TheSubaruJunkie

Damn I miss this car. Let me know if you ever want to sell it!

LOL Jeremy!

Maybe if you own a brat with 2500 original miles on it.

Nice photo.... ....of it PARKED!????? Show it doing its thing!

I want to know who these people are bidding on BaT? They are insane!! I mean take this for an example: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1994-toyota-4runner/ current bid $6,200 for a 3.0 4Runner with 138k miles??? That thing is maybe worth $3000 AT MOST! And thats while its currently running and driving. Not very long from now that motor will be trash. lol Anyhow, $46K for a Gen1 Brat is absolutely ridiculous. I call B.S.

Thanks! Yeah I really like the way the gold rims look with the red too. And now that I tinted my fog lights it just looks so proper!

The stuff you used at the car shows was just some sort of restoring agent that brought back the shine in dull plastic. The stuff I used is an actual black dye (that will turn your clothing black I found out). It appears to have still dyed the plastic a darker color. Im going to pressure wash it all off and see if it took care of the fading that I was concerned about.

Well this sucks! I just took the car to get washed and it pretty much destroyed the dye job I did yesterday. Damnit.

I will have to see what I can do. It burns a little oil and makes my wife sick. So no way she's gonna want to sit in this car for 12 hours.

Since I was preparing the bumper for the dye, I thought it would be a good opportunity to pull the fog lights and restore them. I also picked up some yellow rvinyl tint off ebay and took some time to tint the fog lights. Here's a before & after shot of the fog lights on the restoration: and here's a shot of one light tinted vs the clear: The tinting process is not terribly difficult. I am not a perfectionist and ended up with a few tiny bubbles. But from a distance you would never be able to tell. I think the yellow fog lights compliment the gold rims.

Well I spent the majority of yesterday with Rosey in the garage. I picked up some "Forever Black" bumper and trim dye off amazon so I could restore all the faded plastic cladding. I didn't really want to go full black, but there didn't seem to be any other options. And I didn't feel like masking and painting, so this seemed like the simplest solution. For reference here are a few before closeup shots of the main eye-sores: Here's a comparison shot I took during the process: And a close up of how well it covered the faded ripples on the rear bumper: Side shot of the finished project: The entire job didn't take more than 3 hours. I made sure to wash all the plastic with warm soapy water and then dry it with a towel. Then let it sit for a few minutes (80f california sun) to fully dry before pulling the car into the garage and getting to work. One bottle seemed to be more than enough. I probably have enough left in the bottle to do a follow-up coat in a few area's where I got sloppy. Near the end of the job, the foam brush included with the kit began to get floppy and lost a lot of its support. This made it difficult to apply even coats and on a few of the last panels you can see brush strokes. I will be getting another sponge style brush and re-apply a coat in these area's some other day. For now I am pretty satisfied with the results.

Yeah 16" is so 2002, but you cant beat the ride comfort. Plus tires are still $90ea for high performance 215's.

I removed the cross bars from the roof. It looks so much better now, except for all the faded trim. That is next on my list!

Beauty Shot