David's 1997 Eddie Bauer Explorer 4x4

[Steeda04SVT]

Bought it October 4th, 2011 locally with 133K on it with a few small issues. It needed new tires and brakes and passenger's side window didn't work along with the windshield washer fluid pump. Here are pics of the day I bought it.

 

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Painting the faded door pillars.

 

[sport97]

Looks good! I may paint my pillars too, although they are not nearly as faded. What paint did you use?

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Just a simple semi gloss black bought from O'Reillys.

 

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Then added Black Rock Lobo 950 wheels and new Hancook Tires and Raptor Liner to the Tan Fender Flares and front and rear bumpers.

 

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Also got rid of the stock head unit and went with a Pioneer AVH-P3300BT and love it.

 

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Then added the brush guard.

 

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This weekend I did the Bi-Xenon Morimoto Retrofit on Ebay black diamond cut headlights.

 

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Here's some pics from this morning's snow storm.

 

[sport97]

How does that stuff hold up on the plastic flares? I've thought about doing it to mine. I love that look. Nice job on the projectors btw.

 

[2TimingTom]

The black looks MUCH better than the tan.

I still can't decide if I like those headlights or not.

 

[Steeda04SVT]

How does that stuff hold up on the plastic flares? I've thought about doing it to mine. I love that look. Nice job on the projectors btw.

Holds up great. I had to sand down the tan fender flares with fine grit sand paper and as pictured taped off everything else and let it in the garage at night and put it out in the sun during the daytime to help it cure check. The raptor kit comes with 4 bottles and a can of hardner and a spray gun to where the bottle hooks up to it to spray gun and to your compressor. It was a lot easier then I thought it was gonna be.

The black looks MUCH better than the tan.

I still can't decide if I like those headlights or not.

They are better then the factory headlights and the one piece projectors I had before these retrofit projectors.

 

[Sams01XplrSprt]

nice x u got there

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Thanks, it's still a work in progress. I wish I had a sun roof or panoramic roof on my X like the Flex.

 

[asull85]

Great looking X!

 

[Steeda04SVT]

Thank you.