Gonna finally start with the BMw headlight conversion...hopefully Monday. I finnally have some days off in a row and a fat pay check. Gonna get the lights this weekend and wake up bright and early monday and start!!!! I'm excited, but kinda worried i'll screw up too. Any advice, luck and comments will be greatly appriciated!!!!!
Wish me luck!!
-Blake

 

if you want a clean install, measure twice, cut once.

 

ditto.

take your time and you should be ok...get lots of dremel cut off wheels...it makes it easier.

its not that hard.

 

also...wear eye protection when you are cutting. i was wearing my glasses when i was cutting and the dremel disc broke and flew into my face. luckily it hit my glasses...but it could have hit my eye.

if you have troulbe fitting the lights, bang a little on the rad support. some might not reccomend this, but, i don't see any problems.

 

Good luck! Post some pics when your done. Want to do this to my ride. Has anybody ran into problems aiming their new lights or keeping them adjusted?

Thanks

Kev

 

thanx guys....i'm sure it's not gonna be as hard as i think it will be once i have everything apart and can see how things fit together. I have sooo many pics to post, but no scanner. That is my next invertment!! But, i'll make sure to let everyone know how it turns out and post pics asap!!
-Blake

 

well with mine, once they are in, its kind of hard to adjust them. up and down is fairly easy. i left the lower mount unscrewed, its just a piece of metal bent over to hold it. left to right is difficult if you still want the grill to sit right. its a pita

 

It would make me feel sooo much better if you guys said......."Hey, it's a piece of cake, one hour tops!!!!"......j/k. I know i'll be at it for 2 days, but it'll be WELL WORTH IT.
-Blake

 

heh well i started mine at like 10pm and didn't finish until like 2. its a good 4 hours. don't forget to buy all the wires and stuff and the 9005/6 bulbs

 

I have read through the forum and I have seen a few different styles... I hear most of them are BMW, but I have also heard of other kinds... what is the best to get? what looks coolest? and most of all what fits in a college kids budget?

 

huh? as far as i know the only headlight that is close to the stock maxima headlight is the e36 headlights, whether plastic, glass eplisoids or the zyk thingy. they are all the same size and has a decent fit on the max. thats it. the plastic ones are under a hundred, glass eps are 300+ and i dont know the pricing for the other one. btw if anyones looking for angel eyes for there bimmer lights i'm going to be selling a kit for them shortly. stay tuned to the link in my sig

 

BMW all the way...havn't seen any others out there, but sure there are.

If i'm not mistaken, buying new lights from a dealer comes with bulbs and all i'll need to buy is the harnesses?? Besides tools, i'll nees 2 lights, 2 9005 harnesses, 2 9006 harness and.........
I wanna keep it under 300 bucks, is that possible?
-Blake

 

thats all you need. good luck

 

damn man i remember when only like 3 people on this board had those lights, now i think only 3 people out everyone dont have the beemer lights. comon guys find something original already... (COPY CATS)

 

Find something original? Like....?

There's only so much you can do to something. It's either stock lights (or something ON the stock lights, be it vinyl, paint, whatever), or BMW lights. What else could you do there?

There's almost nothing you can do with the stock housing....

Why dont you come up with some ideas for those copy cats?

 

PROJECTOR HOUSINGS GOTDAMMIT!!!!!!!!

if APC would take their heads out of their frikkin asses!!!!!!!!

 

then every idiot with a maxima would have em...

 

yes and no....given that they would cost $300-350, I doubt many people would actually spring for them to begin with(most likely why they don't make them for us )

 

I think the bmw lights are pretty original...maybe not to us members, but to everyother 3rd gen owner it will be. I see 3rd gens everyday and not a single one with BMW lights.....until weds . I've only seen one max with them on my city(houston,tx) and that is David's(maimapwr)...i think. But i will do it and it will ba soooo bad as* when it's done!!!!!!!

 

I'll do it as soon as I can drive and feel more comfortable about cuttin up my car.

 

funny, you can only do BMW headlights or modify the stock lights...
funny

 

Well my bmw lights are different (for now anyway) They look like they came factory on the car.

Like someone else said there are a lot of people on this board that have them but I am the only one that has them anywhere close to where I live.

 

I will never put BMW lights on my max Its ghey