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scotty11811
05-05-2011, 12:20 AM
Hey Everyone i'm brand new to Alero Mods. Just picked up a 2003 Alero coupe black ecotec 2.2 5 speed :coolio: . iv already ordered the following items

{Mods Ordered and Currently Being Installed}: -Tint
-black 3m Tail lights
-intake
-intec bulbs
-projector fog lights
-Magnaflow exhaust
-Falken Tires
-Interior underglow
-Short Throw shifter

So i'm already knee deep into the alero world but I want body adjustments next. Comments and suggestions would be great! Thanks alot I will post pictures as the additions are completed!

scotty11811
05-05-2011, 12:21 AM
Found my alero for $2400 Runs 100% Perfect! no rust or dents

cavaliers60
05-05-2011, 12:25 AM
What do you mean by body adjustment?

BoarderTy
05-05-2011, 12:25 AM
Damn Son, Nice find! Welcome to the site. Have you cleared your corners yet? haha youll get alot of crap aboutthat if you havent. (i havent and ive been on here for i think 2 years)

what exactly is black 3m tail lights? link?

03Sleepr
05-05-2011, 12:25 AM
wow..sounds great, rims and a drop would be on my list ASAP..

BoarderTy
05-05-2011, 12:26 AM
What do you mean by body adjustment?

reading body adjustment i instantly think, struts, springs, lower. buut he might be meaning body kit and if you want a good kit look up and talk to kwhauck about his OSV kit. they look really sharp on 2 doors especially black like yours and mine.

helped ya out a bit kwhauck your welcome.

03Sleepr
05-05-2011, 12:31 AM
reading body adjustment i instantly think, struts, springs, lower. buut he might be meaning body kit and if you want a good kit look up and talk to kwhauck about his OSV kit. they look really sharp on 2 doors especially black like yours and mine.

helped ya out a bit kwhauck your welcome.

he will be here later to play salesman :lol: ...better not sell it though. I want an OSV kit..seeing as I hit a racoon the size of a moose on the way home a while back it might become feesable when I sell my bike or whatever the hell I'm doing..

BoarderTy
05-05-2011, 12:35 AM
OSV kits are alot of work tho. theres alot you gotta do to make em fit.
...so ive heard anyway.

i cant wait til Kwhauck chimes in i like watching him play salesman. :popcorn:

sleepyalero
05-05-2011, 12:41 AM
he will be here later to play salesman :lol: ...better not sell it though. I want an OSV kit..seeing as I hit a racoon the size of a moose on the way home a while back it might become feesable when I sell my bike or whatever the hell I'm doing..

buy kwhaucks lol

scotty11811
05-05-2011, 12:42 AM
What do you mean by body adjustment?

The 3m is like what 03sleeper has on his tail lights but its like a rubber tint
that can be applied and removed as many times as you like. iv used it before on other cars its very cheap but reliable.

BoarderTy
05-05-2011, 12:47 AM
The 3m is like what 03sleeper has on his tail lights but its like a rubber tint
that can be applied and removed as many times as you like. iv used it before on other cars its very cheap but reliable.

hmm...didnt kno that. i might have to look into that..damn these newbies teach me stuff everyday! :gun:

Redog
05-05-2011, 12:52 AM
Welcome to Aleromod, please drop the "s"

What are you looking to do with the car?

scotty11811
05-05-2011, 12:59 AM
Welcome to Aleromod, please drop the "s"

What are you looking to do with the car?

I want to have fun pretty much. summer is here so planning on lowering the car myself then lifting it back to stock for winter.

Redog
05-05-2011, 01:12 AM
I want to have fun pretty much. summer is here so planning on lowering the car myself then lifting it back to stock for winter.

OK that's not worth the effort. Don't lower it if your going to do that

But for a fun car, you seem to be heading in the right direction

sleepyalero
05-05-2011, 01:20 AM
I want to have fun pretty much. summer is here so planning on lowering the car myself then lifting it back to stock for winter.

def not worth the hassle

BoarderTy
05-05-2011, 01:32 AM
def not worth the hassle

very much agreed.
Ik alot of ppl when they hear lowered they think touching the ground. but it doesnt have to be. my car makes it thru the snow and ice and winter in general just fine. just make sure those snowbanks dont leap out at ya

kwhauck
05-05-2011, 08:39 AM
he will be here later to play salesman :lol: ...better not sell it though. I want an OSV kit..seeing as I hit a racoon the size of a moose on the way home a while back it might become feesable when I sell my bike or whatever the hell I'm doing..

I can deliver it to you!! :lol:

Ttop191
05-05-2011, 08:51 AM
it's not that ridiculous to raise the car back to stock, I know quite a few people here that do it on their wrx's just keep two sets of struts and springs...its literally 5 bolts per corner after you take the wheels off...Big deal!

Lucalare
05-05-2011, 10:30 AM
Welcome to Aleromod, please drop the "s"

Edit: erased cause it was a stupid question.

robalero
05-05-2011, 03:27 PM
ive been debating it myself living in one of the worst areas in canada for winters but im prob not gonna do it

scotty11811
05-05-2011, 06:28 PM
Here in Edmonton we get swamped with endless snow and we have the worst pot holes in Canada cause we go from extreme hot to extreme cold and vice versa.

robalero
05-05-2011, 06:57 PM
lol scott we all say each one of our towns has the worst potholes in canada lets just face it, the government that we pay our taxes on gas too ( which makes up most of the price of how high it is ) isn't going back to the roads like it is supose to

Redog
05-06-2011, 12:02 AM
it's not that ridiculous to raise the car back to stock, I know quite a few people here that do it on their wrx's just keep two sets of struts and springs...its literally 5 bolts per corner after you take the wheels off...Big deal!

Stick to the rice forums then :rolleyes2:

very much agreed.
Ik alot of ppl when they hear lowered they think touching the ground. but it doesnt have to be. my car makes it thru the snow and ice and winter in general just fine. just make sure those snowbanks dont leap out at ya

Here in Edmonton we get swamped with endless snow and we have the worst pot holes in Canada cause we go from extreme hot to extreme cold and vice versa.

OK How much "endless snow" are we talking here? I have no doubt that you get much more snow up there than we do here in Philly, even with the past 2 winters we had here.

My point, I have Eibachs, and very good all season tires, very good as in $700 a set and I had NO PROBLEMS getting stuck in the snow. Our biggest storm was 30 inches, and I didn't get stuck. The plow truck at my apartment plowed in my car. I didn't shovel out the snow in front of the car and I pulled right out after the 4th straight away (had to back up 3 times and push thru a little bit more each time, my neighbor with the Land Rover thought I was :nuts:at first then after the 4th time he was like :eek: that my lowered 2 door coupe pulled out and then he looked at his Rover stucj in the snow and was like :mad: but it's cool cause I was :emotlol: at him and his $70,000 truck stuck in the snow.)

I did get stuck once this past winter only becasue the tires where soooooooooooooooooooo good, as soon as I spun, the car dug a rut and when straight down :cry: but it was nothing a little bit of kitty litter couldn't handle

Bottom line an Alero lowered 1.25 inches does fine in 30 inches of snow