Honda Amaze VX i-DTEC Ownership Review

[Ajay Sreedhar]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Ever since the odd brown dashboard starts to worry me, i started thinking over it to get rid of the brown color dash board. Since i don't want to harm it, i first opted for the Carbon Fiber Look alike Wrap which was good at the primary stages and later on it started accumulating bubbles and hence decided to giveaway the wraps.

Then came the idea of Painting the Odd brown panels to black

With the Help of an Automotive Refreshing Center here, I got the Panel's painted in Matt black and Satin Silver which on fixing look's bloody AWESOME !!

I would say, this is the best Modification Job that I've done on my car till now and I'm very much satisfied !!

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Closeup view of the Odometer area. Looks way cooler !!

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All the Brown pad's where changed to Black.

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Thats looks awsome man. Much Much better than the the stock brown centre console. A big thumbs up

 

[BrioLover]

Aah this looks cool. Where did you get ideas to do these many DIYs. You are a King of DIYs.

 

[CRACING]

Thankyou

Well it ain't good as i expected. If you are parking your car under the sun for a lot, then it is not at all recommended. The blades are too soft and once it get's hard cause of heat, then it's the worst. Life of the blades are very low. Either go for Hella or Bosch Frameless wipers or stick on with the stock kinda wiper blades.I will soon switch back or change to hella or boach one's !

Thanks for the info.

I liked the frameless kinda wipers but pity the same made by Hella or Bosch costs 5 times more. Of course there is a difference in quality.

I use my car very rare, not even a 100km per month and I keep the car in a shed always so no heat. Think I should try once and see how really they work for me.

 

[CRACING]

btw; forgot to ask you another thing. Did you changed the stock horns? Any recommendations for that? My car has stock horns and not so loud so would like to change as well. Something like VW effect horns.

 

[venkythaniks]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Ever since the odd brown dashboard starts to worry me, i started thinking over it to get rid of the brown color dash board. Since i don't want to harm it, i first opted for the Carbon Fiber Look alike Wrap which was good at the primary stages and later on it started accumulating bubbles and hence decided to giveaway the wraps.
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Vishnu, the car interior now looks super cool. Good choice of colors.

 

[jdtec]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Ever since the odd brown dashboard starts to worry me, i started thinking over it to get rid of the brown color dash board. Since i don't want to harm it, i first opted for the Carbon Fiber Look alike Wrap which was good at the primary stages and later on it started accumulating bubbles and hence decided to giveaway the wraps.

Then came the idea of Painting the Odd brown panels to black

With the Help of an Automotive Refreshing Center here, I got the Panel's painted in Matt black and Satin Silver which on fixing look's bloody AWESOME !!

I would say, this is the best Modification Job that I've done on my car till now and I'm very much satisfied !!

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Closeup view of the Odometer area. Looks way cooler !!

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All the Brown pad's where changed to Black.

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awesome work done. even i dont like the brown coloured dash. i think u should mail and tweet these pics to honda India and show them how cool black colour dashboard looks

 

[harry10]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

awesome work done. even i dont like the brown coloured dash. i think u should mail and tweet these pics to honda India and show them how cool black colour dashboard looks

Honda Amaze now comes with black dashboard only.

 

[tai_newbie]

Dashboard Painted Up

Awesome job dude. I like your attitude to give the best for your ride. Way to go....

 

[BODHI]

Really Honda Amaze comes with black interiors? Whole black interiors instead of beige or only brown part?

 

[jdtec]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Honda Amaze now comes with black dashboard only.

do you have any picture of all black dashboard

 

[vishnu vichu]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Hey Vishnu, how is your Amaze doing buddy and what is your feedback to others on this car

As you can see, amaze is performing wonderfully. Each and every tweaks i make, made it even better !

Thats looks awsome man. Much Much better than the the stock brown centre console. A big thumbs up

Thanks alot .

Aah this looks cool. Where did you get ideas to do these many DIYs. You are a King of DIYs.

That was a great honor to me

Thanks for the info.

I liked the frameless kinda wipers but pity the same made by Hella or Bosch costs 5 times more. Of course there is a difference in quality.

I use my car very rare, not even a 100km per month and I keep the car in a shed always so no heat. Think I should try once and see how really they work for me.

Then i suppose the Frame less one's i bought would be much effective to you rather me. Go, give it a try then.

btw; forgot to ask you another thing. Did you changed the stock horns? Any recommendations for that? My car has stock horns and not so loud so would like to change as well. Something like VW effect horns.

i changed the stock horns to Roots Windtone. It kinda got the VW effect.

Vishnu, the car interior now looks super cool. Good choice of colors.

Thanks a lot bro :)

awesome work done. even i dont like the brown coloured dash. i think u should mail and tweet these pics to honda India and show them how cool black colour dashboard looks

That would be too much right ?

Honda Amaze now comes with black dashboard only.

But not with the Brushed aluminium insert's

Awesome job dude. I like your attitude to give the best for your ride. Way to go....

That's the best thing we can do.

Really Honda Amaze comes with black interiors? Whole black interiors instead of beige or only brown part?

Yea, The 2014 Amaze comes with all black dash board panels. Only the Brown parts.

do you have any picture of all black dashboard

Somebody posted this on some other forum.This is how the 2014 Amaze dashboard looks like.

 

[CRACING]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

I changed the stock horns to Roots Windtone. It kinda got the VW effect.

Great, thats what I was looking for. Do they require relay or can be directly replaced from stock?

 

[vishnu vichu]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Great, thats what I was looking for. Do they require relay or can be directly replaced from stock?

Relay and an extra fuse for the horn makes it safe. I'm running on this setup.

 

[mastiandroid5]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Put the wipers into service position and clean the blades with a tissue paper. After that you can use a duster to dust the particles on the windscreen without harming the glass. Try not to use the wiper's with dust particles accumulated on the wiper blades.

Thanks for the tip. I need to get a good duster to remove the dust first.

The problem is, in the morning, there is due over the windshield as well as the car roof. When I wipe this off with a cloth, I guess these scratches are occurring.

Ever since the odd brown dashboard starts to worry me, i started thinking over it to get rid of the brown color dash board. Since i don't want to harm it, i first opted for the Carbon Fiber Look alike Wrap which was good at the primary stages and later on it started accumulating bubbles and hence decided to giveaway the wraps.

Then came the idea of Painting the Odd brown panels to black

Absolutely stunning look!!! The contrast between the black dashboard and the off-white A-pillars/etc looks good.

What type of paint was used? How much did it cost you for this job?

 

[vishnu vichu]

Re: Dashboard Painted Up

Thanks for the tip. I need to get a good duster to remove the dust first.

The problem is, in the morning, there is due over the windshield as well as the car roof. When I wipe this off with a cloth, I guess these scratches are occurring.

Duster will be helping you there. Or else you wash the whole windscreen with water and then use a microfiber cloth or cham leather.

Absolutely stunning look!!! The contrast between the black dashboard and the off-white A-pillars/etc looks good.

What type of paint was used? How much did it cost you for this job?

it costed me 3.5 k. The wooden finished stickers from Honda cost me around 6 k here. so it's far better.