04-22-2020, 10:27 PM | #1 |
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Ebay Black Grill Installed
So this was the easiest mod install I've ever done. Took me 30 seconds to remove the grill and front camera. In my E46 M3 days the freaking clips were so tight or maybe I just had even girlier hands back then.
Anyway, for the price of about $80USD this thing is well worth it. It came well packaged form China. Painted in a nice gloss black finish. Fits well and all the clips line up. It may be off center a mm or two but I can't tell. One thing is that the clips for the front camera aren't a perfect fit but it will hold the camera in just fine. Sorry about the head turn pics. Not sure why that's happening. Last edited by M3 Chris; 04-22-2020 at 10:43 PM.. |
04-23-2020, 08:18 AM | #3 |
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Good job
Got mine from Taiwan back in November 2019, and the installation is pretty easy... Just one piece of advice; maybe for others considering do this job, its worth using masking tape under the lower edge gaps and up the sides before removing the original grill and installing the new. The lower edge is slightly susceptible to scratching as you angle the grill out, and install the new. |
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Took longer for me to get the front camera off as that was a bit tighter. |
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I was too excited and just went at it LOL |
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04-23-2020, 03:31 PM | #6 | |
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I also found the quality of the grill from Taiwan good too. I was waiting around in the new car show-room at my local BMW dealer for my service to be finished back in December 2019, and checked out a few cars (X5 & X6's) that had the shadowline black grill, and the BMW OEM version both looked, felt (I think smelt..) the same - so very happy with mine off eBay. Wouldn't be surprised if the OEM version comes out of the same factory in Taiwan... |
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04-24-2020, 03:10 AM | #9 |
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I ordered it before corona virus took a huge dump on our front lawn so the pricing and exhange rate was better.
I got mine here https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Pair-Gloss-B...-/372862759286 |
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04-24-2020, 06:11 AM | #10 |
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I keep getting seconds thoughts about buying copies
There's UK bmw dealership selling the genuine part for £230 delivered and I think it may be worth it for the piece of mind
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04-24-2020, 02:34 PM | #11 |
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Money not an issue I would always go OEM. But this was my first ever Ebay china part purchase and wanted to try it out. It was cheap enough that if the quality was sub par I would order OEM afterwards. My car is a lease anyway so it was worth it to me to give it a try,
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I did look online, think I was swayed by the delivery time. OEM, this week vs June from China
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04-28-2020, 05:37 PM | #13 |
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Amazon order arrived. Couple minutes work and ....
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04-29-2020, 03:05 PM | #14 |
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Looks amazing!!!
Have you got the details or a link?
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2019-2020 Glossy Black Kidney... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WZYFP74...p_mob_ap_share |
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04-30-2020, 07:16 AM | #16 |
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BMW gets their parts from somewhere. Who is to say they don’t sub it out from Asia? Theses plastic grills are not a high skilled part to produce and designed to break apart on a impact.
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I just got my OEM one from getbmwparts and it’s made in China. Haven’t installed it yet though.
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05-02-2020, 04:03 PM | #19 |
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OEM installs quickly like the others. Took the longest masking everything off and despite my best efforts it still found an exposed area and scraped it, but it polished out so no permanent harm done.
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05-03-2020, 06:28 PM | #20 |
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Anyone put the black grille with the tri-colour stripe? I wonder how it looks like on this big size grille
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