I just picked up a pair for my GF's max, and she raves that they look awesome!!! in the daylight you can't see the bulbs at all since they're all white (inside the clear bumper lenses) but at night when they turn on they're all blue!!! very very nice

 

Not sure which ones you got but blue wedge bulbs in clears are rice.

 

Here we go again. That term gets thrown around way too easy. Maybe you might think its "rice" but I dont at all. So what kind of bulbs do you put in your sidemarkers that arent wedge bulbs? Are you saying that if you have clears that you shouldnt put a bulb in it?

 

You're rice.

 

where did you pick them up??

 

You better be careful, any aftermarket bulbs with a blueish tint can be considered to be impersonating a police officer which is a felony in many or all states.

 

i picked them up from Modacar in pleasanton for 18 bucks + tax (18 for 2)

in response to the rice post... so what do u suggest to put in clears???

 

orange bulbs in the front and red in rear

 

humm.. don't u think they look kinda funny though?? i looked at the clear bumpers with orange in them, and the bulb color showed through in daylight, i'm guessin it would do the same with the red... and if it shines through u might as well leave the stock ones on rite??

i dunno.. i would've got white ones but modacar only had 1 set left and a full set of the blue... i sorta like how they look, i guess i still have a lil rice left in me...

 

Put in just white lights vs blue. A maxima isn't a damn christmas tree! Sorry to say but blue blubs anywhere on the exterior of a Maxima is straight up RICE! This includes blue in clears, signals, those stupid washer lights, tire valve cap and neon underbody crap etc etc ! So ghey! Let alone those cheap xenon wannabe ricer headlights and fogs. I've seen some very cheesy interiors as well with neons crap and black lights everywhere but at least it isn't as visable from the exterior.

 

I put 4 bulb LEDs in my clear bumpers. Amber in the front, and Red in the back. At night you can't even tell I have clear corners, it looks like the colored lenses are still there.

 

Any problems with the LEDs yet? Everyone says that they act up after a while. What kind do you have? ANy pics?

Thanks

 

That works too!

 

I forgot the brand of the ones I have. They're not the dim APC's, or the overly expensive JamStrait. They work pretty well though. Apparently if you use LEDs in your signals, they will blink faster. But in my clear bumper lights, it doesn't affect anything.

 

anyone have pics of their car with them at night? I am dying to see them. Also, anyone have the clearance bulbs as superplasmas? I wanna get rid of all my xtreme whites except for the fogs!!!!

 

I had the LEDs for a afew weeks, then one started blinkin and two shut off completely....just a pain IMO. They dont seem to work well in my sidemarkers.

 

I have LED's in my clear side markers (amber/red) and door lights (white) from Midnight Moose . I used to have white 4-LED 194's in the license plate area, but one by one, the lil' LED's started going out and strobing in the process (can you say..TICKET? ).

The light dispersement on the Midnight Moose is not as direct as the 4-LED's. It's like they tried to designed it to work in reflector housings (diffuse the light rearward). A profile view would look like this:

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So the white LED's from them did not work well in the license plate area, I ended up using PolarG's. I have to admit, the 4-LED's looked much better (crisper, brighter, more "high tech", if you will). But the amber and red LED's from them look very good at night. They look like you've placed regular bulbs in smoked lenses. Very deep red and amber. I'll try to put up some pics soon. During the day you can see a hint of yellow and red from the plastic LED mounts that emulate the 194 leads. And like any other LED, you really have a tough time seeing them in the day.

On their website, they actually used a 2k2 Max as a "model", using their LED's in the door clearance lights, the parking lights and a superwhite bulb in the high beams. As you can see (and I can attest), their LED is not very bright in the parking light housing (I guess their design for rear diffusion didn't work well, if that is what they were trying to achieve in the first place).

 

Hawks/Dave thanks for the info. I have the clears now with "red" 194 wedges that are just pink. I used two different kinds with little change. I have APC now, which are a little deeper but still too pink for my taste.

I think LEDs may be the way to go for me.

 

Well, where did you buy them? Are you sure you don't remember what brand you have?