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Well as a result of the Deer and some Vandals I had to take my car in to the body shop and get some repairs done.
All in all it should cost me about $800
$300 deductible - Deer
$300 deductible - Vandal
$200 deductible - New windshield ( it was recommended that I get done)
I will post some pictures once it’s done. I should have it back this Saturday.
I am seriously starting to think I should give up on having nice cars and start riding my bike.
Sunday night I hit a deer on 0Ave and around 180th St.:
Then on Monday night the car was vandalized:
The unfortunate part of this is that now ICBC wants two deductibles of $300 each.
I am sick of having bad Carma. (For those thinking “No he didn’t” Oh yes, yes I did!)
A about 6-7 months ago I saw an Audi A3 Sportback (Similar to this one, and this one) with a white body and a black roof.
I always thought it looked sharp, and when I had the Tiburon I had planned on having a similar paint job done (Only keeping the yellow paint).
Now that I have the Golf, I am tempted yet again to get the roof painted black. So I started playing with The Gimp. Using no more than two layers and a simple yet effect mask I was able to color the parts I wanted! To get the black color I just messed with the HUE/SAT/lightness settings until it looked black. Then I adjusted the opacity on the upper layer to about 80% to regain some of the ambient reflections and to make it look “natural” (heh, natural, something I am *not* when it comes to this stuff). Please be nice and leave me some comments!
This is what I came up with:
Oh yeah, and I wanted to know what it would look like with black mouldings too!
As promised I have pictures of my new car. Here are some samples:
And thanks again to Chris for helping me wash it last night. Thanks to him my new baby is squeaky clean. Now she just needs a wax job!
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