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That's what I'm calling my husbands attempt at installing the JDP Colored Halo Kit. Neither of us really being "car guys" and having very little to no experience working on cars other than the normal stuff like changing the oil or a tire, my husbands attempt at installing the JDP Halo kit turned into a nightmare. I came out to see how it was going, he'd been outside, in the driveway not in a garage on a concrete floor, for an hour or so. Well I almost fainted seeing my husbands legs dangling out from under the car which was raised up just barely enough for him to slither under to remove the belly pan. Raised up how, on a bunch of scrap pieces of wood, and then I watched him jack up the side of the car so he could put a jack stand underneath, using a two ton jack which I think is insufficient, and jack stands that looked even weaker. But when I saw the jack POP out and the car come down onto the jack crushing the body molding, which somehow didn't permanently damage, I said STOP, we're done. We don't have the right tools and equipment to do this job and its completely unsafe.

My husband has done numerous mods to this car like the sequential taillights, ghosted side markers, Roto Fab Cold Air Intake and even installed the RX Catch Can with no problems whatsoever. But with this install we are over our heads. Watching the JDP install video on an SS, the ZL1 has all kinds of extra screws and bolts that the SS doesn't so when my husband was looking into the wheelwell to remove the liner, I think at that point he realized he was over his head and the whole setup was way to dangerous. He really needed to remove the tire and on those jack stands I said, no way, we're done.

I absolutely love these halo lights, and I wanted to put the grille (red) LEDs in at the same time and run the wire harness as one. I think he could easily do all that part of the install fairly easy, but getting the front clip/fascia off was/is too much. Not having the proper equipment and tools. Forget it, too dangerous. So I checked into some shop time, cheapest was around $100 an hour and none had ever did an install like this, not even one shop I could find had removed the front fascia on a ZL1. So I'd be looking at four hours or so plus the cost of the lights, way way too expensive. I'd love to have these installed, but the final cost would be around $700 plus. Way out of our budget. So everything is on hold for now.

Then as luck would have it, don't you know it, our Noweeds exhaust system came in, and my husband said that's an easy install. But I'm thinking my husband will be underneath the car for most of that install, and after what I witnessed, I'm definitely not comfortable with that thought. You need four good heavy duty jack stands, he has two and they are junk so I cant even imagine what I'd possibly see him doing, but I'm sure it wouldn't be the safest. You need the right tools and equipment to do the job right. I almost feel like YELLING HELP! I don't want my husband getting crushed to death. Although with what I witnessed I did go and immediately make out a check for this months Life Insurance payment. Seriously, I've got to come up with something, or the worst case scenario will be to return this light kit, which I don't want to do unless its a last resort. The Noweeds I can some shop time and they can cut and install the Diverter in an hour at most the. We can do the wiring from there, so the shop time on that one I can handle.

Anyway; here's a picture of what was almost my husbands last day on earth!
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