Larz wrote:Dean,
Those fog lamps are brilliant! Where did you get them and was it a kit? They appear to fit nicely in our existing housing.
A little bit of work with a heat gun took care of the fender liners. They are taught but fit just fine and everything lines up. No, it is an absolute color difference, not reflectivity (have you seen the rest of my car? Clay'd, wet sanded and polished the whole car a few months ago. Looks like glassCPJ LB wrote:wow...quick work Dean!! did you also get the wheel fender liners from the 08 M? the ones on our cars (2006) are shorter so with the 08 bumper there is a small gap between the fender liners and wheel well.
overall, looks good...not sure how to fix the color shade difference...possibly polishing the original front-side fenders...? besides, the fresh paint will always look 'shiny' compared to the other surfaces...I'm sure its hardly noticeable out on the street.....
all the work you've done to your M, you can open up your own shop!! You'll have plenty of customers from this forum
DeanM45 wrote:Needed to take a break today to re-install the front plate because LAPD made a HUGE deal out of it and to take a look at the damage from an ink pen that fell out of my pocket and on to the seat and sat in 110 degree heat, in the sun, with the windows up!
First the seat: the pen literally melted onto the seat. How it fell out of my pocket and landed there I will never know. I got the ink out but unfortunately it pulled out the dye as well. Cleaned it again and treated the leather so it is now SUPER super soft. As soon as the dye comes in I will redye the lower portion:
Since I had to pull the front bumper off to reinstall the front plate (long story regarding the initial removal) I went ahead and did a quasi Audi mod to the lights:
Also, removed the black paint and re-polished the thin "rails" on the grill:
The lights are under the headlights so you can not see them with the car off. The exposure is wacky because they are so bright -- great for DRL.
I like the grill a lot more now---very subtle but it is noticeable.
I ** may ** dye the center of the seats (or maybe the whole seat, all of them) a different color. The infiniti dye is pretty easy to pull out and it is definitely water based (not lacquer) so a recolor would be easy. Will think on that over the next few days.
While driving home today I figured I'd try the adaptive cruise control even though the lower grill I have now does NOT have the cutout for the sensor. Guess what, it worked flawlessly. This is cool because now I will not have that big blank space in the lower grill. Very cool.BadMan35s wrote:can you post pics of how your headlights with the leds look at night