The Russian

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any1 got pics of the AE HEADLIGHTs, IM REALLY THINKIN OF DOIN THIS MOD.... pics please, and tell me how hard it was 2 do..

Northern Maxima

Here's a couple pics of mine...I also have a 99. It was fairly easy. The hardest part for me was just removing the headlights then putting them back in. I undid the screws that aim the headlights so that messed things up a bit. I also did my clearance lights to match. Those were easy too, but a little trickier to pry the lenses off cause the glue is farther inside the housing. Make sure you use lots of tape to cover the part you still want shiny because the spray paint can get through any little gap in the tape. Also, let your lights cool down after having them in the oven before you tape so the adhesive on the tape doesn't stick too much then peel off the chrome finish. Just be careful pulling it off after you're done. Its really satisfying once you get the lights back in though!


And before I got my DC Clears:


I got a few more pics on my Car Domain site too.

aBoZoG

Nice, u can c da difference!

1FSTMAX

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reppin the ae beige max style headlights..

goldtooth

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what does the ae mod for headlights and clearance/corner lights do exactly ? I can notice that it is somewhat different from the pictures, but i dont understand what its supposed to do....

ihadahonda

i like the black housings with amber bumper lenses better. im not a big fan of clear lenses. OEM=PIMP!

Northern Maxima

If you look at stock Maxima headlights you'll see there is no black outline around the center of the headlight. Basically the chrome part of the headlight/clearance light becomes circular. Here's a before/after pic of mine:

Before:


After:

2 Da Max

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|Bijan|

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WhY dO yoU tYpe LIKe ThIS? Thats pretty gay and middleschool

nismomax98

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easy mod looks good my.02

Vlasic

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damn Alan, you needed me to install your intake for you...how do you expect to do an AE headlight mod?

tzmanles

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Perryb

what paint did you guys use i have a 96 black max and i wanted to do another mod for the front. does anyone have a thread or something going through the steps of this mod. I am very wierd i have to have everything laid out on the table before i do it. so if someone could give me details that would be great

Northern Maxima

I just bought some flat black spraypaint that has high heat resistance. The one I bought is actually for Barbeques. The heat resistance is needed to withstand the heat of the bulbs. This is actually the same paint I used to do the DTM mod to my taillights.

Here's a link on how to do it:
VQPower

There is writeup on how to remove your headlights in the stickies. I still had trouble with this even though everybody said it was really easy. I would have preferred a writeup with pics but there doesn't seem to be one. Doing your clearance lights is done pretty much the same way as the headlights.

Mr.Duck

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hey look in my sig for pics, but for the clearance lights i blacked out the entire housing, not just AE style.

ptatohed

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I am going to embarrass myself here. What does AE mean? Anniversery Edition? Angel Eye? ??


Mr. Duck. That mod would be iffy on even a black Max - it certainly looks out of place on your beige Max.

Northern Maxima

AE stands for Anniversary Edition.

NCSU_MAX

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ptatohed

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Thanks Northern. But why?

2 Da Max

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the 2001 maxima was the anniversary maxima

btw the black looks hot on gold max.....

The Russian

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DONT WORRY IAN LOL I GOT IT HANDLED... lol toliks doin it for me lol, and the intake was soo easy 2 install i felt stupid after u installed it in like 15 mins

|Bijan|

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So if someone else is doing the work for you...why the thread?

Northern Maxima

I think the 01 AE Edition had similar style headlights with the blacked out portions. I never really paid attention to those so I'm just guessing.

The Russian

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want 2 see how hard it is if i can do it myself

mendon99

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very easy to do, i just did mine yesterday actually. if you've done the red clear mod, then you can do this

SMX95

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I have a few pics on my car domain.

Northern Maxima

If I can figure it out then I'm sure you can! Well actually, taking the damn lights off the car was hard for me but according to everybody else its easy!

MaxxAddict

not to hijack this thread, but SMX... your grill makes your max front end look like a pontiac IMO. Doesn't look bad tho, don't get me wrong...