Josef's 05 Aveo Hatchback LS Start through Finish!

Here is my 2005 Chevy Aveo from beginning to present day!
I've only had this car for a year now and love it despite the issues that I've had to fix/still fixing! :)
Attachment 7585My old 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 Pickup
Attachment 7587To a new used 2005 Chevrolett Aveo Ls Hatchback lol
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Attachment 7588Big man for a little car lol
Attachment 7590New stereo Head unit
Attachment 7589Installed
Attachment 7591Windows tinted 20% on rear half and 35% on front doors
Attachment 7592Back picture
Attachment 7593Head Unit again
Attachment 7594New Shift boot

Attachment 7595New headlights and taillights came in!
Attachment 7596Old headlights
Attachment 7597Old taillights
Attachment 7598Old headlights on
Attachment 7599Old taillights on
Attachment 7600New JunYan/Spec-D Tuning Halo Projector headlights
Attachment 7601New Taillights
Attachment 7602New Taillights
Attachment 7603New Subs, Amp, and Power Cap installed
Attachment 7604Again

Attachment 7605New Headlights only DRL on
Attachment 7606New Headlights turned off
Attachment 7607New Headlights turned on Side view
Attachment 7608Old Halogen Bulb Output
Attachment 7609Again
Attachment 7610New Kensun 6000K HIDs
Attachment 7611Again
Attachment 7612Old tires and 14 inch rims/hub cap lol
Attachment 7613Again, different view
Attachment 7614New Yokohama Avid Ascend Tires and New 15 Inch Sport-Tuning Rims from TireRack

Attachment 7615New Rims/Tires
Attachment 7616Again
Attachment 7617Again
Attachment 7618Tires work very well in Rain, Sleet, Snow, Mud, and Ice! I would definitely recommend!
Attachment 7620New Shark Fin Antenna
Attachment 7622Old Gages
Attachment 7623New Blue LED Lights behind gages!

Attachment 7625Headlights on road/ not as bright as it looks in person lol
Attachment 7627Stereo Head Unit again
Attachment 7628Subs again
Attachment 7629Amp and Power-Cap
Attachment 7630Subs, Amp and Power-Cap
Attachment 7624"Aveo in the Wild"! Haha Awesome picture though!
Attachment 7626My Aveo as of a few days ago after being all cleaned up!

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions about my Aveo!
Thank you for visiting this tread and looking through the photos!
-Josef

Nice Ride! I cleaned mine up today and took a couple pics. I haven't changed a lot on mine yet, money is always too tight. :/

Thanks man! Thats a pretty nice picture ya took there! lol and i know what you mean! almost every dime i make goes into my chevy for little things i wanna add to it lol the rest goes to my girlfriend haha

Looks good,throw an exhaust in there n call ber done, nice clean ride...

Sweet! Can't wait to get my baby up and running again. Any other plans?

Well I would like to install some blue interior accent lights under the dash to light up the floorboards and such, maybe paint the imprinted letters and such on the shift knob red, install blue led lights behind the a/c controls and everything, maybe paint the grey dash and doors black, and i think that is about it lol Most recently i installed an engine tank heater and i posted a thread in the how-tos section for the install. I also put Ultra Bright LED strips behind my eyebrow strip to brighten them up a lot :) I might do some things concerning performance but I'm not too sure lol

that car looks really sweet, from front to back and top to bottom!! especially love how those rims look on it really sweet!

ive got a ram air intake for like 30 bucks or so on ebay with filter, works and sound great seen about 1mpg + on average. but i have the same headlights. i was gonna get rims(some things have came up) and i want to do the exhaust (wife wont let me do that) lol. ive painted some of the interior stuff turquoise along with the bowtie and wiper blades because thats the color she wanted, dont look bad at all since the car is silver. (even though i drive it every day) ive got a feeling that we are going to give it back to my mother in law when we get another vehicle. but ive got easily $1,000 in it. but do note (ill take the intake off and use it on my blazer lol or other vehicle. im gonna hate to see this car go when it goes back to them.

have you had any problems with the halo leds flickering? mine filickers and then 2 burnt out, so i just unhooked them. (didnt have them installed mabe 3 months when that happned)

Note if you do get the intake from ebay the mounting bracket is crap youll probable have to rig up your own as i did but once you get past that obstacle i love the intake specially as eye candy and the sound!
here is a pic of the intake!Attachment 7687

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Well I would like to install some blue interior accent lights under the dash to light up the floorboards and such, maybe paint the imprinted letters and such on the shift knob red, install blue led lights behind the a/c controls and everything, maybe paint the grey dash and doors black, and i think that is about it lol Most recently i installed an engine tank heater and i posted a thread in the how-tos section for the install. I also put Ultra Bright LED strips behind my eyebrow strip to brighten them up a lot :) I might do some things concerning performance but I'm not too sure lol

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What part of Illinois are you from?
i'm near Litchfield

looks good. i would say give it a little drop and be done. simple and clean.
is there a diy for the blue gauges?

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http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag1943-jpgHeadlights on road/ not as bright as it looks in person lol
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag1979-jpgStereo Head Unit again
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...0000003172-jpgSubs again
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...0000009916-jpgAmp and Power-Cap
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...0000014374-jpgSubs, Amp and Power-Cap
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag1815-jpg"Aveo in the Wild"! Haha Awesome picture though!
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag1947-jpgMy Aveo as of a few days ago after being all cleaned up!

Let me know what you think or if you have any questions about my Aveo!
Thank you for visiting this tread and looking through the photos!
-Josef

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your aveo is beautiful!!!!!

jonellege - I havent had any flickering problems with the halos, but i know if you call spec=d tuning (where the headlights are sold from i believe) they will send you replacement ones lol they are the only place that carries the leds that fit the halos i think lol

MikeC06 - near Springfield

TickleTimeTim - i dont see a drop any time in my near future lol i just dont like being low to the ground lol and its pretty self explanatory, you just unscrew the screws that are visible directly above the gages and disassemble it all lol The lights just screw out. here are the lights i used from ebay 6X Bright Blue T10 Wedge 6 SMD LED Dashboard Instrument Panel Indicator Light | eBay

BabyBlue2010 - Thank you so much!

Yeah I believe your right. I thought about putting the ccfl in but dobt have tge tine to do it so I haven't even bothred. Ill deffeantly see about getting with them and see about a set!

I feel like it would be difficult to replace it with ccfl's just because youd have to take apart the whole headlight and hope it goes back together as nice as it wasw before lol

I've took mine on my s10 blazer off to paint the inside white it was prettu easy the libgest part was waif ing on the paint to dry. But it looks great! Dont know if I wanna put the time into it because once we get anorher car thar one is gonna go back to my mother inlaw and father inlawand I've got quite a bit in it lol!

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http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0418-jpgNew headlights and taillights came in!
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0420-jpgOld headlights
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0426-jpgOld taillights
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0437-jpgOld headlights on
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0443-jpgOld taillights on
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0447-jpgNew JunYan/Spec-D Tuning Halo Projector headlights
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0451-jpgNew Taillights
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0453-jpgNew Taillights
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0454-jpgNew Subs, Amp, and Power Cap installed
http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/attac...h-imag0455-jpgAgain

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What kind of Head lights and taillights did you purchase? I really love how your Aveo came out! great work!

I got the JunYan/Spec-D Tuning Halo Projector headlights off of ebay. Here is a link that shouldve been what I got:

04 08 Aveo AVEO5 Hatchback Projector Headlights Black LED Tail Lamps Red | eBay

And thank you for the compliments!

I have been looking at those lights for sometime. Thanks for buying them and putting pictures up. Still undecided but closer!

Yeah I had a hell of a time finding people on here that had good pictures with the lights on their Aveos and there was practically nothing anywhere on the internet also lol I figured I could help a few people decide if they wanted them or not lol the one thing I did do is I got some MAX LED strips and slid them through the eyebrow bulb slot in order to make the eyebrow visible during the day.
Without lights on.
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With lights on.
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Now that is good to know about the eyebrow lights. I in the process of "un-trashing" my car after two "incidents" I will need to replace the headlights and strongly considering 1) Mod the existing Aveo 2006 design or 2) Buy the above lights.

Now if I buy said lights, a couple of questions:
1) Are you satisfied with illumination at night? (I know you took a picture but it's really hard to tell.) An other way to ask the question are they better than stock?
2) Did you have to break the seal to put in the LED strip? Did you put in relay to bypass the half voltage for daylights or is that somehow built into the light? Or did you run the LED strip on the half voltage?
3) A lot of those lights have two blue LEDs, do you find them annoying?

Thanks for putting up the pictures. It's really appreciated.

I absolutely love these lights at night! The eyebrow is very bright at night as well as the two LED's on either headlight, but I don't believe it impacts oncoming traffic or the person I am driving behind. The two halo rings on either headlight are not very visible on sunny days, but fairly visible on cloudy days, and perfectly visible at night. The headlights come with stock H1 Halogen bulbs in the projector housing which I swapped out with Kensun 6000K HID Bulbs (Kensun HID Xenon Headlights). The hookup was simple and I just ziptied the Ballasts to the frame near where the shocks, i believe, are mounted under the hood. In order to make the HID's compatable with the car you have to disable the DRl's (Daytime Running Lights) which just consists of disconnecting a connector under the dash (http://www.aveoforum.com/forum/f94/drl-7226/). If you connect the HID's with the DRL module connected then while in DRL mode, the HID's will flicker and could blow up or burn out because of not getting proper running voltage. After disabling the DRL's the voltage will now stay at full voltage whether you have the switch on Daytime Running Light mode or headlight mode. I just tapped the MAX LED strips into the wires that originally had the halogen bulb in the eyebrow. There is a rubber base that the bulb originally clipped into that I just sealed the wires of the Max LED into the headlight. It really isn't a problem to worry about :)
I hope that answered everything!

I was looking at lights again. I got my car apart and about to order. I was looking at lights carefully again, I get the idea there is only one headlight per headlight and NOT one headlight per projector. Is that correct?

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I was looking at lights again. I got my car apart and about to order. I was looking at lights carefully again, I get the idea there is only one headlight per headlight and NOT one headlight per projector. Is that correct?

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Ok the stock headlight has one bulb thats had high and low filaments. The projector headlights have 2 bulbs per headlight one bulb for a low beam ( the low beams have a shield to block the light from blinding oncoming traffic.) And a high beam bulb. If you buy the headlights. It has an adapter that you just plug up no modification required. All you have to hook up is the halo's, and the led's if you want them to work. But it cones to me as easy because I used to be a mechanic. So it's a simple job to hook then up.

Thanks for the reply jonelledge. I almost get what you are saying. So let's talk in pictures. Questions are on the picture. In fact anybody who has worked with the SpecD projector headlight can add their "illumination" on the subject (pun intended).
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Thanks for the reply jonelledge. I almost get what you are saying. So let's talk in pictures. Questions are on the picture. In fact anybody who has worked with the SpecD projector headlight can add their "illumination" on the subject (pun intended).
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Ok ill take a couple of pics of mine in a little bit and uplignition is o. ad them tonight. But the low beam is a projector. The high beam does NOT have a projector (only the low beam) and the bulb that you asked is a turn signal. It can be if you wire it up to the turn signal. But you have to do yhe wiring and stuff for it. I put led, s in mine and got them wired tp say on when the Ignition is on. But ill take close ups.