Just wondering on what the consensus is regarding the removal of the maxima's pinstripes. If you have removed them, do you like it better? If you haven't removed them, why not? I was thinking of removing those bad boys this weekend and was wondering what ya guys think. Thanks!

 

Remove it, the max especially black looks a lot better with out the pinstripe and looks more sleeker!!!!

 

Remove please.

 

I never had pinstripes...

FLO_BOY

 

Never had pinstripes. Please remove them. It's illegal to drive a Maxima with pinstripes in the fine state of NJ.

 

i never had them on but remove them, makes the car look so much better. now back in the day was a different story.

 

This poll has nothing to do with SE model Maximas. Pinstripes were a dealer applied accessory, and were never put onto one particular model. I took mine off, it looks much cleaner.
-Cyrus

 

pinstripes ruin all cars...

 

I think pinstripes look pretty good on Honda Accords.
I am not too much of a fan of them on the Maxima.
Mine didn't come with any pinstripes.
I would have taken them off if it had come with them.

 

Kind of like them on my white car. But, then again, I'm an old man compared to most of you.

 

They look okay on pearl.
I feel old compared to a lot on here.
I am 24. u?

 

pinstrips are dumb

 

Thanks Bruce for the vote of confidence. I'll be 38 next week. Maybe the wife and kids can get me a Y pipe or Cat-back for my birthday. Does't hurt to dream.

 

does anyone have any before/after pinstripe pics for their 4th generation max? Prefer to have pics of a Black Max, if possible. Thanks!!

 

What is the step process to remove pinstripes?
Does anybody know or have a link?

 

Pearl99, what you need them to get you is a y-pipe. On the catback, hold off. You can just spend about $100 or less and get you a muffler that you like. One that is not too loud if you use this for a family car, you don't want it to drone on and on. Then, just take it all to a muffler shop(minus the y-pipe....you can do that yourself) and get them to custom bend you some 2.5" piping from your stock resonator back to the muffler. Then, they will fit the muffler onto the new piping.

Then, you have a quiet, cheap setup that gets the same gains as everyone else is spending a whole lot more on.

 

I took them off when I installed my graphics. Even if i didn't put on graphics i'd still take them off, don't add anything to the car really

 

Use an old credit card to scrape the pin stripes off. Use a good car polish to remove any residue left by the pin stripes. WARNING: It's a slow process requiring a lot of elbow grease. Good Luck

 

I have these on but don't really plan to remove them. It's not that big of a eye sore to me.

 

They don't look to bad on green.

 

i dunno why u put SE owners...i have pin stripes on my GXE and I removed them looks awesome

 

It was something extra that was added to a lot of SE's. The gxe you have might have just had it added to help it sell. Sometimes, it is just a special request from the person that bought it new from the stealership. They will put what they have to on the car to make a deal. We used to do this all the time when I worked at a stealership. I sold Jeeps and we would always have to promise bug guards or step rails or something. It just helps the sale, and the dealer can put that stuff on at a wholesale price.

 

I dunno if I should..I kinda want to, but kinda dont want to

 

bijan, I use Mozilla so it does not allow the www button at the bottom for some reason.
Can you give a link to your homepage so I can see?
White is probably the best color to keep pinstripes, IMO.

 

www.cardomain.com.com/id/bijangxe -- you could've just clicked on the

 

de-stripe, bijan...

it was the first thing I did to my car..

 

I have and the look is SOOO much cleaner. This isn't the '80s anymore take it off!!!

 

Still got small pinstripes on my max, never looked bad to me but over the years its starting to show a bit on them so thinking about de-striping for cleaner look. And I wouldnt consider 38 old, that comes in 2 more years for you

 

just did it about 2 weeks ago...my goodness it looks great. i don't know why i didn't do it the second i got it

edit:when i took them off, i waited for a really hot and humid day, started from the front and slowly peeled it back parallel to the car. to get the rest of the adhesive off i used mineral spirits. after that, i just went over it with some spray wax.

 

Gee, thanks bro. I'm 40 and now have been told I'm old...sheesh. j/k, I am only as old as I feel and fortunately I still feel like a strong young buck.

 

never had them and u shouldn't either.

 

That is what I was saying.....for some reason, Maxima.org does not support Mozilla fully and all of the buttons don't show up. The only one of the buttons that shows up at the bottom of every post is the reply button. I don't know why this is, but I like the browser nonetheless. It is so much faster than internet explorer. I mean, with IE, it takes forever to reply to something. With this, not long at all. And that is on high speed internet.

 

bah, peer pressure peer pressure.....

 

I used a heatgun (you can rent at Home Depot for $4/hr), and just heat up a section at a time while peeling it and it should take you no more than 5 mins.

 

No Pinstripe looks clean IMO. See sig.

 

Whats wrong with Pin Stripes?? just add some wood panels (Exterior only) on the doors along side with the pin stripes

 

i still have mine, they dont bother me dont ask me why. maybe i will get ride of mine later but right now nobody is gona talk me into gettin rid of them. lol, sorry guys.

 

on black id say remove them..
I have sterling mist...and I like them on my color.