I can see where your wheel wells have dug grooves into your tire sidewall. You realize your new cut/jagged edge will likely tear the tire up more, no?

 

Alright, cut off like two inches of the fender around all the wheels and then fab up some huge fender flares! And then make it 4wd and it'll be cool.

 

alright now im starting to

 

I heard that stuff is fat free, has zero trans fats, no carbs and actually dissolves fat... I need some of that

 

I know some guys that make some genuine white lightning; if you ever need some, swing by.

 

i grinded it down so it shouldnt be so jagged..

 

But do you see the damage that has already happened to your tires? They're still going to hit, and now the surface is rougher and less broad then before.

 

Good freakin god man....can we repo this car for all things good about Maximas...this car is being ghettofied!..I initially praised you for doing what you want but holy hell man, step away from the grinder.

 

gesh whats next 33s and a lift?

 

im hoping that that gives the tire enough room to travel. and im pretty sure i accomplished that cuz that lip was pretty big. u cant even see the cut unless u look under the car.. lol

 

CLOSE!
but not quite..

 

What a shame...such a rust free 3rd gen...it had sooo much potential.

RIP Maxima....may this kid kill you quickly.

 

I see a horrible death involving a river w/ a broken bridge and a dirt road in its future...

 

I was all for doing your own thing till you busted out the grinder, that **** was just plain stupid...

 

I was all for ya at first cuz im young too and have a tight budget but damn son...

 

So.. my question is, what exactly was wrong with the stock wheels?

 

Not redneck enough.

 

lol no really

 

ask that same question to anybody that puts rims on a car. theres nuthing wrong with the stock rims.. but i wanted something different. i like the style of the rims so thats why i put them on.

 

Good enough reason but going from aluminum/alloy to steel isn't always an upgrade. You have several reasons/obstacles here to look at

-Steel is usually heavier than aluminum/alloy
-They're the wrong size and not meant for the Max
-They stick out like lowrider wheels
-You had to cut a perfectly good fender for wheels that aren't even 1-2 inches larger in diameter. Here in Chicago, we wish we came across mint rust free fenders more often and here you are choppin away

If it makes you happy, then go for it but know you will be getting lots of negative comments about it

 

some guy here in az did this

 

Ugly, but proper offset at least

 

Im no fortune teller but I am willing to bet that in the near future we see a post along these lines from this kid:

"I keep blowin out my rear tires....HELP"

And I hear that max saying:

"OHHHHH MYYYYY FF*%*%&&#*#&*@*@ING GOD! Get me out of here!"

 

i understood the hate for the rims.. "wrong offset" "looks ugly" blah blah..
but u guys are flipping your **** over a FENDER LIP!
really?.

how much rust can that little cut really accumulate?
i relize that the steel rim is heavier. im not shooting for performance. im triying to make the car look the way i want it to.
i really didnt expect to get any sort of hate becuz of a fender lip. i think i missed the memo about everybody getting pissed at a guy for cuting a lip on a fender.

 

Personally, I'm not hating on the rust/looks. I think it actually looks decent. Some of the guys just don't know what it's like to not have major rust issues so the thought of having exposed metal for a few days freaks them out

But the point of rolling/hammering fenders is to make a less sharp/protruding overhang to cut up the tires. You'd have been better off hammering the lip up to make it more blunt, thus not cutting your tires even worse. That's all *I'm* saying..

 

yeah your right.. this was hella easier tho. lol.
that lip was like two layers of like 1/16th inch steel or watever.
i tried to roll it with a pipe but since the car isint flush i had nothing to use as leverage. i coulda bent it with a hammer but.. idk. i figured this would be more consistent and alot less time consuming.

 

Ding ding ding... I'm over here battling rust (You saw my "Coming alive" thread) and trying to make my car rust free and decent looking while you're welcoming rust by cutting. I could care less what you do to your Max but in the long run if you plan on keeping the car, further rusting can continue to develop if metal is exposed to moisture/air.

Fenders arent so much of an issue since you can just unbolt them but I hope you didnt grind the quarter panel lip too

 

ive seen your thread man. but im pretty sure down here in GA ill be aight . lol

 

Rust will happen anywhere given enough time. Especially if you're near the ocean, which you're fortunately not.

The proper way to roll fenders is none of the ways you did it. It's one thing to do things "cheap and quick", but to take a hammer and a grinder to your car isn't it. you STILL need to go in there and smooth off the edges, properly roll the lip (at minimum, use a baseball bat or go to a shop that has a fender roller and pay them $50 to do it right!), then sand off the cracked & damaged paint and respray.

Since you didn't bother to do it right the first time, you're going to have to spray the entire fender lip, not just any minor dings you did while doing the job.

Had you done it properly (at a shop, with the right tools), it would have cost you $50 in labor, 1 hour of your time, and you wouldn't have to grind, hammer, or repaint anything.

Nonetheless, there's absolutely NO way you're going to get those wheels & tires to keep from rubbing on your car unless you completely remove the fenders and use bolt-on flares. The wheel just stick out too damn far becuase you couldn't be bothered to look for wheels of the proper offset before you started.

 

lol +1, i WISH i could be rust free. even a little spot will spread, mine started around the screws on the wheelwell mudguards and it spread all the way to the back bumper

i fixed it all, and someone or something scraped my front wheel well and exposed a bit of metal, about a square CM only was showing about 3 months ago. now, that little spot has spread to a at least 3"x3" patch i have to fix

 

so just as an update i wanna say that this worked exacly as i planned.. i had 4 people in the back seat today. usually the back tires would scrub on the lip of the fender constantly. but tonight i didnt hear it scrub a single time.

 

 

The rust argument is moot, he'll have far more pressing issues by the time rust becomes a problem.

Hatmanafro, not really sure what you are trying to achieve? It must be purely aesthetic + high school boredom because you'd be miles ahead if you'd just bought a new set of tires for the stock wheels :-/

 

those are some nice cuts in your sidewall bro. In the near future when you are going out to find some new tires cuz your old ones blew out on you try and get some lower profile tires it would solve alot of your problems.

 

you hit the nail right on the head.. lol.
high school boredom and asthetics..

@1991Maxima1991:
yeah i plan on getting sumthin a little bit skinnier and not so tall.

 

I wish I had that much time to kill when I was in skool. I had a real job... Which provided me enough money to buy the right parts for my car.

 

^ THIS. get a job, high school i would be in school until 320 and work at 4, after high school i upgraded some courses until 11am and worked 12-9 or one job from 1130-330 and the other 4-9. save up some money, ive got $1500 saved towards my 3rd gen as side money for whatever

 

well. i have a job now thats gonna help fund my upcoming 5 speed swap.
my first day was saturday. so yeah. im gonna keep the rims and i plan on getting a new set of tires.. something like 185/50 or something along those lines

 

Those are some nice rims the ones you got from the junkyard are en=mbarassing if you put them on a Max they may say nice car but he killed it with the rims