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Old 04-19-2009, 04:38 AM
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I have seen gallery photos of Matt BMW California'sRace Mesh Grill. Has anyone else carried out this modification, can anyone advise the best way to carry out the changeover...would I be better buying a replacement grill from ebay and carrying out the task on this or is it relatively straight forward...

Also..There are many members changing their front bumpers for M5 replica items that will mats to the standard frint wings...however, I would like to replace my front wings with M5 wings and retain the M-Sport Bumper... can any one see why this could not be done...
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Originally Posted by johnmw' post='851623' date='Apr 19 2009, 12:38 PM
I have seen gallery photos of Matt BMW California'sRace Mesh Grill. Has anyone else carried out this modification, can anyone advise the best way to carry out the changeover...would I be better buying a replacement grill from ebay and carrying out the task on this or is it relatively straight forward...

Also..There are many members changing their front bumpers for M5 replica items that will mats to the standard frint wings...however, I would like to replace my front wings with M5 wings and retain the M-Sport Bumper... can any one see why this could not be done...
What is "Race Mesh Grill"? You got any pic or link of it?

And you can always cut your exisiting wings to fit the M5 side grills
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Maybe it's early and I may be a little slow , but what do you mean by "wings"?
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Originally Posted by slickE60' post='851633' date='Apr 19 2009, 12:59 PM
Maybe it's early and I may be a little slow , but what do you mean by "wings"?
Fenders in US, wings in UK
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What is "Race Mesh Grill"? You got any pic or link of it?

And you can always cut your exisiting wings to fit the M5 side grills
I could cut the M5 side vents into the existing arches but the M5 wings are a little more flared...

Look on page 24 of the My Ride gallery...

It's removing the vertical vanes and replacing with mesh...I had planned to use a smaller weave mesh similar to that of the M-Sport bumper...( incidently this is available from Halfords here in the UK)..about ?20...
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Originally Posted by slickE60' post='851633' date='Apr 19 2009, 08:59 AM
Maybe it's early and I may be a little slow , but what do you mean by "wings"?
Wheel arches...
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Originally Posted by johnmw' post='851640' date='Apr 19 2009, 09:13 AM
Wheel arches...
i love the look of the race mesh grills.. can someone..( Gene! please do your magic search for me hun and post up some pics of e60's with race mesh grills?) not many people like the look of those grills.. but i do..
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Originally Posted by melimel' post='881862' date='May 18 2009, 06:08 AM
i love the look of the race mesh grills.. can someone..( Gene! please do your magic search for me hun and post up some pics of e60's with race mesh grills?) not many people like the look of those grills.. but i do..
haha...Happy Monday Mel ...personally..I like black mesh for the lower grill only...















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you rock hun.. i SOOOO love them.. looked into it once.. but if i recall they were pretty pricey.. maybe i can just look into the lower? hmmm
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someone please photoshop that top alpine white baby to have black grille surroundings. I like the top one, some of the other ones look like poo
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