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#104
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
I have Brabus door pins now. Fronts are twist on and rears are pressure caps. The CF ones on my old set only worked for front twist ons.
#106
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
#107
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
That's what the instructions said, but I did it slightly different. I fit it over the original caps. I figured as soon as I pull off the cap, it'd be useless as you break the ball/socket design so tested it out by cutting off the nipple tip and pushed the cap over the existing plastic pin cap. I could always just pull off the original plastic pin cap if I didn't like how is sat, but couldn't go back the other way if I was to pull off the cap, breaking the ball-socket. Worked out well, so I kept it that way.
#109
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
I do my own detailing. Paint is better than when it came off the dealership. Did a full decontamination cycle and polish to get the paint perfect. There's a post somewhere I made under my non-sponsor account AZN_C300 where I outlined my full yearly detailing process and schedule.
#110
Super Member
Here are the pics. If anyone is interested in this, send me a PM. Not looking to make money, just recoup the money spent on this. Will be plug and play. We'll need to swap fog grilles though, unless you want to drill the hole to shimmy the wire through and heat glue the halo on yourself. Here are the pics I just took from my parking garage. I tried different lighting options on the camera to give you the best sense. The halos are perfect white. Running 8000K HID heads and fogs, showing up bluer on camera than they really are though.
Did you sell these or replace theme with DRL?
Last edited by Nicholi2007; 04-02-2023 at 11:25 AM.
#111
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
I sold them. The concern was how fragile the actual halos were to be sitting exposed like that. One rock and it's over. There are a lot more halo options out there now than there were back then so these would be fairly simple to source back.
#113
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
On white, I personally think blacked out front grille looks amazing. I loved my 2-tone contrasting black grille and maintaining two grilles was fun to change out back and forth for different look.
#115
Super Member
Wow I love the grill! I have a black C300 sport, and I am currently getting the whole grill gloss black except for the Mercedes emblem kept in chrome. Do you guys think it would look good on a black car?
Thanks
Thanks
#116
A little off topic question about changing out the grilles, Ive swapped mine out to paint the OEM and then to replace with my single fin AMG style now. Im wondering if anyone has ever had a problem with the snap tabs from bumper cover to grille wearing out or getting loose after too many changes?
#117
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
Your car looks great.
A little off topic question about changing out the grilles, Ive swapped mine out to paint the OEM and then to replace with my single fin AMG style now. Im wondering if anyone has ever had a problem with the snap tabs from bumper cover to grille wearing out or getting loose after too many changes?
A little off topic question about changing out the grilles, Ive swapped mine out to paint the OEM and then to replace with my single fin AMG style now. Im wondering if anyone has ever had a problem with the snap tabs from bumper cover to grille wearing out or getting loose after too many changes?
https://mbworld.org/forums/c-class-w...-part-out.html
#118
Super Member
Apparently the dealership that I was going to get my grill painted at said "they cannot do it..." What's new lol. Anyways, AZN Optics, is your grill painted or vinyl? Since they did not want to paint it I am thinking about doing the sane grill style except leaving the star emblem chrome.
Thanks.
Thanks.
#119
Junior Member
HELL YEAH MAN!!!!
Car looks awesome, of course we are going with pretty much the EXACT same color scheme your just front lip, hood wrap, and engine cover painted in front of me haha, I got groundforce GF06 19x9.5 black wheels but car is looking AWESOME!! nice work!!
Car looks awesome, of course we are going with pretty much the EXACT same color scheme your just front lip, hood wrap, and engine cover painted in front of me haha, I got groundforce GF06 19x9.5 black wheels but car is looking AWESOME!! nice work!!
#120
SPONSOR/MBworld Guru
Apparently the dealership that I was going to get my grill painted at said "they cannot do it..." What's new lol. Anyways, AZN Optics, is your grill painted or vinyl? Since they did not want to paint it I am thinking about doing the sane grill style except leaving the star emblem chrome.
Thanks.
Thanks.
I had everything originally painted, but over time, had a few rock chips on the matte black slat parts so I had my vinyl guy make me matte black vinyl sheets (similar to what I did with the CF slats) for the slats which he applied. More durable to rock chips and easier to simply replace in the even they need replacing.
You can contact John at JSDesignFactory.com as can sell you the vinyl overlay sheets for the grille slats.