL #3. Had to break the studs to get the spare off, so I got a ride to Kragen, and got all new ones just in case the other ones were compromised in any way. Luckily they're relatively easy to change, just took off the brakes to get to it, as you can see in the fourth picture in the original post in this thread. If you look, there are two of them broken off. So in the end, I had two flat tires within 9 minutes of each other, one bent rim, two broken studs, one new tire, four new studs, and four new lug nuts.

wat part of cali u live??