AMG BRED

i wonder how it would look on a silver car? anybody can photoshop it on for me please?

http://www.pbase.com/image/21121392

http://www.pbase.com/image/21121375

AMG BRED

this grille:

http://www.iauto.lv/images/news/oct2003/clk3.jpg

moa4r

hmmm, i'd be curious to see how that would look w/ a silver car too...how about painting it silver???!!!

AMG BRED

that would then look more artificial? know what i mean?

Micah

Yeah, I don't know about black on silver, but I would like to see silver on silver. Black on black looks good.

moa4r

only way would be to see one

AMG BRED

i was thinking the black grille would look good 'cause the stock grille is black with chrome lining.. if you paint it all silver, it's a like a honda ricer taking a paint can at it... just doesn't feel like it belongs on a MB then.

BrabusClK04

AMG Bred...Yeah i actually started a thread couple months back asking the same question. I wanted to do the same exact thing on my Pewter, but people have advise me that it only looks good on a Black car. Well if you do decide to do this, your going to have to color match the grill to the same color. It may look good. But yes, post pics if you do this.....

Nicholai_AMG

this brabus black grill kills!!! perhaps someone can photoshop it on a silver car but not me sorry

amgbred your car looks realy awsome!!!!more pix needed please!! !!

AMG BRED

more pics can be found at http://www.pbase.com/brabus_clk

Frisco

I thought that Brabus grill was supposed to be made of CF? I think a painted grill would look bad, and I'm having a tough time figuring out if a custom CF grill (Ie. silver in your case) would look incredibly hot or incredibly stupid. I'm getting one of those custom CF interior kits for my car and was also debating the idea of doing something with the grill...

AMG BRED

with the help of a friend.. i got a quich photoshop done:
Before:

After:


what you think?

this one i attempted myself.. i suck at photoshop:

Before:


After:


what you think frisco?

BrabusClK04

AMG Bred, I cant tell the differenc, HAHA

Oh, BTW, I remeber asking you about your fogs last time. I know its illegal to turn on 4 fogs during the night, but wow, I looks really nice. Its not actually that bright. I was actually tempted to change the fogs to xenon fogs, but i was afraid it will attract too many attention. I'll post some pictures for you this weekend if it doent rain here in Los Angeles. Thanks

AMG BRED

ohhhh.. please do take some pics..

I think i am going to rewire my fogs to turn all 4 on at the same time.. but weather is so cold, i refuse to stand outside more then i need to.
have you checked the classifieds forum lately, someone is selling a pewter CLK55 lip spoiler.. I think you should pick it up

https://mbworld.org/forums/showthrea...threadid=60176

moa4r

i think the one you did shows more how it would look, to me it seems like a black grill would look hot on your car

AMG BRED

yeah moa4r, i think so too.. thanks

i shot Harris an e-mail already

BrabusClK04

Sure will take some pic for ya.

Now how about someone do a photoshop of the star gone and the entire grill painted silver. I just wanna see how that looks. Thanks

AMG BRED

i don't think that will look good, and i don't have that much skills on photoshop to do that. i think i bugged my friend enuff already. if somebody here on mbworld can do that, i will greatly appreciate it. Did you see the link i posted?

Tezta

I like the black grill chrome star look..i want to do the same but dont know if the chrome strips are paintable.

AMG BRED

why shouldn't they be?

AMG///Merc

In my opinion, it sort of gives it that "race only" look, (the same way black wheels do) and that it just doesn't match the rest of the car. I think that it's just too much contrast. Now coincidentally, I was at the local dealer earlier today, and there was a silver SL55 with a body colored grill, and it looked spectacular. It looked reeaallyy nice. I guess it comes that way stock, but I had never noticed before. I thought about it, but being that my car is Pewter, I'm concerned that it might not look quite as well. By the way, here's a strong argument for having the grill painted... Ever since my grill's plastic, errr uhhmmm > >cough-cough<< "chrome" started peeling, I've noticed that allot of MB cars have the same problem. Sure warranty will replace it, but it's a safe bet that the new piece will peel as well...


Best regards,
Matt

p.s.) Anyone having trouble with what would seem to be an above average amount of paint chips? (Like me...)

Frisco

I'll try to play around with PS later today. Your car looks hot either way; I don't think the effect is pronouced enough though to warrant doing all the work. I looked at mine yesterday and still think the grill would look hot in CF.

I think we all need is the CF trim piece like on the K8 CLK (probably custom made, group buy?):

AMG BRED

wow!!! look at the add-on CF lower lip.

Harris told me that those grilles are for their show cars only and not for retail.. for us to achieve that look, we'd have to send down the chrome and wrap the grille in CF.. sounds like too much work for me.

Frisco

Oh you hadn't seen that?!!! Yeah I don't think brabus will sell the K8 parts, but I'd be willing to take the lead on a custom CF trim piece if some of you guys would be interested in some sort of group buy cost sharing. Here's another pic of it:

AMG BRED

count me in