Her are some pics of an UPYOURKIA customers customized Sportage<img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> Did some pretty great body work.
Nice camo job and mud look!!!










ONE KIA YOU DON'T WANT TO MESS WITH!!

If only you could get the 2nd row doors to stay functional, that would be a BA chop job. Nice looking rig regardless.

Nice! Custom Job! x2 bout the 2nd row doors. I always wanted a 4dr short bed and I love my Kia that would be perfect. Kinda like a beefed up Subaru Baja.

Exactly!

Nice work and PIC there for sure <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

Here's mine before and after with upyourkia 2" spacers and TJ106 rear springs. Tires are BFG 30 x 9.5 on 15" Cragars.

BEFORE


AFTER

Looks really good!! Did you install the lift or someone else?

That's at a Sears Auto Center is it not? Looks like their wheels, tires, and garage.

Thanks! Yeah I did it myself at work. The front was kind of a [censored], but everything came together nicely.

Haha, no, that's the shop where I work. I'm a tech at a Volvo dealership. I got the wheels from Summit, and the tires are a used set I scored from craigslist.

Volvo tech eh? Just did a timing belt and water pump on an S70 Thursday I think it was.. not as bad as I thought it would be.. funny thing. We called the dealer to buy bolts for the crank pulley cause Mitchell1 says they are one time use (torque to yeild). Using them again and they supposedly break. Well we call and they shrug and said the techs have never asked for those parts before and have never had a comeback for them breaking neither.. lol. So we just used the old bolts as well. other than that, it was a breeze.

The lead master tech next stall over was working on a newer audi w/ 2.7l v6 in search of a coolant leak.. he had to remove the front end literally. everything from the radiator forward comes off with the bumper. He had the exhaust, tranny, and other here and there's off also. and just the week before, the customer had the tranny out for something else. within the last year they have spend $6000 on this car!! heck with that, dude I payed $6500 for my kia and spent only like $800 in mechanical minus tires. I think audi/vw's are cool as hell to drive, but I'd never own one <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" /> Needless to say, the tech spent a few days on that car and lost money on it (flat rate) big time.