^ lol

 

What's so funny his cars all nice and shiny with a dull grill

 

i think they go well together, matte is cool. I would take that over stock anyday but to each his own

 

I have those coupe wheels on my sedan, too. What size tire do you have up front?

 

This is way late but they're 225/50/18 in the front and 245/45/18 in the back. I thought I was THE ONLY person who had the coupe wheels on the sedan. Mine happened because the place I bought it ordered the wrong "stock" wheels to replace the aftermarket wheels that were initially on there but I didn't gripe THAT much since they're the same size and I like the looks, plus it differentiates mine from everyone elses!

 

Great job! I actually have done this to my old Altima. Very easy to do, just time consuming. I actually did the same but put a coat of clear coat on it. Try it, it will give you the gloss your looking for. Ps Just bought a 08 G35X, hello everyone.

 

good job looks much better

 

nice

 

Looks WAY better! All that work paid off.

 

Welcome to the "G" family where all the "G" entlemen mingle!! lol

 

looks good

 

anything is always better than the stock look

 

Any tips to doing this? I'm a local retrofitter (do a lot of work on Maximas) and had a buddy with one of these come to me for a black out just like this with the same color car. I'm down for the job but kind of nervous since these headlights are so damn expensive. I have faith in my work but I'm kind of nervous to screw something up.

 

Came out pretty clean

 

It's a relatively straight-forward job but I've done three sets of lights and here are some "tips":

1) Let the bezels dry COMPLETELY before you ever think about put them back into the headlights. The first pair I ever did I started on a Saturday and let them dry until Sunday night and then put everything back together because I had to drive to work Monday morning. Well that was enough drying time and the inside of the lens ended up getting paint fumes/dust all over it and became VERY hazy. I eventually had to take everything back apart and spend quite a while cleaning the inside of the lens. For the set on my G I waited until I had a 3 day weekend and I took off Friday also to make it a 4 day weekend. I started painting late Friday night (took me all day Friday to take everything apart and sand it down) and I was done painting by the end of the day Saturday. Then I let the lights dry from Saturday night until Monday night before reinstalling. Never had any issues with hazing.

2) Be super careful when putting the bezels back in the lights, it's quite easy to scratch them as the tolerances around the edges are quite small. My only tip here is to figure out the easiest way to take the bezels in and out of the lens BEFORE you paint them. So as soon as you take everything apart, play around with the lens and bezel and figure out how to put the bezel in so that it hardly touches the lens.

3) Get it perfect the first time. On my second pair of headlights, although I allowed enough drying time I had one small place on the headlights that I had messed up while painting (kicked it with my sandal!) but I didn't worry about it too much, I thought it wouldn't bother me. Well a few months later I ended up taking everything apart and sanding down that spot and refinishing it, a big hassle. Would have been much easier to fix the first go round.

Good luck and don't worry, just be careful and take your time and they'll look SICK!