ok guys i know this is stupid but i cant figure this small thing out that what color should i paint my 3rd gen.....i want BLACK but my all other friends telling me different things like do green do red do this and that...now i m confused what should i do, should i paint same color?.....can u guys help me decide which color gonna look REALLY GOOD with wat color rims....thanks in advance.... i m dropping my VE this week for new paint job....o ya and its gonna be MATTALIC color...here is the pic of the present color....

 

Black>*

 

Is that yours??
I always thought yours was a real dark green?

 

http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generat...reen-mile.html

I inherited the wifes gxe, shes getting a truck sometime today...

 

Aaaah righto.
I noticed that girly looking sticker on the windsheild the first time, but it didnt click that a big tough man like Greeny wouldnt throw that on his car....but come to think of it, I do recall seing that in your other pics.
Thats a nice paint job.
Isnt black a pain in the **** to keep clean though?

 

lol, She asked me yesterday if i was going to take the sticker off, i said "does a bear sheit in the woods?"

Yes, black is hard to keep clean looking, but so was my green one, it's almost black in color at night..

 

I still like gray. when my VE(s) were clean and shiny it looked great and flew under the cops radar all the time. it almost blends in with the asphalt and concrete

 

Personally, I like a dark graphite colors. I think there some nice Infinitis with this. It also goes good with different colors of wheels.

 

I have never seen a yellow maxima ...

 

dark gray would look good. like a gun metal gray

 

Another Vote for Gun Metal Gray. prolly wouldn't show dirt as well

 

I like charcoal grey, black, black emerald green. If you can afford another color INCLUDING painting in the door crevices get another color, if not then stick with the same

 

Dark gray or Black.

 

GO WITH BLUE!!! (light blue that is)

At 1st...I HATED my color...now I'm in love with it. And it's easy to keep clean too.

 

Man, your wife('s car) is hot!!

 

I'd keep it silver. It's a rare color.

 

Come to think about it, I dont recall seeing many silver 3rd gens. In that case...I'd keep silver as well.

 

silver is nice; looks cleaner, longer. thus, it gets my vote. respray it, if it needs it.

 

black or silver

 

I know silver is rare in 3rd gens and easy to keep clean but how about golden color? I seen someones golden maxima around here lowered but cant remember but ya it looks very nice

 

gold? ugh... makes me think it's a wanna-be nice car, but fails (think 80s buicks)

 

the gunmetaly silver thats on the G's and Z's would look good.... id stay away from a loud color on a maxima

 

i believe there was one gold 3rd gen..was also dumped on airbags and a member on here i had thought, maybe a few years ago.

personally I like black, so nice and shiny when its clean and fresh paint job. although if you do a color change, i would reccomend doing the door jams at least.

 

Blacks pretty cool. Silver would be pretty sweet too... and somewhat different than the norm.

 

Unless your going to do the engine bay, door jambs and all of it, the same color it was painted at the factory.

Don't listen to your friends.

Don't spend $1k to paint a $1500 car.

 

I second Maximan's suggestion. I also have a silver Maxima. Mine's a 1989 GXE with the 549 paint code silver over charcoal cloth. It's really my favorite color combination. If/when I get mine repainted I plan on upgrading the silver color to one of the newer Nissan/Infiniti silvers. Here are some codes that were used on the JDM Skylines:

1N4 - mixture of KL0 (silver) and KM1 (grey metallic)
KG1 - Jet Silver Metallic
KH2 - Gunmetal Grey Metallic
KL0 - Spark Silver Metallic
KR4 - Sonic Silver
KV2 - Athlete Silver
KYO - R34 Z-Tune Special Silver
WV2 - Sparkling Silver

I may also go with a two tone. I'm not sure yet which ones. Probably a lighter/brighter one up top and a darker one below, or some pattern.

Good luck choosing!

 

yea that was Mr Juans "shavedmax", i have a couple of his gold fog light bolts the gold lives on...

 

the university i m doing automotive engineering at has a department for auto body technicians and one of the instructor from dere is willing to paint my car, doing all the body work and rolling my rear fenders in only $500...hes only charging me for the material no labour...so i m getting hell of a deal which i dont wanna lose lol...

i know ben gold looks YUKK....but that member on here who had a gold mettalic paint on his max...has a very gud lookin max ...i m trying to find pics of his max....will post shortly..

 

yeah, i wouldnt go for the gold either. wouldnt look too nice. my stock color is the light brown/goldy color and if the car wasnt at such a high mileage i would go get it painted black

 

Like the color on 350's:



Only Darker and with pearl in it. A really lustrous rich color. It would look really hot with the contrast of your black tint- (And black interior?) And set off the bright white rims. Fierce and ready to pounce.....

like a tiger.

 

golds a cool color, but I don't think it would look good on the maxima... just my opinion

 

I really deep burgundy color would probably look pretty good. Darker than the maroon maxes.

 

pearl u explained everything very nicely...thats the color i want and yes i have black interior...wat would u exactly call that color on 350z?

 

Shavedmax's 'Goldmember' is here: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/210618

My question with regard to that color is - why repeat it? It's been done. And the color only worked in my opinion because he went full out with the modding. And the type of modding he did suited the color he chose.

Like many of the guys here, I tend to think the closer you stay to your original color the less it will look like a repaint. But if your painters are going to truly strip the car down and do it properly (engine bay, door jambs, remove all trim), then I guess go for whatever color your heart is telling you to paint it. My guess is silver isn't the color you want to settle with.

When I had loftier plans with my Max I had long dreamed of painting it with a paint made by 'House of Kolor' called BrandyWine. I think done tastefully, this could look sweet on a Maxima without entering in to gangsta wannabe territory.

You can see an example of the color here:

 

just paint your wheels to match your car and call it a day. or if your whole paint is messed up like mine is, keep it the same color, then paint the wheels, THEN call it a day.

 

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I'm not crazy about Shavedmax's color, I was thinking more orange and less gold; darker with more of a deep gloss- with the lusture of the color you posted, but more of a burnt orange color. I do love that brandywine color you posted though, looks classy.