What did you do to your Kia Stinger today?

[Kato_the_kia_stinger]

Just did the intake this afternoon. K&N Typhoon. Sounds great. Seems slightly more responsive, but it may just be a placebo effect.

 

[mfox]

Found the silver version

Sal, you get this?

 

[James5623]

Black and blue under here:
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I’ll try to post some pictures this weekend.

Just a note, I had issues with this so I don’t recommend it, I am working on a better place.

 

[robz32]

Thanks for the heads up. Have you found an alternative wire to tap in to?

 

[Dennis Macho]

Parked it in the GT1 Polebarn last night. After all it's a lease and 12K miles a year can come quick. Drove the 03 accord to work today , that's my beater..

 

[Original Poster]

Installed the OEM remote start yesterday. My left side ribs are pretty pissed off at me this morning.

 

[Socalstinga]

Installed the OEM remote start yesterday. My left side ribs are pretty pissed off at me this morning.

How do you operate it? Do you need a separate remote?

 

[James5623]

Father’s Day show:

My father in law’s is not the Stinger

 

[Original Poster]

How do you operate it? Do you need a separate remote?

Came with two remotes and also operates from the car's fob. Hit the lock button and then within 3 seconds hit either the hatch pop or panic button to start. Hit either the trunk pop or panic button to shutoff when running (the car honks when you shut it off this way, it shuts off without honking if you open a door.)

It is not difficult to install, but it is time-consuming and a pain.

 

[Toaster]

Just installed the TMS intakes!

 

[bumble bee]

Toaster- Nice intakes my friend.

 

[NYdito]

Tint font lights.

 

[bumble bee]

NY...That is bad ass. Looks awesome, where from. Whars on bottom of light?

 

[NYdito]

NY...That is bad ass. Looks awesome, where from.

It’s a shop near me they also did the roof a few weeks ago.

 

[bumble bee]

Cool buddy!!!!

 

[MerlintheMad]

I tried fecklessly to sand down the touch up pen "boogers" on my car, and succeeded in knocking them down, at the cost of turning the Silky Silver touch ups dark!? Grrr! I haven't got a solution yet.

 

[bumble bee]

James..your ride is another bad dog. slick my man.

 

[Kamauxx]

I tried fecklessly to sand down the touch up pen "boogers" on my car, and succeeded in knocking them down, at the cost of turning the Silky Silver touch ups dark!? Grrr! I haven't got a solution yet.

You may have removed the clear from them. That could give the effect of being darker.

Does your pen have a paint end and a clear end? If so add some clear to it, give it a week or so to cure, then hit with some rubbing compound and then polishing compound.

 

[StingerGT68]

I tried fecklessly to sand down the touch up pen "boogers" on my car, and succeeded in knocking them down, at the cost of turning the Silky Silver touch ups dark!? Grrr! I haven't got a solution yet.

I started using this tool for touch-ups and it works nicely...puts only a little bit of paint at a time instead of globbing like the Kia touch-up pen does. I bought it when it was cheaper than this though: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004YZXV8U/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[MerlintheMad]

You may have removed the clear from them. That could give the effect of being darker.

Does your pen have a paint end and a clear end? If so add some clear to it, give it a week or so to cure, then hit with some rubbing compound and then polishing compound.

There wasn't any "clear" to begin with. This touch up paint came at the end of the fibrous tip of the Kia touch up "pen". As @StingerGT68 noted, it lays down too much paint for really small jobs. This requires wet sanding, very carefully, to avoid what you are addressing: rubbing/sanding through the surrounding clear coat. I'm confident that I have only lightly crazed the clear coat, which a rubbing compound works to restore after the sanding. What I need is a way to make the sanded touch up paint match the surrounding Silky Silver, instead of turning dark. Thanks for your reply (same to @StingerGT68).

(edit to add: giving it a week to "cure" didn't seem to make any difference. One of my earlier "repairs" was to a glancing debris ding near the right headlight, which of course has been "curing" for weeks by now. Sanding it down gently produced exactly the same darkening as the recent "repairs" that had dried overnight.)