M-Style Side Grilles
02-01-2009 | 01:39 PM
#43
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From: Chalandri/Athina/Hellas
Ok, I wouldn't do ...but sometimes (almost always) a want to check myself how will look, and then to decide, keep or ditch. So here it is. ...I think it looks better on a black car, also it is very well made I have to say.
Sorry for the blurry pic, but tihs is the only one I have for now.
+ a closer view one
Sorry for the blurry pic, but tihs is the only one I have for now.
+ a closer view one
02-02-2009 | 08:59 AM
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From: Chalandri/Athina/Hellas
Originally Posted by iCharles' post='776641' date='Jan 25 2009, 06:25 AM
If M5's were the only, or the first car on the road with side grilles your comment about posing might apply. I think in certain applications this looks good, but in any circumstance - to each their own.
02-02-2009 | 10:45 AM
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My Ride: 2007 550i, Mystic Blue over Auburn, 6-Manual, Sports, Premium, Cold Weather, Logic 7, Nav, Sirius, MTec Front & Sides with M5 rear apron, VIS Penta carbon fiber vented hood, OEM M166s, (or Style 101M with winter 19 Blizzaks), BMW Blue Calipers, Custom Quad Exhaust and M5 side grills, trunk finisher and spoiler. Rogue Octane SSK/WSR and Zeckhausen CDV, BMW illuminated shift knob, Delivered 4/26/06 - Ordered 3/18/06 from Otto's (the Best) BMW Dealership.
Don't have to give up so easy... It's really that that big a deal or costly to add the grills- many have done it and it looks great... I get more compliments on those grills than on my MTec kit or even quad exhaust. When I stop at a light next to a kid or teenager you can see them check it out. Just don't badge it M5 and you're not posing.
Just my $.02
Just my $.02
02-02-2009 | 02:18 PM
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My Ride: 2007 550i, Mystic Blue over Auburn, 6-Manual, Sports, Premium, Cold Weather, Logic 7, Nav, Sirius, MTec Front & Sides with M5 rear apron, VIS Penta carbon fiber vented hood, OEM M166s, (or Style 101M with winter 19 Blizzaks), BMW Blue Calipers, Custom Quad Exhaust and M5 side grills, trunk finisher and spoiler. Rogue Octane SSK/WSR and Zeckhausen CDV, BMW illuminated shift knob, Delivered 4/26/06 - Ordered 3/18/06 from Otto's (the Best) BMW Dealership.
I don't know what the magnet ones look like (I wouldn't think of it) but mine are stock grills with the cutouts in the exact place the M are located. The fenders look "bare" without them in my mind- of course that's after looking at them for 18 months but they are much more aggressive looking and BMW shoudl have added these stock-