I got my hands on a can of Niteshades and was thinking about painting my clear bumper lights black...but I'm not sure if it'll look good or not.. anybody ever seen a black max with black bumper lights?

Looking for some opinions. Thanks

 

Photoshop = friend......


or talk to jsutter or someone like that. I belive he was rocking those for awhile

 

i'm doing clear lenses to contrast with the black, but it just depends on what YOU like

 

I think it would look better with the "black chrome" bumper lights.

 

i have a black maxima and i like the look of the clear corners..i think tinting them would be too much black...but thats just my opinion

 

Amber owns all, keep it stock, just looks more classier and adds character...

I went from clear to amber...previous owner had clears...

 

my car isn't black, but a real dark blue (granite pearl to be exact) and I tinted my bumper lights and I feel it looks great and have gotten many compliments on it. Check my sig for pics and info.

 

More pictures here...
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/679780/2

 

i want to tint my stock ambers on a sunlit sand maxima
anyone got pics?

 

Would look beter with clears if you have silver or crome wheels. I would also think it would look good to black out clears as opposed to blacking out the ambers.

 

i made a thread about this a few months back, but cant find it. I guess anything in the members rides gets deleted after page 2...

but anywho, check ethnic6 's homepage. he had made a thread showing his off and i remember responding to it but like i said that thread has disappeared.

 

Tint the bumper lights then tint the taillights go with it. Also get the blacked out headlights and corners, then your set.

 

Yeah man those look nice. I was actually looking at your cardomain the other day by chance. Did you tint your ambers or tint clears? Looks like ambers, but just checking..

 

I am pretty sure JSutter (where I got the pictures from) tinted his Ambers

 

Black cars look good with white lights and white cars look good with black lights IMO

 

I think it makes the front look very thick. Clear would make it jump out more. But i guess its what ever you want.

 

I have Overlays for those peices guys .

Bat™

 

Personally, i like the clears better.
But, if you like tinted, i think clears would look a lot better than smoked ambers.

In the end though, the final decision is up to you, its your car.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna go for it and tint them. I have clears on it now so I think they'll look pretty good tinted. I'm going for the black stealthy look.

I'm gonna do the work this weekend, I'll post pics when I'm done.

 

looking forward to the pics .

Bat™

 

I just put clears on my car and I really like the way they look. I have only liked tinted on a few cars myself. I will be interested in seeing the pics for sure!

 

Im' thinkin about tintin mine but I havent seen a lot of Stearling Mist max's with smoked bumper lights.

Anybody got and PICS

 

Here are some pics I found on vqpower.





The top is a 97-99 obviously, and the bottom is a 95-96. Mine's a 97 and I like the look of the top pic. It's like the bumper lights aren't even there. Very clean

 

ambers ftw....

 

had these bumper lights for a while. but they suck ***** so i went back to my clears...

 

did u buy those off ebay the headlight/bumper light combo for like $200?

Btw, did u put them R34 headlights on the yet, If so can u post some pics, i'm thinkin about geting them.. not sure...

thanks

 

i have those and can get pics later today.

 

I didnt vote..........I think its a toss up, sometimes im ready to buy bumper lights clear or black doesnt matter, than say f it and im still on stock ambers.

99% of everyone who changes the looks of their rides end up going stock for whatever reason.

 

black looks nice

 

ambers 10 charc.

 

I have black tinted bumper lights that I bought off of EBAY because they were selling for less than the stock amber prices. I don't really care too much for show, really just wanna do more go.

They actually do look pretty nice though I have to admit. Makes the maxima look a little more aggressive. And my car sticks out from all the crappy maximas in the area who try to sport their clear bumper lights.

I have to say it looks crappy because No one shells out that extra 20 bucks for a decent set of daimond cuts.

The main downfall is functionality. I've had a couple close calls during the daytime while making turns at four ways. People have a hard time seeing my turn signals in the light. I'm about to switch over to amber bulbs to see if it makes any difference. Hopefully that works out well.

 

Does anyone know where I can get the altezza gen II tint's or covers. I've only seen it on one maxima.

 

I finally got around to putting these on.. 3 coats of Niteshades and a clearcoat (niteshades doesn't leave them glossy.. and IMO they look much better glossy like the rest of the car/lights).

Also got some rims on her now..

Before:


After:

 

^^^ wow, bet your car could like run over mine

get it lowered son

 

Lol, when I showed my friend that picture he said "oh, it's a 4X4?"

But yeah, the wheel gap is really bothering me now.. this weekend I'm going to try and get some friends with tools to help change the struts out.. I'll post pics after that endeavor.

 

change the struts out? just the struts? for what?

 

Sorry.. struts and springs. Thought I put that in there.. lol

 

Its all a mater of what your into, i happen to like contrast so for you i'd stick to clears, i have a gold max so i went with blacks. If you dont like contrast then get the black ones, maybe even the black headlights too, but i had to retro when i got the headlights last weekend.

 

Yeah, I want to get the black 1-piece R34 headlights.. but I wouldn't tint them completely black (I don't like when cars like "blind").. however I've heard that light output on them is terrible. So I'll probably do a retro with them.

 

The light output was really bad, i didnt listen to what people said when i posted a poll going back a while. Then once i had them on for 1 night after work i realized just how bad it is, its like driving at night on a motorcycle, not too fun.