This is NOT a picture of my car. It's only being used as an example to what I have done. Credit goes to the owner of the picture (sorry, forgot who's site I stole it from)...

Instructions!
I basically painted the entire brake and turn circle red.

Paint used was Testers Transparent Candy Apple Red. You can get it at any hobby store, and possibly at Wal-Mart...

How to do it?
1. Mask off the circle with...MASKING tape (duh) and insuring you are staying as close to the circle as possible. It took me 30mins to mask each lamp. Do this part right and everything will look perfect...MAKE SURE YOU RUB THE EDGES OF THE MASKING TAPE FIRMLY ENOUGH SO THERE IS NO GAPS AROUND THE CIRCLE!!

2. Make sure you cover the rest of the rear portions of the car with newspaper (red paint on the back of your non-red maxima won't look cool).

3. After masking both taillamps, look at the rear of your 5g and laugh, cause it now looks pretty silly.

4. Shake the can of spray paint.

5. Keep shaking, you're not ready.

6. No, KEEP SHAKING...

7. Is the ball moving freely on the bottom of the can?

8. Good, tape the cap off, this is a typical procedure as most (i would say 99%) spray cans don't work well with the cap on...

9. With a firm finger, attack the taillamps leaving a ruler's (that's a foot for you guys who's never seen a ruler) length.

10. Do both sides and wait an hour.

11. Spray again.

12. Look at the back of your maxima and laugh again.

13. After a few hours of drying, removing the masking tape and newspaper, making sure you don't get it stuck to your clothes.


Things I was concerned when doing this:
Q. Will the paint run while on the car?
A. I was in 90 degree heat, at night, in a garage, with the taillamps on my car...It didn't run at all. The paint seems pretty sticky and therefore didn't run. But, it may also be my expertise in spraying.

Q. Will it look ugly?
A. I like it. Better than Altezzas. You eliminate the pokemon ball.

Q. How much did it cost?
A. $5 for the paint.

Q. Does it reduce the illumination of the lamps?
A. Well, of course. But, it's hardly noticable. My turn signals (with the yellow bulbs) still shine through perfectly. My brake lamps with the lights on and on braking shine perfectly through also. There's maybe a 5%-10% illumination loss.

Q. Kam, why are you a crackhead?
A. I'm a Thespian and I got shot in the head last night playing paintball.

Q. Is there a God?
A. ???

Q. Will those Saturn SC owners... I mean, those CL-S owners respect me more?
A. Nope. They have the almighty Type-S... they are invincible.


By the way, the pic attached is of an AE...but, the muffler looks like a GXE?!?!? .shrugs.

 

Helps if I add the picture.

 

i see no pic, but i've seen it in person before in Flushing,it looks ok if you want red turns

 

First, I'd like to point out I'm no longer a newbie! And secondly, I don't think it looks ba don the SE black covers, but I think it would horrible on my gxe all red...

 

I agree with Ironlord. But maybe someone could photoshop up an example of GXE/GLE tail lights with this mod...

 

Isn't it Yo_its_ok that has the painted taillights that you described?

 

yep

 

hehe sorry to spoil ur party kam...but i did that long time ago....well, except for the back-up lights that is..

 

Crap... why didn't anyone do a write up or post pictures then!?!?

that front lip is pretty flipping nice...

 

oh yeah, well, mine looks better!

i just have to get some pictures...

 

smokin' out the tails look really awesome, too, especially for the sterling mist color. TheKnight, i think, had a post on it a while back. the attached picture is courtesy of "TheKnight".

 

Nope, but, i'm trying to save face...

Regionally, I run both my maxima and my crx in CSP. The maxima is obviously way to slow to run in CSP (6secs slower on a 45sec course, compared to my CRX). Plus, my maxima has RSB, lowered, and larger rims...if I run it outside of CSP, it goes to STS. I don't want to deal with HSP (i think that's the class).