vigsz

My custom e class went from black to white this week! So happy with the result , here are some pics of the benz in white, ill post how the black looked before in the comments below. Leave me some feedback, thanks.

Custom painted grille black, hood vent also black, panoramic roof, window spoiler black, hood lip black, side mirrors kept black.

DarkieJohn

wow lower it please

vigsz

Lol just realized I took the pic when the car was raised on the jack. It's not that high , but yea I do wanna lower it

AMGAffalterbach

Slick, very nice. Were you the one asking about the Plastidip versus Vinyl? Because either way it turned out great.

vigsz

Haha yea that was me, went vinyl, a bit mad I noticed a little scratch ( from a rock im guessing) on the hood, you could see the black paint under gotta see what I can do with that

AMGAffalterbach

Well I definitely see what look you were going for and I'm glad you went with Vinyl as it looks great, but it will happen. At least it didn't do that much damage to your paint I hope.

AMGAffalterbach

Also, what bulbs are you using for your parking lights in that pic? They are bluish and I really like that hope to change those out on mine when/if I do HID conversion.

FromM3toE55

looks good!

WHTEVO

I think it looks great. Does it look good up close? What was your cost on doing this?

Aaron

vigsz

It looks great up close as well, like a real paint job, it cost me 2 grand

AMGAffalterbach

Yeah Vinyl is NOT cheap by any means unless you can do it yourself which is... yeah best left to the professionals. Are the parking lights also HID or what bulb are you using to get the 6000K style color?

vigsz

The parking lights on the side of the bumper are the original bulbs I just changed the orange light case to a clear one, the front lights are all from the dealer I'm not sure if that answers your question

AMGAffalterbach

No I did the same things to my sidemarker lights I replaced the stupid looking orange markers with white ones and an amber bulb. Looks much better, but I was talking about the front ones - no worries though. Looks great.

Toolman_Johnny

How do the edges look?....like when you open the hood? Just curious. At that price ($2000) I can't help but ask what the benefit is of doing this vinyl stuff, versus an a real paint job?

AMGAffalterbach

It's reversible, it protects the actual paint underneath, and you don't have the hassle/expense of having to sand and stip old paint off to start with a new color. It is just a film with adhesive you place over the car and it is also a cheap way to do matte colors. $2000 is expensive, but I have a feeling my local shop would charge twice that to strip the car down and repaint from primer up.

willy_manilly

Does anybody have any photos of a Matte Black, or Matte White?

I'm considering doing my car over in either of those colours, just not sure as yet.

victorylap

Very, very nice! I agree with the super-white (bluish hue) bulb....looks great! Where can I get the same bulb?

AMGAffalterbach

I believe he has HIDs (6000k is what you'd want) and the parking lights are a bulb from the dealer he said.

txboifrozt

You can get the bluish parking bulbs off of Ebay.

AMGAffalterbach

Link? Is it these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ERROR-FREE-M...-/220756667631
http://www.ebay.com/itm/White-Merced...-/130509801577

I assume there is no downside to installing these, as they aren't the low beams or the high beams so LEDs should be fine here regardless of focal length.

txboifrozt

Yes those will work just fine with no error. Mine are more of a darker deep blue and a regular 2825 bulb and not LED though i will switch to LED as they produce more light.

E63//AMG

I'd like to see how it looks with the doors open. Door jambs and such.

AMGAffalterbach

For $2000 I think it would be pretty clean.

mhass350

Looks slick! Love the white with the black panoroof and black accents.


Checkout the MBworld Vendor, AZN Optics. I bought a set of 5k LED parking lights for $20 or so. He has a thread in the W211 or section regarding them. As for HiDs, I went with DDM Tunings kit for $100 also in 5k --- there are many options out there to consider (I think there is even a sticky on it)


Anyway, back to the OPs thread

AMGAffalterbach

Yeah we were getting a bit off topic but thank you for that. I was looking into the DDM tuning kit as well.