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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve) 06/10/2016 at 09:29 • Filed to: Classic Soft Trim, CST

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So yesterday we got a car in that had a positively nasty interior. It was for a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! , but one that also does “guaranteed approval,” weekly-payment loans like a BHPH place.

So we put this interior in it - the leather is from the mid-2000s when the company I work for had a contract with Mitsubishi USA to do all of their dealer-installed leather interior. It looks good to me. But, damn.

And on the outside:

It’s dinged up, scratched, and has a top-end rattle in the engine, as though it’s lived a hard, poorly-maintained life.

Also, I learned that chrome wheel covers for alloys are a thing:

That’s a painted alloy wheel behind the plastic wheel cover. Tacky.

E90M3 > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 09:36

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Wait, do those wheels say jeep on them?

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > E90M3 06/10/2016 at 09:39

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Notice the Jeep parked behind the Mitsu

Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 09:39

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Chrome wheel covers. So Silly. Much meh.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > E90M3 06/10/2016 at 09:40

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There’s a hole in the center of the cover so the factory cap can show.

Funktheduck > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 09:53

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As far as I know all new trucks do the wheel covers now. It's cheaper and lighter. Everything I've seen from FCA, GM, and I've seen it on new Lexus(s)

crowmolly > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 09:58

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Yeah, the plastic cover over a wheel has been a thing for a while. At least since 2007 or so.

E90M3 > Life and Times of Magoo: The People's Champ 06/10/2016 at 10:03

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Ah, I see that now

E90M3 > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 10:04

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My friends 1999 Ford Ranger came with something similar. We were like what the hell are these, so we took them off.

CalzoneGolem > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 10:09

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This thread is confusing me. I’m confused why you’d do either of these things.

I mean that Mitsu interior is pretty jammin’ but why in there?

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > CalzoneGolem 06/10/2016 at 10:14

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The leather kit was on clearance. The cost to detail it enough to put it on the lot - oil stained seats and so on - would have been more than they paid for the leather interior. So by paying for the leather installation they can charge an extra $1200 for the car and only pay to have the carpets shampooed and the plastic armor-all-ified.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > crowmolly 06/10/2016 at 10:15

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I’ve seen plastic covers on steelies forever. But on alloys it’s weird to me.

CalzoneGolem > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 10:17

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That makes sense. A pretty thorough exterior detail and it’ll be good to go haha.

Meatcoma > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection 06/10/2016 at 10:22

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When alloys look like shit, covers cover them. But yea, plastic covers have been around forever it seems.