For those of you who have black trims!!
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For those of you who have black trims!!
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...
. 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...
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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...
. 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...
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.
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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.
Who makes these, and what color do you think would look better, clear or smoked??
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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...
. 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...
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
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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
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