I had this idea about a month ago looking for door sills. Then i thought about things could do with stuff I already had laying around. So i made a rubbing of the Fit logo on the car and used the rubbing to make a stencil. Using a sandwich of blue painters tape and clear packing tape I made a reverse image stencil which i tacked to the surface with lotion (weird, but it works perfect and comes right off) Proper masking and careful paint work and the results are better than I had hoped for! Heres some pics for ya, hope you like it

 

it actually looks pretty cool. i like

 

thanks pretty cool but f down the line wanna take it off then it will be junk.

 

I can always re-spray it with more bed-liner if it gets torn up. My door sills were getting pretty scratched up so this is a better looking alternative. I'm not real worried about trade-in, I'm keeping this car until I die LOL

 

Ooooo... SHINY! +1 for ingenuity! I wish like hell that the GE door sills worked with the GD. Maybe if I get out my belt sander. Hmmm...



Pssst... You need to vacuum

 

LOL Yeah I know, but the shop vac is hooked up to the table saw in the basement and I didn't feel like lugging it upstairs! I know! I'll use this as an excuse to get another shop vac! I'm a genius. Why don't the GE sills work? Are they too thick?

 

clever +points

 

GE sills have a higher step between the inner and outer portions of the sill, and it's a different depth from the edge. I'd like to test fit a set, but don't have the cash to play with after buying the wide body side molding, dead pedal, and dash trim kit from Zeta last week.

I have two shop-vacs myself. I got a decent price on their little tiny one (Maybe a gallon size) and I use that as well as the monster when cleaning out the car. The tiny one is a lot easier to lug around than the monster but doesn't have quite the suction. It's better for the bigger bits and pieces and getting into nooks and crannies. The monster sucks the dust out of the fabric and gets the car really clean.

 

I'll do my quarterly vacuuming when I do my spring detail job once this accursed rain stops sometime next month! LOL That and I wanna bedliner my fogs soon too, they are loosing their paint fast now. Blehhh VBP is pretty, but too damn thin!

 

I try to vacuum mine once a week, or every other week at least. I've been remiss for the last month and the thing is filthy. Then again, I'm in mine more than most people, traveling 100 miles a day to go to work, 6 days a week.

VBP thin? Try MR. There's no clearcoat. :P

 

Pretty cool idea. Looks good!

 

Thanks Firefly! E=MC2 100 miles a day ehh? Piker! LOL I go 68 miles one way to work so I feel your pain(up-hill, both ways, in the snow, with no shoes on ROFL), I''ll be out of warranty by my one year anniversary. My hood has chips in it almost all the way to the windshield, and both my A-pillars have stone chips. In retrospect maybe lowering the Fit wasn't such a great idea... I know maybe I'll bedliner the whole car!

 

68 miles, huh? I have a friend in Manassas that works for PBS.

Add an additional 360 miles of driving a day at work in a 45 foot long bus.

 

Looks good...congrats on the idea, I actually thought of doing this instead of the applique for rear bumper protection.

 

I did the rear bumper first actually, not with the stencil, just the bedliner. I balked at spending 80 or so bucks on something to cover the scratches I had put in the top of my bumper LOL

 

so how did it turn out...got pics?

 

There ya go! Its not the best pic but you get the idea...

 

wow, that looks good...is it holding up okay? Could you give me some DIY instructions, and what product you used?

 

Actually, yes it is holding up quite well. To my surprise it made it through this past winter without any issues what-so-ever. I used a spray on truck bedliner made by Duplicolor. You will want to sand your clearcoat with a medium grit paper (like 200 grit) to rough it up and give the coating something to grab onto. If you just spray the stuff on good clearcoat it probably won't adhere as well. I used painters tape to mask out the size and shape I wanted. The Duplicolor stuff is really amazingly easy to use, you really can't put down too heavy a coat as it just makes the cover stronger. You can get it at Autozone or Pep-Boys for about six bucks a can.