Well, I made a run down to Summit Racing yesterday and picked up 2 20' rolls of Prostripe chrome blackout tape. I stripped the roof strips off of the car this afternoon, and began the transformation!

Here are the rain channels without the strips.



I didn't take any pics of the chrome strips, as we all know what they look like. Here are the two rear sections, all finished!



Here are the black clips that are located along the windshield sides of the strips...most of them popped off of the strip...luckily none of them broke!



Here is everything back on the car!

 

I figured for $12 bucks for 2 rolls, that it was worth the investment. If the tape doesn't hold up, I'll just end up painting them.

 

Love it! Should have done that from the factory. How hard was it to remove the moldings on the rear window?

 

Good stuff. Can you link us to the product that you used?

 

Dude, thats pretty sexy. The chrome belongs on Infiniti M's not 6th gens. lol IMO

 

You are brave to take those moldings off as well. Is it possible to do the same with molding on the car?

 

Open the trunk, and remove the 10mm bolt on either side of the rear window trim. You will see the bolt when you open the trunk. It is right near where the front corners of the trunk lid are. Once you remove them, you pull straight up on the trim, and it will pop off.

Here you go:
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SLC-T9005/

The worst that can happen is I break the clips, and have to go to Nissan for new ones! I know that some guys said that they cracked their windshield. The only way that I could have damaged my windshield is if I would have used the windshield for leverage when prying the strips off. Don't use the windshield...pry from the other side, using the A-pillar. As far as the body molding on the car, it is put on with high strenth double sided tape. I would NOT try removing the body molding, as you could damage your paint. I would have a body shop do it.

 

VERY NICE! thinking about doing CF overlay since i have the slate grey but scared ****less of removing the roof strips. I have a roof spoiler so I don't think I can get the rear window pieces off so I won't worry bout that, but can you remove 'just' the roof strips w/o removing the back piece also? You say pry from the body 'door' side not the window side but I thought these things had to slide, not pop straight up. Confused.

Either way....AWESOME JOB. Solves a lot our fading problem.

 

so nice stuff!

 

The only thing you need to worry about taking the roof strips off is that the strips might bend. So be careful when taking it off and putting it back. And it might be hard to remove the strips without taking off the back pillars. I didnt have a problem doing mine but it was hella scary making sure that the strips dont bend while i was removing, sanding, painting, and re-installing the strips. Other than that you should be ok

 

Looks much better. Good job.

 

Looks great.

 

NICE!!

 

I popped mine straight up. You may, or may not be able to slide them off.

 

Looking good Don.

You did good, Nissan tech's broke both sides when they replaced mine under warranty.

 

I like the chrome better.........BUT since the quality on those strips is so bad, we don't have a lot of choice but to do something else. Nice job, good write up too.

CFR94 if you or anyone does a CF overlay version, I would like to see that!

Oh yeah, I don't the a spoiler would be in the way of removing strips. Dealer replaced mine with spoiler on.

 

Looks good!

You should black out the roof now!

 

The only problem I had was I had one clip per side pop off of the car (the side that stays on the car)...they are only glued onto the rain channel. I took some crazy glue that I had and glued them back down, and they seem to be holding. I figured worst case, if they didn't hold, I'd go get some JB Weld and stick them suckers back on!

 

Looks so much better. I used Bluebat overlays and its held up great for two years.

 

it came out good!

 

I do like the chrome look a little more, but that does look creative and it's still very clean and factory looking. At least if I want a change, I know how to go about it. Good mod though! )

 

Ahh I would love to do this. The stock strips look terrible in such a short amount of time.

 

The only thing stopping you is $12 and a couple hours of your time!

 

Has anyone give any thought to getting those strips chrome plated, and wonder if the cost would be of any consern.

 

I don't know exactly how much chrome plating is, but I know it is expensive. For $12, your roof strips are fixed...how does it get any easier than that?

 

that blackout looks sick bro way better than chrome!!!

 

Only twelve bucks? What kind of stuff do I need to make this happen? lol

 

See post #7

 

They're plastic.

 

thats a great change and for cheap too, you have to love those kind of mods.

 

For those of you that used bluebats overlays, did u take the roof strips off when you put them on??

 

I ended up using duplicolor shadow for the strips and my grill. Came out looking almost like a gun metal color.

 

 

I may find a use for the Duplicolor "Shadow" paint yet!



I'm currently working in my brushed aluminum interior pieces...I'll have some more pics shortly!!!

 

I like how it came out and i always liked the chrome. the chrome blackout looks really good on ur car.

 

Pep boys sells this stuff for $5 a roll btw.

I did my Grand Prix's roof rails too

 

Anybody know if they make this stuff in a gloss black??

 

Not sure about that.

 

Anyone tried this with the moldings on?

 

It's going to be difficult to do with the molding on, as there are rubber molding on either side of the roof strip.