My Magma Orange EK Civic Hatch with Purple Rota Grids

Some will like it, some will hate it, ohhh welll, I like being UNIQUE and DIFFERENT, not your average primary colors


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Painted mirrors
Painted bumper grill
Installed fog lights
Aligned hood

 

oh my god, this will not end well.

 

Car looks good but maybe different color for rims

 

needs moar fake/knockoff/cheap parts

 

no

 

I'll give some constructive criticism. The grill and bumper inserts seem to have been reversed in color. If you were to paint the grill orange and have left the bumper inserts black, it would appear much cleaner. Also an oem lip would do wonders for the front end. I think the insides of the wheels should match the faces since we can see it even in pictures. The exhaust is pretty much hideous though. It sticks out way too far past the bumper. Try and line up the hood with the front corner of the fenders as well. Oh, and I do like the color. Not a bad start per say.

 

EVERYTHING I was going to say right here. Take this in stride O.P

 

You could have left it orange and not been a typically seen color. But I'm afraid to admit you really aren't that unique, you just grabbed some random neon colors that a hellaflush or slammed fanboy hasn't got ahold of yet. You're still following a trend, just grabbing two colors(that clash really hard btw) to act like you're ahead of the game.

 

sunroof gtg. i like the color, just maybe a oem si lip, painted matched grill(like oem), outer part of side mirrors, ect... it will be nice...

 

I think you are trying WAY too hard to be different, trends these days are very "persuasive". So many biters

What happened to the days of subtlety, clean lines and saving up abit of extra money to do things properly (body work/paint) along with good quality parts (volks) not rotas.
I must be getting old...... if this is what is "popular" now.

no offence, but this example is poorly executed. I doubt you will see much love from veteran H-T'rs, maybe some love from 2008+ members. =cP

If you are happy with it, that's all that matters...

 

Not so unique nor different. But it is clean.

 

I agree with what pretty much everyone else has said. From the pics tho it seems like there is a bit of orange peel in the paint, I would start with a good wet sand and buff to get the paint to shine up nice and then start tackling the various other things mentioned. My $0.02.

 

Thank you for the constructive criticism instead of bashing me lol... I just got the car back from the paint shop and threw it together. Totally agree about the grill and the bumper insert, that was #1 on my list to attend to. Also on my list is a lip. Basically everything you've said is on my list of things to deal with, this is just the start. The color is from the special edition VW GTI (1200 made)..

 

I didn't just "grab" some random neon colors. A lot of thought went into the color combination. First off, I'm a female and I wanted some sort of "girly" color so I chose purple for the wheels, then I wanted a color that "I" have not seen on an EK before, I saw one of the original special edition VW GTI and I fell in love with the color. It's not about the game for me, it's about what I like, if you don't like it, that's on you. Thanks though

 

LOL about the sunroof ... I'm gonna be getting a lip, and I'm thinking about the mirrors, I kinda like them black .. Thanks for the comments though!

 

First off, I'm not trying to hard , I have a lot of patience and I let my ideas come to me.. Second of all, the car is not finished. Still needs to be wet sanded and there are a couple spots that need to be touched up. I am happy with it so far knowing that it's not finished. When it's finished I'll be back to put up new pics. Thanks for the comments

 

Thank you!

 

Yea I know about the orange peel, I'm taking the car back to the body shop for the final touches. The car was a shell, changed color from Red, fenders/bumpers/moldings were off the car, so I had to put everything back on the car, and then they would finish up, and spray certain parts black and certain parts orange, and they might even end up re-clearing the whole car. Thanks for the comments!

 

I like it

 

leg humpers unite

 

wheels gotta go.. period, the paint is nice but does not flow well with the tail lights. other than that, it's a good start.


it's just too showy for me.

 

Purple wheels don't flow at all, with the right wheels it could be clean.

 

Hate it. wheels, sunroof,grill,orange peel...

 

Well, that's all you had to say that you were a girl...In that case, sweet car!! You like movies and Bennigans????