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    Default Brothers Nissan Sentra

    Probable one of the best running cheap cars I've ever worked on. My brother spent next to nothing to buy this car with some front end damage and has just been driving the hell out of it for 2 years with no problems. He finally got tired of the color so we fixed the front end damage and painted it. Last weekend we lowered it and installed some visors. Not a bad little car for almost no money.

    Don't have any before pics.

    Painting it.




    After painting the rims

    After having the windows tinted, visors installed and lowering it.


    MtDew bottle can't roll under the cross member.


    Next up is to tint the tail and corner lights and it will be a nice little slow car.

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    Great little cars. Yall gonna finish painting it?


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    ..and exactly what do you plan on doing to the tail lights? Please don't say "tinting them out".
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doppelgänger View Post
    ..and exactly what do you plan on doing to the tail lights? Please don't say "tinting them out".
    I'm guessing you didn't see this part? \/ \/ \/

    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Mike View Post

    Next up is to tint the tail and corner lights and it will be a nice little slow car.
    I'll be honest, I'm not a fan, my man. It's mostly the painting of the factory wheels. That's pretty much always a no go.
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    please DO NOT do anything the lights, PLEASE!

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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge® View Post
    I'll be honest, I'm not a fan, my man. It's mostly the painting of the factory wheels. That's pretty much always a no go.
    I'm not a fan of the painted stock rims ether. He buying rims for it soon and the ugly stock ones are going away.

    Quote Originally Posted by Franco Tirador View Post
    please DO NOT do anything the lights, PLEASE!
    His car and he wants them lightly tented. I have lightly tented tail light on my Jeep and I like the look. There is a point when they are just to dark and then I don't like them.

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    holy crap, if your Jeep lights are lightly tinted I'd hate to see what a regular tinted light looks like...damn.


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    He needs to just end it there resale the car and get a honda or at least a 2 door Sentra or SER hell they come cheap lately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -EnVus- View Post
    He needs to just end it there resale the car and get a honda or at least a 2 door Sentra or SER hell they come cheap lately.
    Why does he "need" to do that? That makes no sense at all.
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    I was like "why" until I read that he got the car for next to nothing and driving it for a couple of years.
    I'm all for toying with cars trying to spend as little as possible.

    +1 on getting rid of those stock wheels.

    Need to get a headlight restoration kit though. :boobies:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Mike View Post
    His car and he wants them lightly tented. I have lightly tented tail light on my Jeep and I like the look. There is a point when they are just to dark and then I don't like them.
    IMHO I think doing a red tint over the amber areas would be about as far as I would go. I have a hard time processing the idea of reducing any light output from tail lights, I like the idea of having them being very visible and easy to see, especially with the fucktards on Atlanta's roads. There are a few applications of lightly tinted tail lights that I find OK, like when the lens is smooth and/or clear.

    Looking forward to seeing it with new wheels on. Any plans to ditch the silly little mudflaps? +1 on buffing those headlights too!

    Quote Originally Posted by -EnVus- View Post
    He needs to just end it there resale the car and get a honda or at least a 2 door Sentra or SER hell they come cheap lately.
    This shit always cracks me up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dj Syco View Post
    holy crap, if your Jeep lights are lightly tinted I'd hate to see what a regular tinted light looks like...damn.
    If your looking at my signiture picture the filter make the picture darker than in person. You can easy see the red under the tint and the light loss at night is not even noticeable. Mine are still a little to dark for my liking but as soon as I get the money for the body armor the tail lights are going to be replaced with round LED tractor trailer lights.

    Quote Originally Posted by -EnVus- View Post
    He needs to just end it there resale the car and get a honda or at least a 2 door Sentra or SER hell they come cheap lately.
    That makes no since at all. Sell a perfectly running 4 door car for a 2 door. Why?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mad Mike View Post
    That makes no since at all. Sell a perfectly running 4 door car for a 2 door. Why?
    I just messed with plenty of Sentras and the 4 door has no good looks or advantage unless you have kids IMO

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    look at all them finger marks on prep! take off tail lights/headlights/mirror ah wtf just being OCD, looks good for a home project.

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    Quote Originally Posted by -EnVus- View Post
    I just messed with plenty of Sentras and the 4 door has no good looks or advantage unless you have kids IMO
    What does your opinion have to do with Mike's brother, though?
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    Quote Originally Posted by quickdodge® View Post
    What does your opinion have to do with Mike's brother, though?
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