Hummm, where to start...
Here it was the day I got it. I drove 4 hours to a tiny dealership in Ohio. I paid 17,500$.
It's a 2008 H3 adventure, 59,000 miles
Black on black with monsoon and that's it. No moonroof, no power seats, no leather, no onstar, no floor mats, no accessories.
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First thing I did was mess with the grille. A long process but I finally got it the way I wanted.
I filled in the signal holes, removed the lamp and put some LED amber lights in it.
Took me forever to find the LED's, notice the board in them is black, very hard to find, most are green or tan.
Wired it up to plug rite in a work with the OEM plug.
I wired it so the little amber light stayed on 100% of the time and the big amer light flashed with the blinker.
The gold ballast was mounted to the inside face of the grille. That made it work properly on the 12v system.
Pictures of it finished
Painted in some ghosted flames, always liked the look. They can only be seen what the light hits it just rite.
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Then I started with the sound. I upgraded the front speakers with JL audio marine series components.
Best speakers I've ever owned. They still sound great. The JL 7.7's is what I installed. They don't quite fit the hole so I had to made the hole bigger.
Also installed dynomatt to suck up the vibration.
I installed the tweeters rite on in the door panel. Sounds great.
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Installed a 7" screen from soundstream. It has ever option in the world but the best was that all it's preouts made 5volts.
This unit is easily hacked to run the screen in all drive modes. Most only let the screen work with DVD's and AV inputs in park.
I also painted the center counsel black. Also painted the temp control buttons. I get lots of complements on this one.
You can see the ghosted strip on this too, matches the grille.
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Then I started getting ready for winter and I made up a extra washer fluid bottle wrapped with heat strips for warm spray in the winter months.
It's fed at the bottom to keep the fluid level in both tanks even.
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Then at the same time I installed some heated wiper blades
Kept it clean running the wires under the arm.
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Here it was the day I got it. I drove 4 hours to a tiny dealership in Ohio. I paid 17,500$.
It's a 2008 H3 adventure, 59,000 miles
Black on black with monsoon and that's it. No moonroof, no power seats, no leather, no onstar, no floor mats, no accessories.
.
First thing I did was mess with the grille. A long process but I finally got it the way I wanted.
I filled in the signal holes, removed the lamp and put some LED amber lights in it.
Took me forever to find the LED's, notice the board in them is black, very hard to find, most are green or tan.
Wired it up to plug rite in a work with the OEM plug.
I wired it so the little amber light stayed on 100% of the time and the big amer light flashed with the blinker.
The gold ballast was mounted to the inside face of the grille. That made it work properly on the 12v system.
Pictures of it finished
Painted in some ghosted flames, always liked the look. They can only be seen what the light hits it just rite.
.
.
Then I started with the sound. I upgraded the front speakers with JL audio marine series components.
Best speakers I've ever owned. They still sound great. The JL 7.7's is what I installed. They don't quite fit the hole so I had to made the hole bigger.
Also installed dynomatt to suck up the vibration.
I installed the tweeters rite on in the door panel. Sounds great.
.
.
Installed a 7" screen from soundstream. It has ever option in the world but the best was that all it's preouts made 5volts.
This unit is easily hacked to run the screen in all drive modes. Most only let the screen work with DVD's and AV inputs in park.
I also painted the center counsel black. Also painted the temp control buttons. I get lots of complements on this one.
You can see the ghosted strip on this too, matches the grille.
.
.
Then I started getting ready for winter and I made up a extra washer fluid bottle wrapped with heat strips for warm spray in the winter months.
It's fed at the bottom to keep the fluid level in both tanks even.
.
.
Then at the same time I installed some heated wiper blades
Kept it clean running the wires under the arm.
.
.