Well it was getting about time to change the 265-75/16 Kumho MT's I had, so I decided it might as well be time to change everything. After researching and thinking and comparing and contrasting and then finally deciding, I organized a big pile of parts that I wanted my 2010 Pathfinder to have. Before this weekend I was completely stock except for MT's that were noisy, rough, and worn down to a baby ass.. So over the weekend, I literally transformed it into a new car. I cannot explain it any other way, it really looks like a completely different vehicle! And that car did not leave that shop until the pile was empty. Friday afternoon I went to my tire place and got 285-75/16 Nitto Trail Grapplers installed. Yes, it was kind of ignorant to get them installed with no lift and no alignment. I realize this. However, I was in it for the cosmetics! I wanted to see this thing roll in the shop and back out completely different. So I drove back making 26 point turns and waited for the alignment until the first of the week. Friday evening I began at around 6:00 and installed rancho quick lifts on the front, plastidipped my front two rims with 4 coats of gunmetal grey, 2 coats of smoke, and one dusting of silver metalizer, installed my roof rack covers, tore down the dash and removed my stock radio, replaced my cabin lights, and replaced my headlights. Left the shop around 3:00 a.m. Returned around 11:00 the next day and finished my front two rims, removed my tail lights and applied 4 coats of smoke, installed a Bravo Vision IN7000-BT head unit (lots of crimping, I can still feel it in my wrist
), got my two Cree LED fog lights mounted using some of the most makeshift brackets ever (but they work great!) as well as my 22" LED bar, then after my front tires had had enough time to dry I reinstalled them and got to work on the back. Jacked it up, took the wheels off, did the same process with the rims, and installed the 1" rear spacers from 4x4parts.com. By then, it was around 1:30 a.m., so I called it a night. The next day around 2:00 I got back on it and installed new door speakers on the front two doors and wired my LED's into a switch mounted beside the mirror adjuster switches. Those two things by themselves took from 2 to 11:30! The LED lights each had about 5 or 6" of wire. Trying to connect them all to each other and to a switch as well as have it run clean so that it looks good is a job, I can tell you that. The schematic I had to design would spin anyone in two circles before they traced it all out. There was a lot of "hmmm so this is going here and I need that there, but that comes here while going there and I want it here". I had crimpers running to doublers that ran to triplers which all crimped to other wires and split off again.. Hahaha I can say that I designed it, but it is almost as if I just found the parts that fit the step I was at in the process, winged it, and it turned out perfect. Nonetheless, it all came together and I could not be happier. I have no clue how to post pictures on this forum but my pathy is sittin mean and lookin right now. I have a few pictures of before and after shots if I can get them up. Btw, all of this was shipped to my door and installed for close to $800--Thanks Amazon!
