bigjhimon

I just blacked out my 2009 CL550 grill and smoked the tail lights.
Used vinyl and I think it came out pretty slick . Got someone in OC to do it for around $160 and I think it made a huge difference in looks.

What do you guys think?

adamls2

I want to do this to my 600. Does the vinyl match 100% to the body color? How does that work?

bigjhimon

Yes it does match. It makes a big difference with the grill and it looks like its painted.

bigjhimon

It takes about an hour to do and you could always peel it off if you dont lik. You dont get rock chips either

adamls2

Thanks for the info. Now I need to find someone that can do wraps around me! Haha

bigjhimon

No problem. I would say to do it yourself but its not easy. Ive seen places charge between $100 to $150 just for the grill.

BLKMAMBA

I have my grill painted black also but I have the chrome trim unpainted. I only have one rock chip. The blacked out grill is a must.

bigjhimon

Can you pleas post pics of your car? It looks amazing from the what I can see

BLKMAMBA

Thanks. Here you go:

bigjhimon

Hot!
I thought you tinted your headlights too, guess not

BLKMAMBA

Headlights? I don't think that would be good decision as far as visibility goes.

bigjhimon

The lightest tint is not that bad. It makes it look light gray.

It would look like these headlights

bigjhimon

Heres another example of how light you can tint them. This car is fully wrapped

BLKMAMBA

Not bad.

Helmut430

MAMBA...Really like the way your grille looks!!! If only I was that bold and daring, but alas, I am old and afraid.

BLKMAMBA

It's really no that complex. The chrome trims slide off. A good custom shop will know that. I think my ex gf paid $575.00 to have a shop do it. Trust me the car looks much better than the stock. I have seen a few CL 's with the grill fully black but that's not my taste.

adamls2

I realized my front bumper is different than your cars, and mine has a huge chrome strip that runs across it...so I'm thinking it wouldn't look right if I blacked out the grill. Still trying to visualize it...but here's a decent pic of how it looks like...
You can see I still have fish bowl status, hahaha! Maybe I'll wait until I get new shoes on and then go from there.

BLKMAMBA

Paint it!

bigjhimon

You dont have the AMG sport package so the front bumper is different. The disctronic emblem with a black grill will look great actually. You could black out the chrome on the bottom part as well

M1RAG3

looks great man...definitely better than stock