story.customz

What's up ACURAZINE!!??

My name is Evan and I just bought a silver 08 TL with only 63000km on it.

It sounds bad but I wanna say thanks to thieves because without them I would still have my old car :





She was still a work in progress, but was stolen right outside my work about a month ago. Not even the shell turned up.

I always wanted a TL because they are absolutely gorgeousss cars so I started browsing every second of the day to grab one. Now I'm happier than ever to own one!

She's wrapped in 18% tint all around and I've already starting tweaking her a bit. Dipped the side markers for now, but I'll most likely be going with some smoked replacements with white leds. Debadged the trunk and dipped the Acura emblem, and also bought a cheap smoked license plate cover. Tons more to come but here are some pics for now!

aBe 024

Welcome Evan!!! Congrats on the new ride!!

As some will say "Welcome to the money pit!"

The Machine

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Welcome. And that is an interesting way to look at being able to get a new car, but as long as your happy about the situation. Happy modding!

Undying Dreams

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Looks good man!

Welcome to Acurazine! Sorry to see your Honda go, it looked brand new!

One thing I wouldn't do is the sidemarkers. By dipped I'm assuming you've plasti-dipped them. Doesn't that block out the light they give off?

If you're looking for smoked with white LED look for "fishcake123" on eBay or go on his site, Unique Style Racing.

chapu08

Welcome and congrats for your new ride. SSM/ASM FTW!!

1black_seven

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Welcome!

Here the links,
start spending money.
Headlight/taillights etc
RV6-Performance
Heeltoe Automotive
LEDs
Domed Decalz

HEAVY_RL

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dont forget http://revindustry.com/

Congrats

Steven Bell

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Welcome Evan-congrats on your Honda/Acura family upgrade!

Be sure to join our Silver TL Social Group from the link below my signature.

nickn7

yup as stated about they have type-s "look alike" side markers on ebay so you can get the OEM look.

rossv1

Congrats on the TL.


And I hope you plasti dipped the front sidemarkers too in order to keep the look uniform.

Austin, the plasti dip makes the sidemarkers a very deep color but are still visible during the day and night.

story.customz

Thanks for the welcome guys!

Didn't even think about dipping the front marker since it already looks smoked, but I think I'll do that tomorrow. Dipping my grille and blacking out my tails tomorrow too!

kaikidd

Welcome!

k1x

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TIP: don't rush..spend money wisely..welcome

sbstnce

first things first!!! DUMP IT!!!!!!

story.customz

Dump it? Was that an auto correct for drop it? Sounds like you want me to get rid of my car already lol

More expensive mods will be done next summer when I get some money saved up. Right now I'm just focusing on cheap and easy mods. Ordered some LEDs for the DRLs, reverse lights and license plate.

HID fogs will follow in a bit.

I haven't been modding for like a month so I'm excited to get right to it with my new beauty

justnspace

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ASM for the win!

05_NBP_TL

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Credit cards FTW

terdonal

Welcome and congrats on the new ride, looking good.

justnspace

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Jesus drove a Honda but never talked about it. "For I did not speak of my own accord." -John 12:49

SharksBreath

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good list!

OP welcome to the forum.

UA6

Welcome and congrats on the new ride Sorry to hear about your Accord.

dreem1er

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Welcome....unique intro

CLtotheTL32

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Welcome and congrats! Sorry to hear about the fate of your Accord.

Pghpizzaman

looks good man congrats

BigZ

Congrats, I just bought one also from a buddy of mine, I love it

Healingduck

Welcome and congrats on the car! Do you have any idea how they managed to take the Accord? I wouldn't think the newer ones would be that easy to steal.

story.customz

Thanks everyone!


I'm pretty sure they grabbed it with a tow truck or flatbed and just drove off with it. The back entrance didn't have cameras so they just took it that way. It was a shitty situation at the time but I'm honestly happier than ever now because my TL is 1000 times better in every way. I park it righttttt infront of the owners office now so I don't risk this beauty getting stolen loool

story.customz

So I figured it was about time to bump this and I guess make it my progress thread. I've done a decent amount of things to the car so I have a bunch of pics through the various stages. I'll start from stock and move to where it's at now. Hope you enjoy!













Just plugged the LED DRLs in without the harness so they look like this:

I don't have the DRL warning light on my dash though so I'm fine with it.













Smoked license plate cover:

Smoked cover removed:


Messing around with some vinyl:



Smoked tails install:












HID Fogs:


Huge door ding from some asshole:










Dipped bar and emblem:

Time for Gloss black:



Gloss black foglight housing, barely noticeable but whatever:


Backed up into a handrail, really close up there's a bunch of cracks that I attempted to cover up with some touch up paint. From far you can't notice it:





And now for my favourite mod by far, just a before pic:























Sorry for the terrible cell phone pics, but it's the best I have
Nothing crazy has been done, but I'm basically completed the black and silver theme I was going for.

More to come:

- 50% windshield tint
- Switchbacks
- 5000k fogs
- Redoing rims gloss black
- painted calipers
- finish painting the rest of the grille gloss black
- intake resonator delete

Mods once I pay off the car...

- coils
- aspec
- wheels

thanks for looking!

2FRESHTL

welcome slim i got mines 3 months ago too lovin it enjoy your car man one thing dont treat her cheap!!!

ATLS_666

You haz progress thread ?? Car looks proper. So strange they picked your accord to steal. Its not like it was modded or anything.

Rios-TL

Great job. I love all the pics. I want to do my headlights but i dont want to mess anything up.

crazyasiantl

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Welcome nice progress

CLtotheTL32

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So. Many. Pictures.

Nice work! Those headlights

guitarplayer16

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Great work on the headlights!

zachlone

Nice progress! Love the headlights! U should vinyl wrap the center bar so u don't have to worry about chips. Seems like u have painted that grill all differently

Steven Bell

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Dude, that is one hell of an update.

story.customz

Thanks man, I'm definitely enjoying her
Lol thanks man. The accord was a work in progress and was basically practice for modding my TL haha.
Thanks man. Honestly the headlights were actually really easy and straight forward. I think the only way you could mess them up is if you keep them in the oven too long and actually melt them. 15 mins at 200 degrees was the perfect amount of time for mine. I left the first one in for like 12 mins and ended up having to put it back in cause I couldn't separate it. Just take your time and you'll be fine
Thanks!
Lol thanks man!
Thanks GP! Your DIY was a lot of help!
Thanks man! I haven't actually thought about wrapping but that's a good idea. My center bar has a base coat of plasti dip so I'm not too worried about chipping. It's held up really good so far. But lol yep I was trying out a bunch of different styles. I'm still not finished it haha
Haha yeah I figured it'd be easier for everyone to just have a huge list of pics on the very first page.

Undying Dreams

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Looks good!

Clearing/blacking out the headlights makes the car look so aggressive.

TheLowLife

^ I want to do mine

Comptechtl2367

To much Plasidip IMO but I love the headlights!