This post has two purposes. First, to ***** a couple pictures of my car with newly installed Nismo replica rear add ons:








Second, when I removed the rear splash guards from each side I noticed a gray-ish mark on the bumper that follows the contour of the OEM mud guard. You can see it in the picture below. I thought it was just dirt and road grime since the mud guards have been on there for 3 years now (since I bought the car) and it is daily driven year-round. But it turns out that the mark is actually a rough spot from where dirt and sand and crap must have gotten lodged between the splash guard and the bumper and then the vibrations from daily use caused the paint to get chewed up along the edge. You can see a phantom outline of the OEM splash guard above the nismo piece.

Any ideas how I can fix this? Not sure if touch-up paint will do the trick, and I've already tried Scratch-X with no success.

 

clay bar maybe?

 

Wetsand with 1500 and then handbuff it with some rubbing compound, and wax it.

 

nice...!

what are you lowered on? and you need spacers some 20mm front, 25mm rear..

 

Thanks for the suggestions guys, I will give it a try next weekend.


Thanks! Lowered on Hotchkis springs. And these are just my "in between" wheels/tires, i.e. it's too warm for winter tires but there is still crap on the roads so I don't want to put the Volks on yet. So for another week or so I'll rock the OEM wheels, then I have some 19x9.5 +22, 19x10.5 +22 going on so now spacers necessary

 

^great!

once them Volks are on, post couple of pics

 

Will do

I just realized tonight though that I think I installed the rear add-on pieces incorrectly. I think they are supposed to be rotated outward and moved a bit higher....but they seemed to fall into place in the position I ended up with. Removing the 3M tape that is holding them on to reposition them is going to be painful...

 

i don't think it's noticable.. just let it be.

 

Couldn't wait any longer so I put my new Volks on tonight....although this isn't the wheel section, I think the wider wheels installed makes the body kit so much better. Just one pic for now, I'll probably post more in the wheels/tires section. I showed my pics to the vendor that sold me the nismo rears and he is saying that it looks right to him, so I guess I'm not going to relocate them.

 

Sick!!! Where'd you get the rears from ?

 

Got them from Peter @ M1 Autosport in california. Had to do some filing / shaving to get them to fit, and they still don't fit quite right, but from 5 feet away they look good enough and for the price it's not bad. They were painted before they shipped to me and I must say the paint job was very, very nice!