Guess Who's Back...
 

Some of you may remember me from when I was more active on the boards a few years ago. I've been around for... a while. I started off as a car enthusiast without a car on these forums, and was inspired to buy my first car which was a '95 SE automatic. That car was totalled when I hit a patch of sand on the road and went into a barn sideways at 35 MPH. I missed it so deeply that it was replaced less than 2 weeks later with a '98 SE 5-speed. I was so happy to finally have a manual. Fast forward 2.5 years and I wanted something newer and simpler. My dream Maxima had always been a 2003 SE Titanium Edition 6-speed in Polished Titanium paint. Well guess what I bought today? Yup.


For now, you'll have to settle for a teaser picture of the keys from all my past and present Maxima's...

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...o/DSC00850.jpg

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In for pics!

Dave just sold his Turbo Grand prix btw. :(

Glad to see you got what you've always wanted. Kyle still has his white maxima LOL

good to have you back! are you going to be updating your page again?

Pics

I just need a place to host it. If I have some place to host it, I may redesign it totally and make it even better.

Welcome back dude. Congrats on the purchase.

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Welcome back. In for pics.

Pics please. Welcome back.

Welcome back and now post pics of the car or GTFO lol

what they said>>>> pics

Ok, you've had plenty of time to get pics up. Put out or get out.

^^^ That.

damnit. where are the pics? lol. I'm trying to get back into the maxima game as well. :)

welcome back. show us what u got :D

The crowd is getting angry :noes:

Sorry! I'm taking pictures of it tomorrow afternoon. I didn't want to take pictures of it covered in pollen :p

Didn't have time to wash it today, but as promised I took pics. Just keep in mind that the car is covered in like 1/8" of pollen from top to bottom. I also REALLY need to get a new camera.

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...e/DSC00854.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...e/DSC00856.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...e/DSC00857.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...e/DSC00858.jpg
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a86...e/DSC00859.jpg

In the last picture you can just faintly see how much pollen there is on the car. In person, at certain angles, the hood appears to be greenish-yellow.

lol at yall still having pollen. ours is way gone

It was only just last week or so that we started getting consistently warm weather :( (by warm I mean above 50)

that sucks...happy 3 or however weeks yall will have it

Didnt know pollen gets thick like that in the EC! I dont think we get it here in the WC..

Anyways, grats on the new whip. Whats the laundry list for it looking like?

Nice. Just curious, how many miles on it?

Simple, cheap, reversible stuff. As well as "maintenance upgrades" (i.e. adding subframe collars). This car is intended to be the easy to maintain, relatively quiet daily driver to a sports car in the next year or so.
104,000 as of the trip home. You'd never know it, though. The car is immaculate, in every sense of the word.


Also, does anyone know of a way to get new headlight lenses without buying new OEM headlights? Mine were slightly yellow/cloudy when I got the car and I was able to get rid of all the yellowing but the lenses are still just a little bit cloudy no matter how well I polish them. I have only been polishing them by hand, though.

Need an RSB? Have one for sale if you need.

The car already has a RSB and a FSTB. Otherwise, it's stock.

use toothpaste on the headlights works wonders real talk. just let it dry then rub it off with a towel

how'd you get rid of the cloudyness ? wet sand? or meguar's plastix? if that later, maybe try wet sanding. im not too sure you can purchase just the lenses for the 5.5 lights. One thought is ripping them open and also cleaning the inside of them.

Congrats on the nice purchase

I used Plastx after using some rubbing compound on them (cleaned them off thoroughly between the two applications).

best way to go about it patrick, is to wet sand them. i used the 3m kit on my headlights. Didn't get 100% clear/clean till I wet sanded them.

Nice pickup!

How did you go about polishing them once they were wet sanded? By hand or with a buffer of some sort? What polishing product? What grit of sandpaper? Also, how often do you have to polish them to keep them looking good?

I'm only asking these kinds of questions because I tried wet sanding on my old '95 years ago and was still never able to get them totally clear. The headlights also needed polished about every single time I washed the car because they faded VERY quickly.

Who's this noob?




JK Welcome back man

I was wondering where you disappeared to, welcome back!!

Nice Car man, excellent options/paint combo ;)

Welcome back, the modding now begins.

For the headlights get a 3M headlight restoration kit, should be available at your local auto parts store.

Nice Ride..:D

only losers drive maximas :o

looking good...