is there a reason you went thru the trouble of getting and installing an 05 bumper rather than purchasing a Nismo rear lip? 05 guys want 03 04 bumpers to get the the rear balance and you went the other way around hehe Just wondering though.. don't take it the wrong way

^I not gonna take that the wrong way at all, it's a very good question.
My 03 bumper was damaged, so to go Nismo would have been $$$ for a new bumper, + $$$$$$$ for the Nismo lip (it's just waaay too much for a stupid rear lip IMHO) and I like the way the 05 looks almost as much as the Nismo lip anyway (got to admit it's 1000x better than the stock 03 with no lip )
I also got a deal on the 05, so it was about $50 less than what I could have got an 03 bumper for. Granted the mudguards made it more expensive, but Marcus bought my old ones so he could go 03/Nismo so that offset the price and it all worked out in the end
As a funny side note, I'm buying Marcus' splash guards (the things that go over the mudguards) for mine

^ lol now i see, it makes sense, i thought your 03 was in perfect condition and you swapped it just for the looks. Stillen lip is another option in place of the nismo. Alot of people don't like the difusser part but i think that can be shaved off by a good shop. I ended up buying Vivek's Stillen, installing it in the spring

^Sweet.
Na the 03 was damaged. Funny too because there were quite a number of people with damaged 03 bumpers at the same time as me If a few more 05/06 owners were on their toes they would have had a good chance to swap for Nismo. Or 03/04 people could have sold theirs to do an 05/06 swap. I don't think many people pay that much attention to the differances though.

^yea a non G sedan owner probably wouldnt notice the difference between a painted 03 vs an 05

That is one thing I like though about the 05 rear (or Nismo) painted sills, lower suspension, nice little mods like that. It makes the car look good in a way that's not clearly obvious at first. I've had more than one person complement my car and ask what year it was, then be shocked that it's 7 years old.
Little things really do add up.
I can't wait till my car is 10 years old and looks even better

I got a deal that I couldn't pass up on the Nismo rear. Paid less than half of what it cost new, which is great because no matter what I would have to have it repainted since Lakeshore Slate wasn't a color option for the 03-04s.

Glad I could help you recoup some of those costs for you bumper swap....haha!

amen same here lol like wine it gets better with age lol , people that don't know the difference between the changes on the 03-04 and 05-06 always think my car is 05 06 cuz is always clean and shiny, but sometimes the doggy door gives it away

Yeah I'm a newbie, when did I say that the headlights were a direct swap...LOL.

^Yeah, @ < 1/2 price, I may have looked more in that direction. Thanks again for helping out with those parts, and for the splashguards. Sounds like you're getting really close to doing the swap on yours. ETA?

^Going to Auto Explosion (body shop) Monday AM.

^Awesome. I'll be looking for the thread

wait, that was a joke bro.......slow your roll ..........


you are not a newbie, not recent forum member, not stock, not zero i-trader and not 300 post count and NOT telling me or others that BS about the stock 05 to 03 headlight swap.....

LOL, it was just that the OP was like "that's great candlestick, but can anyone else chime in.........when you first responded....just making fun of that.

^Oh I see, I had to check my original post, thought that maybe I said head lights instead of tail lights...hehe.

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