I bought my 04 SLE on 11 July with 108,051, so far in one week I've done the following:
Tinted Windows
Painted Calipers
So what's next???

Progress Pics:

Day I got it:


Tinted Windows:


Today Painted Calipers:

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04 Bonneville SLE
04 Black Mach 1 (Auto) 12.882@105.14
90 Mustang GT 12.456@111.39
96 Mystic Cobra 15.085@93.80

Not sure if I like the red calipers. I think I'm going to do mine black, just to get them to look nice. Otherwise a great looking car!!!

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Bye Bye:

RIP sandrock

Well not much to add here, I've put 600+ miles on the car since I got it and I'm averaging 26 MPG.

I'm leaving on a 12 day road trip on Monday, I'll see how well the SLE does then.

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04 Bonneville SLE
04 Black Mach 1 (Auto) 12.882@105.14
90 Mustang GT 12.456@111.39
96 Mystic Cobra 15.085@93.80

Not a fan of the red calipers but to each his own! Otherwise the SLE looks good. What percent tint did you go with?

Good luck on the road trip & have fun! Where are you going?

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'93 SSE "Guinevere" RIP 1993 - 2019
'01 SSEi "Chloe" Mods: Intense FWI | GenV | WBS Intercooled | 3.2 MPS | 1.9 YT Rockers | SSAC Headers | N* TB | TEP Trans | 3.29 FDR | Torsen LSD
DTM Tuned | Dual AeroForce | Solid Mounts | 255 Walbro Pump | Fuel Logs | GXP STB & Sway Bars | CSS Lowering Springs | GXP Brakes | Disabled DRL
Magnaflow Mufflers | Magnaflow Cat | GXP Seats & Trim | 35 % Tint | Cleared & Tinted Tails | repinS Retrofited Morimoto Mini H1 | 19" GT500 Wheels
'09 G8 GT "Abigail" Mods: Rotofab | LS3 Heads, Intake & Cam | Kooks LT | Solo Exhaust | Tien Springs w/ GXP Struts | Whiteline Swaybars | BMR Subframe Connectors
Achievements: Guinevere - 264k mi | 16.27 @ 84.10mph | March '11 COTM :: Chloe - 223k mi | 13.85 @ 102mph | January '09 COTM :: Abigail - 192k mi | 12.85 @ 112mph

35% Front and 20% Rear (Idaho Legal)

I thought calipers were suppose to be RED

I got all my stangs painted that way too

Plain calipers are just so boring.

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04 Bonneville SLE
04 Black Mach 1 (Auto) 12.882@105.14
90 Mustang GT 12.456@111.39
96 Mystic Cobra 15.085@93.80

The GXP calipers came red. The rest of them came black AFAIK.

Planning on painting mine gold, so mine won't be plain either.

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'93 SSE "Guinevere" RIP 1993 - 2019
'01 SSEi "Chloe" Mods: Intense FWI | GenV | WBS Intercooled | 3.2 MPS | 1.9 YT Rockers | SSAC Headers | N* TB | TEP Trans | 3.29 FDR | Torsen LSD
DTM Tuned | Dual AeroForce | Solid Mounts | 255 Walbro Pump | Fuel Logs | GXP STB & Sway Bars | CSS Lowering Springs | GXP Brakes | Disabled DRL
Magnaflow Mufflers | Magnaflow Cat | GXP Seats & Trim | 35 % Tint | Cleared & Tinted Tails | repinS Retrofited Morimoto Mini H1 | 19" GT500 Wheels
'09 G8 GT "Abigail" Mods: Rotofab | LS3 Heads, Intake & Cam | Kooks LT | Solo Exhaust | Tien Springs w/ GXP Struts | Whiteline Swaybars | BMR Subframe Connectors
Achievements: Guinevere - 264k mi | 16.27 @ 84.10mph | March '11 COTM :: Chloe - 223k mi | 13.85 @ 102mph | January '09 COTM :: Abigail - 192k mi | 12.85 @ 112mph

The pics probably don't do the brakes justice. The car is silver so I'm sure in person it looks a lot better. A lot of silver GXP's with red calipers and they look great (ok, so the GXP wheels are killer compared to 17" Torquestars).

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DHP Powrtuner & Tech 2
1998 GTP Coupe
1999 SSEi 70k miles
2000 Silverado 2500 Ext Cab 4x4/6.0L/4L80E
2000 Trans Am WS6 LQ3 (LQ4 w/LS3 top end) 4L60E
2001 SLE
2002 Monte Carlo SS Top-swapped FSIC Gen V TOG's, Mezeire.....
2002 GTP 40th Anniv Ed Coupe
2004 GTP Comp G 'Bottom-swapped'

Very nice! Haven't been a fan of painted calipers, but maybe I'll change my mind an see how my wife's car looks with them black. Hers is the same color as yours.

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1988 SSE-Gone but not forgotten.
2001 SSEI-304,572 miles, 3.5 Pulley, Intense PCM, Intense FWI Spectre filter, 160 tstat, ngk iridiums, belden wires, Silverstars-high and low beam, rebuilt tranny, shift kit, cooler, Dex VI fluid, replace the rear compressor and lines and level sensor, Monroe air shocks in back, FE5 struts and Moog strut mounts, Moog stabilizer bars, AC\Delco control arms.

2004 SLE-Stock, 195,000 miles,oldest son's baby now

2000 Ford Ranger-Stock, 352,000 hard, pizza delivery miles, new control arms (upper and lower), new(used) tranny

Good lookin' ride man! And I'm diggin the red on the calipers, keep up the good work.

Joe.

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2005 Pontiac Grand Prix GXP, 5.3L LS4 V8
SOLD--->2002 WS6, cammed, stalled, spray 11.152@122.224mph, CPT Pro-Race 4L60E Tuned by Bluecat
Rides, past and present