track_warrior

Im blacking out my window trim this weekend and wanted to know what you guys did with the chrome molding on the door handles?? Could i see a picture of your cars with the chrome trim in black specially if you have a palladium silver like mine . If not a picture of any car with a blacked out window, grill and rear trim is appreciated. Do you guys recommend me wrapping my whole front grill + emblem or should i leave it chrome????

Here is my car for reference and advice...

twelvehundred

I like a little chrome. I blacked out the rear trim, window trim, and grill, but left the emblem, handles and fog housing. My car is black though.

DuaneC63

See my avatar. The grill is a major PIA. Take it off (it's easy) and bring it to a shop to have done and don't forget them to do the little chrome trim above the grill connected to the hood. Top window trim just pops off with hard plastic tools. This is easier to wrap off the car as it's too long with too many weird curves in it to wrap on the car. The lower window trim you can cheat and wrap on the car but it does shrink and you might end up with some of the chrome showing on the ends. The hardest part is getting it around the side view mirrors. To play is safe you should take it off (this involves taking the side view mirrors off). It's time consuming but looks better. The rear chrome strip on the trunk can be done on the car. As for the emblems. Two schools of thought. Take them off. Sand and Paint. Then get two sided sticky form take and reattach. The PIA is to get them to line up. The other solution is black Plastidip spray on. Sounds scary but you just mask off an area around the emblems and spray it on. Let it dry a few hours then using a very sharp exacto knife score around the emblems at a parallel angle to the body work. I plastidipped sprayed the side emblems too.

lyyca

^^ Agree!!! That's exactly what I did. Just a little chrome to give that luxury feel. Glad you also didn't fully murdah out.

Even Money

Replacing those orange reflectors will make a big difference.

track_warrior

Thanks for the tip man ill take the grill of then, what did you do with the chrome door handle moldings?? And does the side upper trim just pop off and pop in just with a little force from some plastic tools?



Who makes these, and what color do you think would look better, clear or smoked??



KEEP THE PICS COMING GUYS!! Please

Even Money

Evosport or eBay. I would get the paint matched reflectors.

track_warrior

Just got some ebay ones, how much of a pita is taking the old ones out? Im guessing take wheels off, work through the fender? or do i need to remove the bumper?

ctown113

I think your car looks SWEET is it is...
However, I agree with those about the side markers.. I just replaced mine, and I am NO mechanic in any way shape or form. It literally took me 10 minutes... and it looks SO much better..
Good luck

crazy1eye

Looking at doing some plastidiping myself, good info guys, keep it coming.

Ya the orange side markers are a must, somewhat easy to get at from under the hood depending on the size of your arms/hands Got my smoked ones off of eBay, not quite as tight fitting as the oem's but there ok.

AMGFANs

anyone done pasticdip on the grille?

sighting

Yes I have.. My car is dirty but will try and send you a pick later today.

Its fairly easy to peel of if you don't like it.

AkaSigFreak

Very Easy.
1.Turn the front wheels.
2.Pull the 4 retainer pins in the wheel well liner.
3.You can reach up behind and disconnect the harness
4.Pop the reflector out. Some have reported a small screw that needs to be removed, but they are the minority.
5.Reverse process for installation.

ctown113

No need to remove anything... well, I didn't.
I just simply popped the hood and did it from the inside.
"It's easy...
1. You can reach them by hand after opening the hood
2. Unscrew the light bulb/connector.
3. Pop out old reflector.
4. Connect new reflector w/ light bulb...
5. Pop in new reflector.

I didn't have a clue before I did mine, but once the hood was up...was easy to figure out.

Here's the DIY link
https://mbworld.org/forums/c63-amg-w...eflectors.html
or if you Google "C63 side marker DIY" there are many links
It's as easy as 1-2-3.. or 1-2

AkaSigFreak

Wow! That would have been a lot easier. I'll try that next time.

ctown113

Yea.. took me literally 10 minutes to do both

PatSC23

Can anyone instruct me how to remove the chrome trunk handle trim? I want to drop it off for a flat black paint job.

DuaneC63

Just wrap in with 3M. Takes about 15 minutes. Alot easier than painting and no R&R

PatSC23

yea i realized this after i saw in depth how hard it was to remove