The first time I saw a debadged 4th generation Maxima, was probably you guessed it, the fast and the furious. Ever since then I have seen quite a few debadged maxima's, and many blunders on trying to get those letters "M A X I M A" off the trunk. I have even seen an idiot dent his trunk in doing so. And, what's under those funky, large, spewed out letters anyway? is that glue? adhesive? tape? what is that!

Anyways, every day on my walk back to my appartment from my classes here at college, I pass by a White 4th gen, which has been 'debadged' in the back. At first I thought, wow, that looks cool...but after staring at it every day, I can still read where M A X I M A was in this girl's trunk, and the debadging was not 100% clean, although at least she didnt dent her car in doing it.

Now, after reading those letters still embedded into her trunk paint daily, I have concluded that debading your 4th gen is potentially the ugliest modification you could do. Debadging a 5th gen (though I dont want to try and get my letters off) would look much more sleek, and sexy, rather than a 4th generation which leaves residue marks in your paint and a gigantic WIDE gap in your trunk leaving people wondering "what's missing here?"

I would have to assume that over 70% of people who debadge a 4th gen fail and get residue marks...if you have done it CLEAN, I would LOVE to see a pic... but just in my opinion, it looks hideous, and dont even attempt to debadge your 4th generation, or that will be a regret taken to the grave.

Oxygen~

 

huge explanation for something that should read: Debadging when done incorrectly looks stupid.

...by the way, it doesn't leave residue, or a gap so.... here's mine

 

what is the point of this thread? I have seen several maximas cleanly done and they look hot. On the other hand I have seen several that arent done cleanly and they look trashy. That goes for anything you do. If you did a half **** paint job on your car it would look crappy, spend the time to get a good paint job and it looks good. Thanks for pointing out the obvious though.

 

is you wash it and wax it for long enough, you can typically get the paint to blend and it's unnoticeable. she just did a bad job. don't let one poor example leave a bad impression in your mind for this mod.

 

Theres four right there, and we are not even ASE Certified in AMD!!

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If you do it right then you will have no problems...

Use fishing line to hacksaw the decals off and then just buff off the residue with some thing like goo begone

I removed a decal from my car and you can't see any outline remaining

 

I think hes just a 4th gen hater trolling our forum.

Dont hate cause we are using the 5th gen VQ35 in our cars.

 

I debadged but left the hamburger...

 

haha im def not a 4th gen hater. My mom has one, and I like it. Good car. I like how yours looks Maxima99SE, definately impressive...

I was thinking that too, that after many washes and waxes and a good buffer that it would blend in, but wasnt sure. sorry for so many words.

 

lower your car... yikes!

 

 

true it can look like butt if done right.....for instance mine right now looks bad.....but the car is getting repainted this winter.......so i didnt care.....but my 96 i buffed and waxed and u couldnt even tell lettters were supposed to be there....

 

I just told the guy who repainted my rear this summer to leave them off.

 

i followed directions but mine is messed up.car needs a paint job anyway, so i'll wait until then to do it and it'll all be taken care of..

 

My debadged trunk w/o any residue.

 

ackk...such horrible residue! i hate it! terrible terrible

 

the burger is the worst part, why leave that ?

 

That's your opinion...95-6 remove the burger, keep the Maxima letters, 97-9 keep the burger, or remove everything. I do not think that a 4.5 gen looks good with only the maxima letters.

 

Anything in that movie that wasn't debadged?

 

I think my 98 looks fine without only the MAXIMA and no burger. I might, however, strip off the MAXIMA sometime.

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mine looks pretty clean too but that residue was kind of a pain to get off, atleast for me it was

 

^ whoa, it's my car's *** with a PA plate!! heh.
I didn't have much of a problem with the residue... clay bar and scratch remover work wonders

 

You're right, from some angles, some cars, it looks good. Yours is an exception to my generalization.

 

baby got back?

 

haha is that enough?

 

Lets see some pics of your car's sexy a$$.

 

here's my max's PHAT A$$


ditched the "burger" and "gle" with no residue. i just cant seem to get myself to get rid of the "MAXIMA" i just think its sexy. if there were no keyhole i think it would be much easer, i dont know why.

 

I'll try to post one next weekend when I go home assuming I don't forget... I've got a midterm on Sunday so I'm staying at school this weekend Meh.

 

is this a thread where you post all your pet peeves on the max?

well my pet peeve is the climate control on the GLE, i hate it cuz i want to do ECONOMY air. but the same time i want to change the mode so it can blow front and down(my feet area) and oncu change the mode.. ur out of econ air and its ac..

 

 

IMO that looks better than everything shaved. BTW you signature 98MikeXimaSE is the funniest thing I've seen all day