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Thought I'd share.
A few weeks ago I put some black SE mirrors on my GXE. I've got black wheels, so I thought they looked pretty good together.
I wanted to change it up a little bit and add some color. I ended up combining the gxe mirrors with the black se mirrors (I've noticed a lot of newer cars are like this).
It was pretty easy to do, you just basically take them apart and put them back together. Not bad for a few hours and a few beers on a sunday afternoon.
My next mod will probably be getting rid of the chrome gxe trim!
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just sayin... you must be a very very different height than me or something. mine have the inside edge of the mirror poking out past the housing for the way i'm sitting in the car. but then again i have my seat pretty far up.
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Originally Posted by JasonOksa
Horsepower, torque and speed are all known by The State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.
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Originally Posted by bigleman
how much would it cost to resleeve?
how does an aluminum motor form rust on the cylinder walls???
DO NOT PM ME ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH YOUR CAR UNLESS I TELL YOU TO. THAT'S WHAT THE FORUM IS FOR
ok, but I only backed out of the garage when I took the pictures, so I don't think I had adjusted them yet.
Thanks for the though!
ook. so you still left the black part attached to the car, but just swapped the white part? do you have to remove the glass part when doing so? just curious.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonOksa
Horsepower, torque and speed are all known by The State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigleman
how much would it cost to resleeve?
how does an aluminum motor form rust on the cylinder walls???
DO NOT PM ME ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH YOUR CAR UNLESS I TELL YOU TO. THAT'S WHAT THE FORUM IS FOR
yes, you have to remove the glass to get to the screws holding the 2 pieces together. There is a screw at the bottom that lets the whole motor/mirror assembly come out.
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I saw this mod on a car thats on cardomain and was thinking about doing it also ur car looks just like mine but i have an 92 gxe AUto. nice mod tho
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Let us know how your next project (the GXE chrome one) goes. It's especially difficult to paint stainless steel and it's also hard to remove those trim pieces without breaking the white plastic clips that hold them in. I've been down this road before and gave up...
very nice mod on the mirrors. wish i could do this to mine but as you can see; whats the point if my car is dark anyway. as for the chrome trim you either paint them or just remove them and go to the dealer and buy new SE trim. right now im buying piece by piece from the dealer to get rid of the chrome trim on my GXE. i already did the grill mod but thats about it. again good job on your mirror mod.
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'93 GXE 5-spd - sporting JDM power fold heated mirrors.
'97 SE Auto - finally running.
'08 BMW 335i Twin Turbo 6-speed - d/d temp.
96 Green A/T gone
94 Pathfinder POS GONE! | 79 Camaro sold
98 I30t Silver on black A/T gone | 96 Granite Pearl (AKA Purple) A/T gone
92 grey VE A/T gone | 96 I30 Black gone
92 maroon VE A/T gone | 92 white VE M/T gone
92 grey VE A/T gone | 6/84 L24E last of the RWD Maxima gone
I'm still thinking about the chrome trim. I've tried removing them (in the junk yard) but I always break the clips or bend them. I've tried painting, but it always starts flaking off. I might use some of that black trim tape.
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I'm still thinking about the chrome trim. I've tried removing them (in the junk yard) but I always break the clips or bend them. I've tried painting, but it always starts flaking off. I might use some of that black trim tape.
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About the trim might is now gone i did that a long time ago i also painted the mirrors black too i just taped it off real good and sanded the "crome trim" so the primer would stick then painted it flat black well its not flat it does have a shine to it a lil but it turned out pretty good i have pix if u wanted to see them...better yet ill just post them in a few mins
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nice! i like that you made half and half, makes 'em pop fer sure. thanks for sharing
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Nice lookin' car, the black trim looks so much nicer - now get rid of that horrible broken pinstripe!
thanks, Thats is not coming off until i get the car painted and dents removed im thinking about taking the door strips off too...lol it was like that when I got the car
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get rid of that pinstripe as stated above and looks like you have some damage the the passenger side fender and hood
......in case you didn't notice
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93 Nissan 240sx Coupe (Sold, too many problems)
98 Nissan Maxima GXE A/T (Sold to sister)
99 Nissan Maxima SE-l 5spd (badace car, sold)
07 Civic Si (sold to afford house)
88 Toyota pickup 4x4 22RE (sold)
96 Nissan Maxima SE 5spd - current
get rid of that pinstripe as stated above and looks like you have some damage the the passenger side fender and hood
......in case you didn't notice
This is about mirrors and getting rid of the chrome i do post of other threads about other things and when i got the car it was already in this shape ok guys? im still working on it and i have found fenders to put on. i have a guy thats willing to take out all dents and repaint it for $1300 so yeah im not worried about the paint and all that stuff right about now im under the hood getting her to run right because there is no point in making her look good and she runs like crap? pretty sure u will understand where im coming from.
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if you still have the levtover mirror parts i'm curious to see how the inverse scheme (pearlwhite base with black front shell) looks also... not necessarily installed on the car, but at least assembled.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonOksa
Horsepower, torque and speed are all known by The State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigleman
how much would it cost to resleeve?
how does an aluminum motor form rust on the cylinder walls???
DO NOT PM ME ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH YOUR CAR UNLESS I TELL YOU TO. THAT'S WHAT THE FORUM IS FOR
that's funny that you asked that. I put them together so I wouldn't loose all the screws and put them in a box
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Those don't look bad, either. add a stillen kit, au-natural, and it would look like it belongs.
they both look pretty good actually.. question.. is the base (body side) seperable from the glass-side of the housing? my personal fav would be black base, black frontal shell, and a pearl glass-side, if it's possible to rig it up that way
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JasonOksa
Horsepower, torque and speed are all known by The State of California to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive disorders.
Quote:
Originally Posted by bigleman
how much would it cost to resleeve?
how does an aluminum motor form rust on the cylinder walls???
DO NOT PM ME ABOUT PROBLEMS WITH YOUR CAR UNLESS I TELL YOU TO. THAT'S WHAT THE FORUM IS FOR
I thought so too,
Infam0usMax, after you get painted, are going to do the mirror mod?
Thinking about getting the car painted the same color or change it to red if i do red this mirror mod would look pretty sick...However this is a pretty nice mod...
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they both look pretty good actually.. question.. is the base (body side) seperable from the glass-side of the housing? my personal fav would be black base, black frontal shell, and a pearl glass-side, if it's possible to rig it up that way
I agree the both do look pretty good...
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KountZ430
driving with them like that
with the white mirrors....
i like it on GXEs, it gives a luxury look to it...but its me..u might not like it lol..
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