Car Accessories

As mentioned in my earlier post, I wanted to restore the car and ended up buying many replacement parts and new accessories for the car Besides the lights and rims, I installed new alarm system, parking sensors, gear knob and steering wheel. Also, ordered many replacement parts from Kah Motors. These include passenger door handle (interior), roof handle, centre aircon cover, door stopper, tilter fastener, roof slider protector. The parts (prices at below post) took around a month to be shipped to Singapore from Japan. As promised, below are the photos.

Accessories and Replacement Parts

Momo Steering Wheel



New Gear Knob

Replaced damaged centre aircon vent with new part

Replaced cracked passenger handle with new part



New fasteners for centre tilter

Replaced roof slider protector. Top is the damaged piece.

New door stopper

New roof handle (driver's side)

New Rear Mirror

New parking/reverse sensor with indicator

New Rims!!!

When I took over the car, Mr T had changed the rims (brand: SSP). He told me that the old rims (Rota) and tires previously used by Mr L was going bald and ride was too low for him. He changed the rims and tyre size from 195/55/15 to 195/60/15. This resulted the tyres being too thick and almost touching the fenders. Problem with this was that the larger tires put a lot of stress on the driveshaft and also burn more petrol. Anyway, I told him I wanted both sets of rims/tires.

For the rota rims, I advertised at SHC and sold it off for $2XX. Went shopping for new rims at Silent, Leong Seng, Coco, Stamford etc. Wanted to change to 205/45/16 for better fit. Initially shortlisted this Konig rims, model Incoming. Calvin from LS suggested the rims to complement the car - towards more design styling rather than sporty. Last Saturday, decided to get the rims from LS. On my way there, I drove past this rim shop (Hong Tyre) at Jalan Jurong Kecil (opposite Bt Timah CC). Went down to take a look at saw this deep dish rim. Boss told me brand was RM. It was perfect as the offset was 38. Mr L told me before if offset is 35, the rims/tires will be flushed with the car body. Fell in love with it and decided to get it. Boss was super friendly and patient, even suggesting to INSTALL to see how it will look on my car. No obligation to buy! But I had already decided to buy. Negotiated for the price and trade-in for the existing rims. The process was quick. New rims were onto my car within 20-30mins. The boss also threw in a 3mm wheel spacer to make the rims flushed.

Went home happy but realised that 2 of the wheel caps were not perfectly in place and went back to the shop again. Super duper after sales service! Took out the 2 wheel caps and replace with new ones! No questions asked! Impressed!

Changing to New Rims

Rota rims that I sold away

Konig Incoming which I initially wanted to get

Hong Tyre Shop front

Changing the rims at the back of Hong Tyre

Before and After

New rims from front and back

Importing Rear Lights and Headlights

One of the things that I didn't like was the red rear lights. Look too dated. Decided to find replacement. Went to ebay motors to search for the lights and found a pair that I like very much. It has the CF look. The e-store in US also sell headlights and I decided to get a pair of crystal headlights, in case I decide to replace the front customised CF headlights. Amazingly, the freight charges were more expensive than the lights!

Once the lights arrived, I went down to this shop in Geylang (Soon Lee Accessories, Tel 67414010) where it is famous for installing alarms, sound system, reverse sensor etc. I installed my new alarm there and parking sensors (4 sensors) there. They also installed the rear lights for me but the brackets were not able to fit the the rear lights properly. The lights were protuding slightly outwards. Told me to go to spray shop to fix the brackets. I decided not to install the headlights for the time being as the CF rear lights match the front CF headlights.

As mentioned earlier, I also needed to fix my front bumper due to the small cracks. Went down to Lee and Soon Paintworks and after 1 week, viola! My front bumper looks perfect again and the rear lights are put in place. Hooray!

Imported Rear Lights

Before After