Auto: Tesla Model S Rim Protector Installation

Rim protector installed!
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After the rim scratch on the Tesla Rally day, my mother-in-law found in her home the lost rim protector I bought through a Tesla Motors Club group buy. C'est la vie, isn't it? You just can't find something before you need it. I thought I was never going to recover it so I bought another set from Taobao, this time from a different company which is selling something similar but at RMB 99 only.

Rim protector worths RMB 99 from Taobao
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The ad definitely has the brand KABRIS on it, but the box definitely doesn't have that.

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Unboxed and found a 3M(?) 94 Primer, I wonder if 3M has ever produced any primer of this size.

The Rim protector itself
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The rim protector comes with 3M (?) double-sided tape on one side, but the rim protector itself is of a pretty cheesy quality. Oh well, what should I expect from a RMB 99 purchase? Here's a video I made, because I didn't have a spare pair of hands, I could not show the actually installation process, but I must say, I put in a lot of elbow grease.

and I followed the guide here:

Can you see the protector?
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The result is not at all obvious.

Very subtle, isn't it?
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But being subtle is kind of my style.

I left the car there overnight for more than 12 hours,

After a day, two of the protectors on the back wheel fell off, leaving only the front wheels. I am left with enough blue rim protector for 1 more wheel, so should I have 3 wheels blue and 1 wheel black?



Vocabulary:
cheesy  -- (adj) informal clearly of cheap quality or in bad style
elbow grease -- (n)[U] informal a lot of physical effort



Resources:

Tesla Model S Rim Protector Installation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-YhvwoiWEc&list=PLpmeKgu8vwcl7VqnS5yHilZ3EHGL2IMCT

Auto & Event: Tesla Rally Hong Kong 2014 & Shark Conservation @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.hk/2015/01/auto-event-tesla-rally-hong-kong-2014.html.

Rimblades Fitting Guide +YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1s7U8aX4U

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/cheesy_1
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/elbow-grease