Hey, I have one of those! :D
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1608170/ booo you got a chrome grille :(

Does yours have rust on the fuel door?

I took a quick peek at yours, it's all nice and shiny. I have the 2.5L as yours but mine is the LT model. So yours is a little more "sporty" I belive.

As for the rust on the fuel door , no I don't have any. Aside from being a little dirty I haven't seen any rusting. Only rust I've seen so far is a small bubble forming under the paint on the main support tower for the doors that eventually needs to be addressed before it gets worse.

There's some minor nicks and tiny pucks in the paint. But it's not noticeable unless you're purposely sniffing the hood.


The dash WAS really nice until my mom stuffed remodeling supplies in it for a small job. Now there's some minor line gouges her metal finish corners left. If you know of any ways of fixing without the need of a new dash I'm all for it.

I don't really know with plastics, most things someone like you or me could do would be to sand the gouges down smooth. That "leather" look is not something easily reproduced.


Its all shiny cuz I had just washed it in the fall. Right now, my black car looks white from all the salt! XD

I was talking to my cousin about the plastics (like on our bumpers and wheel flares) and he said that you can get this cleaner/protector called 'Forever Black' and you put it on there, and it seals the plastic somehow, and makes it look like a million bucks. My plastics are all greyed and crappy, but if I take my nail to it, I can scratch off this coat of bleh and underneath is the nice virgin plastic.

I don't know how gentle it would be since most house relating cleaning supplies aren't meant for cars. But you could take a bottle of 409 and see if it takes up that crud. It can take up some really nasty crap on our stove. So it should help somewhat with the caked on bumper goob.

As for my bumper plastics, they're really light like that from factory. So if there is any fading it would be hard to see. Also, if you could ask your cousin if he'd know where to get some fairly wide fender flares. I'm going to need some once I can eventually save for the 18" wheels I want to get for them. From what I was told they're going to stick out about 3" from my fender so if it's stick out too much you can get in big trouble here in NY for it.


It'll be a VERY long while. But once I can get my chosen 18's and low profile summer tires I'll post another pic to show what it looks like. I'm also pondering on putting a nice aftermarket muffler on it to actually give the little v6 some sound to it. The one I want is almost $400, so that's also going to be a while to get as well. x_x

Actually, now that I remember it. My bumpers, side skirts and fender trim are painted silver. So i wouldn't have the faded plastic.