What did you do to your Kia Stinger today?

[Deviate]

Recovering from a knee replacement. Doctor said to keep knee elevated, which I read as lie down ( while keeping leg up ), which means work on car in the reclined position with leg elevated, right ?

While following doctor's orders and as a result of boredom, I decided to do the following.

Rear diffuser panel before.
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Stage 1.
Remove rear diffuser panel ( 5 min job ).
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Stage 2.
Paint area behind panel ( 5 min job ).
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Stage 3.
Trim out all the little flats in the panel ( about 4 hours ).
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Stage 4.
Paint panel to match bumper and reinstall.
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It's not "perfect" up close but it's now functional and I enjoyed a day of my recovery.

Get better my friend!

 

[AusStinger]

Get better my friend!

Thank you. Work in progress.

 

[StingerVetteMan]

Installed front and rear splash guards on my new 2023 GT-Line Apex Edition and then drove around for around an hour while a software update installed.

 

[undymm]

As promised, I am sending photos of the steering wheel from Alibaba. I ordered all the details - shape, leather color, steering wheel color, stitching color, steering wheel heating. The price was 450 USD including Fedex shipping to Europe in 4 days.

 

[Devin]

Sold it!

 

[Transmetal]

Sold it!

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Why? Not for that Mach E abomination I hope?

 

[Snicklefritz]

Sold it!

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You didn't announce this intention previously, did you? Seems sudden like.

 

[Devin]

You didn't announce this intention previously, did you? Seems sudden like.

There are external factors that caused this. Just gonna be driving the SHO for a while...

 

[Devin]

Why? Not for that Mach E abomination I hope?

lol, not even if it was possible! I'm a sedan guy.

 

[Devin]

Turns out I still have a Stinger!

 

[LordKOTL]

Turns out I still have a Stinger!

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TIL that Hot Wheels made a Stinger!

 

[Buzzman12]

What did I do to my Stinger today? NOTHING. That's the problem.
We are in the dead centre of winter season right now, and my poor car is sitting all alone in the garage.
There haven't been enough dry days to allow the roads to clear up, so I don't dare take the car out and drive it in the salty slush.
It is my forever car, and I'm going to baby it.
I look at it every day, just sitting in the garage, and I swear it's crying a bit. "Please take me out of here". Boo hoo.
I hate winter.

 

[RedCal]

What did I do to my Stinger today? NOTHING. That's the problem.
We are in the dead centre of winter season right now, and my poor car is sitting all alone in the garage.
There haven't been enough dry days to allow the roads to clear up, so I don't dare take the car out and drive it in the salty slush.
It is my forever car, and I'm going to baby it.
I look at it every day, just sitting in the garage, and I swear it's crying a bit. "Please take me out of here". Boo hoo.
I hate winter.

A little interior detailing will get you some time with it

 

[Snicklefritz]

TIL that Hot Wheels made a Stinger!

Funny. Hot Wheels made four, actually, first year Blue, then Ceramic, then Red and finished up with Black/Panthera, I can't tell for sure that small which it is.

 

[Transmetal]

What did I do to my Stinger today? NOTHING. That's the problem.
We are in the dead centre of winter season right now, and my poor car is sitting all alone in the garage.
There haven't been enough dry days to allow the roads to clear up, so I don't dare take the car out and drive it in the salty slush.
It is my forever car, and I'm going to baby it.
I look at it every day, just sitting in the garage, and I swear it's crying a bit. "Please take me out of here". Boo hoo.
I hate winter.

At least that's better than daily driving it like I have to. I store the Lightning in the winter since it's lived 99.9% of it's life in FL, besides the year my dad bought it new here. So it gets the baby treatment and the Stinger has it rough.

Sure, it's still only 3 years old but MN winters are rough on a car, well, usually (it's been pretty tame thus far) all that nasty salt eating away at stuff. Wish I had a nice 3 car garage with a hose and a drain like this guy I know at work. He literally sprays underneath his car every couple of days. His garage is also heated........... jealous!

 

[RWTD_Burn]

Nothing special but added these padded shifter extensions.

 

[Ohiocruiser]

Fabricated "brace and support in one" for back liner, since the spare is out.

 

[Snicklefritz]

Fabricated "brace and support in one" for back liner, since the spare is out.View attachment 84409

Explain, please. What is that supposed to do?

 

[Buzzman12]

A little interior detailing will get you some time with it

That would be nice, but it's a single car garage with not much room, and it's not heated.
Can't really do anything out there when it's this cold. Boo hoo.

 

[Buzzman12]

At least that's better than daily driving it like I have to. I store the Lightning in the winter since it's lived 99.9% of it's life in FL, besides the year my dad bought it new here. So it gets the baby treatment and the Stinger has it rough.

Sure, it's still only 3 years old but MN winters are rough on a car, well, usually (it's been pretty tame thus far) all that nasty salt eating away at stuff. Wish I had a nice 3 car garage with a hose and a drain like this guy I know at work. He literally sprays underneath his car every couple of days. His garage is also heated........... jealous!

December was pretty good up here. We had a green Christmas and I was able to drive the Stinger, much to my delight.
Unfortunately, January has not been kind. It seems like it's snowing every second day since New Year.
The use of road salt in my City is criminal. They spread it around before anything even happens, just in case.
There is not a single car around here older than about 5-6 years that doesn't have rust showing somewhere.
I am driving the Mazda for the first time in winter (I had an older Pathfinder that was my winter beater before this year),
and I take a bucket or two of hot water out there whenever I come home and wash as much of the salt off as I can.
I'm already looking around at finding an older 4X4 for next winter to use as my beater.