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To start off i want to thank everyone involved on this site its amazing and it is a great deal of help to me. i was surprised to see how helpful the site is and how everyone is eager to lend a helping hand. thank you!:thumbsup:

So i want to start a build thread. i see so many out there with people showing the progress of their jeeps and how things are coming along. i think they give people awesome ideas and just looking at other peoples cars is fun too. I also think this will help me keep moving the progress on my jeep and it will be cool to look back and see what i have done.

hopefully it will be as nice as some of the ones i have seen on this site.


So my first purchases were a 6" black stubby antenna, vled 6k license plate bulbs, and cree 7w 6k led reverse lights.( thank you to BlackedoutWK for helping me with the cree's:thumbsup:)

so heres some pics so far...

when i first got it..



vled 6k license plate bulbs



6" shorty antenna black


cree 7w 6k led reverse bulbs



Complete De-Badge


6k vled interior

ive also done the seatbelt chime code thing too if that counts lol..

next plans are tint and weather tech mats and rain guards, hopefully sooner than later.
 
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#2 ·
Welcome! Looking good so far dude!! Are you planning off road or more street build? Good luck with the modding!!
 
#3 ·
im gonna go street... with some srt reps... not going to lower it tho.
 
#5 ·
Thanks
 
#6 ·
Just ordered the rest of my LEDs for my interior!
 
#7 ·
Got my v-leds today.. but they were not all there. so i installed the front courtesy, rear courtesy, and 1 vanity light.

they forgot to ship my other vanity light and my dome lights... so i called and they are gonna ship them asap. kind of a bummer but ill post pics when they are all in.
 
#9 ·
yea this site is the balls!!

and i have no money in the pocket yet im still buying stuff lol...
 
#11 ·
What is the grille mod? i was thinking srt grille, but what ive been trying to figure out is , when people say they have an srt grille is it just the different plastic inserts or the whole thing??

i wish i had the nerve to bake my headlamps i want to do the nifty mod, but i know for a fact ill screw them up and have to buy new ones.
 
#13 ·
new pics
 
#14 ·
finished 6k complete interior.... looks amazing. only thing is i get a glow from the map/dome lights and i even used canbus proof bulbs everywhere but there?? tried putting the glove box back to original bulb but still had the glow.
 
#15 ·
installed weather tech rain guards and replaced led in lift gate with a silverstar bulb to eliminate the led glow.

 
#16 ·

bought some tyc headlights on amazon to open up and paint. hopefully ill be able to paint them in the next few weeks. also bought a rola brand trunk organizer.
 
#17 ·
YES! painted lamps FTW!

there's a how to thread by Jdub on painting your lamps
 
#18 ·
haha i just pm'd you bout this too. bought tyc brand cuz i saw you post somewhere they were fairly easy to get apart... now im staring at them and i scared haha
 
#19 ·
Just bought a srt grille and 6k hid kits for lows and fogs from xenon dept! I cant wait to get my jeep back from the body shop to get all this on it!
 
#20 ·
so failed with the headlight painting... and scored with the grille got it today! big thanks to swing4terps! cant wait till the jeep is back from the body shop so i can throw this on.


 
#21 ·
Its coming together man, and looks darn good!
 
#22 ·
Thanks man im excited and broke at the same time
 
#23 ·
had my first day off in 3 months and got a lot done today...

got the jeep back from the body shop and installed my srt grille, changed the painted grille from the one i bought to the one i had just because mine had less scratches in the paint.




got my rola trunk organizer in..


and got the two front windows tinted at 15% to match all the rears!



and while it was at the body shop it got a complete detail so its cleaner than ever.
 
#24 ·
got alot of complements this weekend on my jeep, excited i have a car i can be proud of now. love this thing! gotta get used to the tinted windows at night tho... hard to see backing up, may have to find brighter rev leds... if anyone knows of any chime in!
 
#26 ·
my hid kits should be here in the am... so getting those in when i have some free time would be good. then im looking to get some stillens, weather tech mats, and some ebay mirror covers to get painted. after all that little stuff is outta the way ill start saving for my wheels... srt reps in comp grey.

oh ill probably throw my jg stickers on now too!
 
#27 ·
got in the hid kits, installed the lows and it started to rain so ill have to wait to do the fogs.



oh i also put these on today.
 
#28 ·
so it stopped raining so i went out and i installed the hid kit for the fogs, tried first without relays and they didnt work so i took off the bumper and wired everything up nice and neat, also rewired the low kit so everything looked good under the hood. honestly didnt take too much time and was not hard at all.

took some pics but they do not do the hid any justice at all so much nicer in person, and a different color in person as well.
 
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