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Regret Matte Black??
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| 07-06-2012, 02:19 AM | #1 |
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Regret Matte Black??
Who else regrets buying matte black grilles? I'm definitely switching to gloss black but wish I just bought gloss to begin with to save some money...
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| 07-06-2012, 02:29 AM | #2 | |
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| 07-06-2012, 02:01 PM | #5 |
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Buy my matte grills- they're from **********s and for 2011+ E92 / E93- only on the car a month- look brand new! 50 bucks shipped! (they run 72 bucks plus shipping on **********s)
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| 07-06-2012, 02:23 PM | #6 | |||
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| 07-06-2012, 02:28 PM | #7 |
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I love my matte black grills. The gloss ones look so cheap in person. You wonder why the iS guys are always swapping theirs out for the matte ones: It makes the front look huge.
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| 07-06-2012, 02:42 PM | #10 |
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Boycotting teaser threads
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I painted my stocks matte, didn't love it. Resprayed them with a semi-flat and love it.
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| 07-06-2012, 02:45 PM | #12 |
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I originally painted my chrome grills, matte black on my tiag, thought they were kinda boring and chipped like crazy without a clear coat. After wrapping my roof gloss black I used the left over vinyl to wrap the top mustache parts of the grilled. I liked the look alot better so I repainted the bottom half gloss black.
IMO gloss grills on the pre lci e90s look much better because of the larger surface area on top. On the other models I don't think it makes a huge difference. The whole journey only cost me 20 bucks probably so no regrets
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| 07-06-2012, 03:06 PM | #13 |
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YES!!! haha matte black gives an agressive look but looks really cheap to a lot of people. gloss/painted is the way to go, it gives a classy clean look to it that you won't regret. Also for those who have black cars gloss works extremely well at night! :]]
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| 07-06-2012, 03:10 PM | #14 |
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I replaced just the inner grille section with matte black and left the chrome outer ring on my E92. Looks good to me and in consistent with the silver window trim on the rest of the car. Mine is Jet Black so the contrast is very nice.
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| 07-07-2012, 03:34 AM | #16 | |
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Interesting , I started with performance gloss and switched to matte black
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| 07-07-2012, 11:00 AM | #17 | |
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| 07-07-2012, 11:33 AM | #18 | ||
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Actually. It seems I have the dissenting opinion Your gloss pick seems to be the favorite among the replies Who knows, I may flip back to gloss But I did like your comment about the matte looking more aggressive 
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| 07-07-2012, 12:37 PM | #19 | |
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