my car is in my sig, i wanna start with visual upgrades. i have the 01 gle wheels i was maybe thinking paint the wheels black? and get a white on black theme? then maybe black headlights and smoke the turn signals?


EDIT!!: Lol i tried restoring the headlights like everyone said. It looks much better, but can still use a little more shine

 

Please do yourself and that pretty max of yours a favor and don't paint the wheels black..trust me they will look horrible....How much did your get your car for ? auto ? congrats

 

Change the bumper light lens (front) and the turn signal lens (rear) to clear ones, and remove the pinstripe.

 

How many miles are on the vehicle? Do you have the maintenance history for the vehicle?

I would be inclined to focus on maintenance issues first, before spending any money on mods or cosmetic changes.

Of utmost importance is fluid changes if necessary, ie. oil, tranny fluid, flush radiator, power steering fluid. Inspect steering, exhaust, suspension, CV boots, belts and hoses, brakes etc.

 

+1

 

Drop it...

 

Clean those headlights.

 

I wdnt paint them black. I wd get black rims with a chrome lip. Since u got wheels jus leave. Get ur tints right, then swap out lights.

 

+1 once you do all the maintenance, then maybe drop it, warpspeed y-pipe, and get a pair of A.E. headlights and corners.

 

rofl. yes please clean them before you do anything else.

 

i gotta bangin *** deal 2600 w/144k miles GLE auto. haha and thanks mann.

yeahh im lookin to turn this into a visual beasstt, and thanks for everyones opinons. still open to any more ideass

 

recent tune up, changed oil w/ synthetic 2 weeks ago. car runs like i bought it yesterday. but, one thing, when i start it up, SOMETIMES i will have to give it a little gas or it will stall. but i mean i drives smooth. hmmm?

 

^^^you might want to check the fuel filter, swap that regardless.
as for mods, dont do black and white theme. maybe black housed headlights but no black wheels with a bunch of random black parts on it. if your just going for "looks" i would lower the car, get some 18s with a good offset, and lip kit.
i have an auto as well and really dont see a point in "performance parts" other than headers and exhaust, if that...

 

first thing you should do is replace the fuel filter and clean out the intake, throttle body iacv and maf sensor.

You will NOTICE a power increase after that stuff is done.

 

okay, i'll replace the fuel filter. how do i clean out the rest of that other stuff? sorry i learn quickly tho.

 

Check out the stickies man

http://forums.maxima.org/4th-generat...g-dummies.html

 

lol alright thankss, and these headlights look super nice. is there any place local where these can be bought? i dont wanna pay the shipping lol

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1995-...Q5fAccessories

 

i just bout a 97 gle but it doesn't have leather seats... have any of you ever heard of anything like this before?

 

it happens rarely. i seen a GLE posted on craigslist but didnt have leather, it was a 2001 max tho.

 

im gonna take a guess and say the guy bought a 5spd and did a leather swap

 

o ok because it has the auto climate control and the wood grain and all that, just no leather... it was kinda weird... ill guess ill just have to go buy leather seats somewhere.... BTW im 16 and this is my first car

 

drop it and put some 18"s on her

 

White rims FTW on the WHITE Maxima... (even if you just get the stock ones painted).
Also, 1.5" front 1.3" lowing helps the look of the car - there are several forum postings debating which is the best products to use... Tien and Illumina's seem to be popular (as the Illumina's are adjustable and such...)

Do the normal maintainance on the car - obviously.

Tint the windows (which I've yet to get on my own - which looks similar to your car without the sunroof)...

Tunes? - Speakers - Head unit - amp - subwoofers? (if your into that type of thing)

Y pipe, cat back?

Just throwing out ideas here.

 

definetly got maintainence on check.
got the stock bose sounds niceee
might get diff rims, idk, but the white paint sounds cool, i'll photo shop it first to see how it looks
how much would it cost too lower? i really wanna do that

and are u gettin any rims for ur car?

 

1st-Intake
2nd-Ypipe
3rd-JWT ECU

 

To OP: What are you, some sort of ricer? Don't change anything unless you don't like it.

 

not all over performance right now, thats jus more tickets. but whats a JWT ECU?

i'll prob get an intake.

 

I do plan to get rims -
http://www.tirerack.com/upgrade_gara...&autoYear=1999
- but the rims I want are EXPENSIVE and I'm monetarily deficient, so they will have to wait, I also want them white (which will add to the cost - + tires). Meanwhile I've done some painting, (grill is solid white with only the 'burger' in chrome (I'll either black it out or something - which ever I do to it I'll do to the rear 'burger' and lettering), I also painted the engine cover white. I added some after market driving lights this week, wired to low beams (I plan to run a second set of much brighter ones to my high beams later). I'll lower the car at some point too, and get sway bars, FSTB, and RSTB.

I think my next thing however is TINT - since living in FL is just too bright...

 

I actually just started modding my 96 max gle a few months ago. I already have 2 12 inch subs in my trunk, dynomat with the bose, sounds great! I also have tint, aftermarket headlight housings with hid's along with clear bumpers with led's. I plan on doing the y pipe and intake next.

 

where do u live? jersey? are clear bumper lights illegal in jersey?

 

I live in Cincinnati, but I am not 100% positive if they are legal or illegal. I believe that you must have some sort of orange housing on the front of your car. So technically, the front of my car is illegal if I am geussing right.

 

does your turn signals blink orange still? or does it blink white?

 

You don't need to mod it ... it already goes 120MPH.

120MPH Maxima

 

yeahh, umm coulda sworn i stated this.

 

If you don't know what an ECU is, you shouldn't be touching your car in the first place.

 

who doesnt know what an ECU is?? i was askin about the brand.

 

its a jim wolf technology ecu

 

Decriptive...

 

my signals blink white, which look a lot better in my opinion. Luckily where I live, cops dont tend to pull people over for that type of stuff. Anyways, I would go with led lighting throughout your car. I recently bought a new housing for my headlights along with hid's and i also have an led strip in my front headlights as well. Looks pretty coold.