i recently got in a wreck so i sent my car to tom peacock nissan. i ordered the skyline bodykit and a grille from customamaxima.com. it took ofer 4 weeks to come in to the shop and the grille was never sent. Greg said that the bodykit was caught in customs but personally i dont believe this BS! but anyway the kit is being installed now. there are a number of seroius problems that have arose. 1. my stillen exhaust that previously stuch out about an inch(with the stock bumper) now is three of four inches under the rear bumper! i was told that i need to go to a muffler shop and get a pipe to extend the exhaust. BS!!! 2. the screws on the side skirts rub the doors as i open them and i can see the screws between the door and the top of the side skirts. 3. the front bumper will not just bolt on as advertised! the front reinforcment will not allow the bumper to attach in the necessary places! and Greg, the owner of Custommaxima is doing everything possible to not talk to me, or anyone involved with the shop! The top of the two large holes, below the blinkers, on both sides is what is hitting the bottom of the reinforcment. The body shop said that they think that greg was lying about the stuck in customs thing and that he made another batch of skylike kits in a hurry and i got the shaft! Anyone that has any experience with this kit PLEASE HELP ME!!!! i have been out of my max for over a month and i have to pay for the rent car now because i am waiting on "special parts" or so the insurance company says. And one more question, isn't greg a member on the org? i hope he reads this one if he is, and he should know exactally what i am talking about.

thanks in advance,
-Ross Thomas

 

Customs? As in your not in the USA? Hrm... maybe the foreign Maximas have different fittings and all the whatnot, perhaps the shop you took your Maxima to is just ****ty and has no idea wtf they are doing.

 

I too was told they were going thru customs and got my front bumper a month after I ordered it. Greg is a pretty str8 fwd guy, he wouldn't lie about anything. And as for the front bumper, it bolted directly onto my car.

 

no i ordered the kit through custom maxima .com a company that said it WOULD FIT IN TO THE STOCK HOLES!

 

what year do you have and you didn't have any problem with the large horizontal steel beam behind the front bumper? if not where did it place in refrence to the kit's bumper?

 

front skyline, type-s bumper with stillen side skirts and rear? nice...

 

The beam didn't get in the way, my front bumper just went over that beam and bolted rite on.

 

Why would the body shop use screws between the side skirts and the doors?

 

I think the beam support of the 95/96 is different than the 97-99....maybe that's why there is a fitment issue. I bet the kit was prototyped on 97-99. That would explain the exhaust/rear bumper issue too..since 97-99 rear bumper is further out than the 95/96.

 

what should they use?

 

but it said on custommaxima.com 95-99 maximas! i have a 96 and it dosent fit!

 

I understand your concern for your car and the stress you have been going through with your car....however, like I've said in the past, Greg from Custommaxima.com is an honest guy and has absolutely nothing to gain by any delays in getting your bumper to your location. In fact I am sure that he tried everything in his power to get the bumper to you as fast as he could. Greg is always straight when it comes to business. If you have not known this...there has been incredible demand for this new item and I know that it is quite possible that there is a run on these kits. Another good example of this are the delays that I have been reading regarding the Frankencar intakes. When demand exceeds supply this results in shortage....simple economics. Custommaxima is not your problem,however I think your patience is wearing thin and you are venting about things that are right now out of control and you would love to have your car back. I hope your back on the road soon man.
Lata!
-Jeremiah

 

The part that goes over the bottom part of the doors should be held by high quality 3M double sided tape. Then they should use screws or rivets to hold the front part of th side skirt to the front wheel well. Same thing goes for the rear part of the side skirt ot the rear wheel well. This is the main reason I only let the body shop paint. I can do a much better job of fitting the kit on the car.

 

I could have told you the shipment was coming in during the middle of October. I got the info from Advan styling. I knew this since Aug. There were no more kits in the US since mid Aug. They were all sold out by then. I got one of the last rear bumper.

 

ok i understand the delay but how do u explain it not fitting?

 

Well...that's a problem you have to take up with Greg @ custommaxima.com I don't know what other mods you have...but I have yet seen any aftermarket mods that fit perfectly. The art of modding cars is to do what you need to do to make things fit. That's why your average Joe mechanic with years of fixing your mom/pop cars wouldn't install a nitrous kit on a civic. My favorite tools are a big hammer and a dremel Since we have been bad mouthing Sarona kit...i think we should start telling people that the Skyline kit is not a bolt on for 95/96.

 

is there a different kit for a 95-96 as a 97-99 because of the different font reinforcment and rear bumper length? or is it just tough $hi* if u have a 95-96?

 

Same kit. Your body shop will just have to do more work to make it fit on the 95/96.

 

Rivets, Polyeurathane, worst case scenario: double sided tape. Screwing them in with screws between the doors is about as intelligent as trying to use a hammer & nails to attach the thing. You should be chewing out your body shop and not custommaxima.

 

OK OK, So what kits are out there for the 95/96 maximas?? I don't like the kit for the 95/95 that stillen has.

 

sounds like you are screwed..

 

I had the same problem. side skirts scraped even w/o any screws or anything, and front bumper would not fit over the reinforcements but like someone said earlier his favorite tools was a dremel, and a big hammer. we had to break off the small rectangular shaped reinforcments to make the front bumper fit fine, then as for the side skirts we tried a combo of a few things, first we bent down the side rail a little, then we had to shave a tad bit off the door and now it is fitting perfect. about 2 more weeks of work and im done

 

CKNY has a 95/96 Maxima and his bumper fits.. well to the best of my knowledge.. i think its a problem with your shop more so than the kit.. i mean for god sakes they want to use screws

 

i like the stillen kit...i'll probably end up getting that one.

 

What year is your car?

 

 

mine is a '95

 

Stillen kit for the 95/96's are ugly. I have a 96! I dont like them, I prefer the 97-99 kits. But there are fitment issues as we can see.

 

The first body shop turned him away because it wasn't bolt on.

 

When I did my front end 97-99 conversion, there were two tabs in between headlights that interfered. That's where the stock grill mounted into I believe. In order to get the 97-99 bumber cover to fit, I had to remove those.

Could this be all that is causing these fitment issues?

 

the kit is fiberglass not polyeurathane

 

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no we removed those, the front reinforcment, a large steel beam behind the front bumper, is what is hitting.

 

the bodyshop has ground the front bumper down where i was hitting so it now fits, they adjusted the doors up(i have no clue how) so now they are not hitting either, and they are welding a new tip on to my exhaust, all for no cost to me. and the screws on the side skirts was my mistake it was actually sone kind of clips to hold them in place temporarilly. i should be getting it back soon. ill post pics asap.

thanks for all your help
Ross

 

good to hear! Hope they are digi pics, please pleaseeeeeee take pics of the back, many pics!

 

can do good buddy

 

i know that this thread is a little old but......

i just got back from the bodyshop today and they said that it was going to take way more money than the bumper was actually worth to get the front bumper to fit.

- it doesnt line up with the fenders(not even close)Common with most aftermarket bumpers

- the mounting places for the turn signals have to be re-fiber glassed to get my turn signals to fit

- parts of it have to be sanded down because of all the trash under neath the gel coat

- some places have to re-fiber glassed to even look remotely smoothed

- it was cracked even before i received it

- no pre-drilled mounting holes to "bolt on" my car

- the reinforcement had to be completely removed before even considering the bumper to fit

 

sounds to me like you got screwed...

 

 

That's why I'm still working on my rear bumper. I got all the holes drilled so now I'm moving on fiberglassing. Here are pictures of my on going project.

http://imageevent.com/1max2nv/advanstylingrearbumper

 

Remove or grinding down the front reinforcement is common for aftermarket front bumper. ie...VIS front bumper for Eclipse.

No pre-drilled holes is also common. Only high end Japanese fiberglass kit has pre-drilled holes. ie. Bomex and C-West.

Mine do have some spots that I had to sand down. Took me about 30 mins to get to all of them. Overall my rear bumper is pretty smooth.

This is the reason I decide to test fit the rear bumper myself. I can sand, chop and fiberglass it to perfect before the bodyshop paints it.