Cool. I'm just trying to figure out if Infiniti offers a rear shelf (part above the back seats) for the premium with a third brake light. I took my spoiler off and now have no third brake light. I plan to order a new one and want to make sure I get the right part. It sounds like they do offer that right part.

 

hey removing it wont make you slower...lol

 

it's purpose is primarily aesthetics. Most consumers don't care to see engine parts, hoses and wires... the cover makes a "semi-luxury" car look more "refined". *might help with sound too.

The reason most take it off is performance related (as minimal as it may be, it's free) - theory = cover on traps engine block heat and makes the plenum hot, therefor the intake air hot (same principal as using Motodyne Iso-Thermal kit).

For the last couple years, engine bay dress-up has been very popular = polished plenum & timing cover, wire tuck, etc... so the cover comes off to show off the engine rather than hide the ugly.

There is no good reason to have it on unless you are a chick that is not into cars and just dont want to see all the goings on in the engine bay.

 

idk if you took off the engine cover, battery cover, trunk carpet, and coupe midpipe u might you save a little weight..lol

 

Mine has the third brake light integrated into that shelf, at the back of the Bose cover. So I would assume Infiniti makes that part, a junkyard may be a good place to find one also.

 

i have an 06 that has every package and add on Infiniti offers but the lady who owned it before me did not want the spoiler, nav or big wheels lol basically i have everything except them 3 things

and my 3rd brake light is built into the rear shelf center since there is no spoiler

 

i want nav....lol

 

with smart phones and bluetooth why would you ever want/need big clunky nav screen?

Movies and TV or whatever I guess... but there are better alternatives for nav.

 

well i really want a carputer...not a popup nav screen...good point

 

carputer wold be good - or external display for android phone... I bought a DD kit recently and couldnt think of anything I really cared to use the display for - and rarely listen to music in the car (rarely drive the car)... so I ditched the whole thing.

'puter (or web browsing monitor) is the only think I would want display for... and I didnt know how to go about making it happen and wasnt interested enough to figure it out.

 

lol, only thing my pop up nav is good for now is impressing people. I dont use it any more :X

 

i just want integrated mpg read out so i can play with it...lol

 

^ meh lol. It does boast as a Eco Gauge, which companies are using it as a special feature to sell cars now.

 

I have DD but always wanted the pop up screen, just to say I have it I guess. Would be cool to hook up a rear view camera to it.

 

^ That's allllllmost sig worthy right there

^That's no all that difficult with an in-car PC. Plus, unlike the one on the NAV system, you can tweak variables on a car PC MPG readout to make it more accurate.