Back in the game. My LSE thread

Frogman said:
Clarion left a bad taste in my mouth a long tie ago:

I had one of their first generation AutoPC units. Nice little unit, ahead of it's time. Then, when the 2nd generation came out, I bought one of those for the sole reason that it was Sirius ready (this was before Sirius bought out XM).

It was advertised as Sirius ready, simple plug and play. What I later found out was their idea of Sirius ready at the time was nothing more than an AUX 1/8th inch audio jack where you could plug the output of a stand-alone Sirius tuner into.

Hell, the first gen Auto PC could have done that too, and it wasn't advertised as "Sirius ready".

As such, I don't care how "good" their units may be. I'll never give them another penny. Be it for a head unit, a speaker, amp, whatever.
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looks like a Cougar dash..
 
^^ Okay my computer is spazzing out. Hold up I'll clean this up and get it in one post.


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^^ Agreed! I was waxing it and had a hard time reaching in the middle of the roof and I'm 6'2! Lol So thats my excuse that I need to lower it. Don't know much about these suspensions though. How hard is it to drop in lowering springs? I really want to tackle replacing the front struts by myself and obv that would be a great time to swap springs also.
 
Lol well I suppose I'm used to my tiny tC that the roof was only up to my stomach. Yeah I was going to but I couldn't find a damn hair dryer or heat gun. I'll do that soon and swap the front plate too.

And my exhaust tips are off. Its hard to tell in the pictures but the passenger side sticks out about 1-2" farther than the driver side. I don't know where they're actually supposed to be...tucked almost all the way under or do they poke out?
 
diskfunktional said:
Disagree fully. Alpine head-units put out the best sound quality for the price no matter what price range. Take any combination of amplifiers, speakers, and speakers and the Alpine head-unit will sound the best hands down. Its all about quality IMO.
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Id rather take a Kenwood Exceleon anyday.
 
I'm not gonna say your opinion is wrong. But eXcelon is just Kenwoods "Premier" not an actual model name. FASTLLS is right it is just a matter of opinion at this point.
 
:-) Thank you! And I think my girlfriend is getting me tint for V-day so thats pretty sweet! I'm jealous of your GenII headlights on your old LS.
 
^ How was the fitment? I've read that they don't exactly fit perfect? They look damn good from ur sig pic. Couple things I hate about this car...headlights, dash illumination color, and the damn Lincoln window regulators!
 
Support as in? Brackets and etc? Or the main support up front? Cutting seems a little easier. How was the fitment? Any bad gaps? I really would rather upgrade to the gen2 headlights with factory HIDs. What kind of harness issues would I come across?
 
Support = header panel. I believe you also have to wire them up differently? I'm sure Alexbougie will chime in about that though. I'm curious about what needs to be trimmed to fit them on the gen 1 header panel & if it still gets rid of the gap from the gen 2 conversion?
 
I read a thread on here before i joined that someone wrote and broke everything down to do this conversion with the gen 1 to make the hen 2 lse bumper fit with out the gap, but i can find it anymore:(
 
jolinc01 said:
Support = header panel. I believe you also have to wire them up differently? I'm sure Alexbougie will chime in about that though. I'm curious about what needs to be trimmed to fit them on the gen 1 header panel & if it still gets rid of the gap from the gen 2 conversion?
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it not really difficult to rewire the headlight but to fit genII headlight on the genI support it not a easy job I sugest you to buy the header panel then to custom fit on genI header panel.;)
 
Alright I'll do some reading into it...something I'm definitely interested in doing soon.

Right now I have a clunking noise going over bumps on the front driver side of the car. At first about 3 weeks ago it wasn't very loud at all and wrote it off as a bad strut. But now the sound has moved more towards the passenger side as well. Leading me to think it might be more than just a faulty strut. Any opinions before I just schedule a warranty service instead of replacing the front struts myself?
 
diskfunktional said:
Alright I'll do some reading into it...something I'm definitely interested in doing soon.

Right now I have a clunking noise going over bumps on the front driver side of the car. At first about 3 weeks ago it wasn't very loud at all and wrote it off as a bad strut. But now the sound has moved more towards the passenger side as well. Leading me to think it might be more than just a faulty strut. Any opinions before I just schedule a warranty service instead of replacing the front struts myself?
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loose ball joint? easy to check anyway.
 
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