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Old Aug 9, 2019 | 08:52 PM
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Anything I can do to sexy it up?

Exterior is a little boring. Thinking of a roof spoiler. Anything else? Flames on the sides? Lol


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Old Aug 9, 2019 | 09:04 PM
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Some crazy graphics. Pictures of animals. Pictures of things you like, all can be done with wraps.
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Old Aug 9, 2019 | 09:20 PM
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Consider some new wheels? Wrap the chrome and plastic bits?
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 06:05 AM
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New wheels for sure will help
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 06:21 AM
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 08:23 AM
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I’ll let the park know
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 01:57 PM
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have the black, trim painted white. Look at pics on this site and you will see some that have the factory white trim. I had the black trim painted on my ML. Also have the chrome door handle inserts. I put them on my ML not sure if the new GLE have that option.

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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 02:00 PM
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Exterior is a little boring. Thinking of a roof spoiler. Anything else? Flames on the sides? Lol
Best would have been the AMG Exterior package, but a little late now. The aftermarket should have some products soon.
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 07:24 PM
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I think the 21" wheels with the standard exterior look reeeeeeal nice...
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Painting the rocker white gives it the look of am AMG exterior package. You could just have them wrapped in white instead of painting them.
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Old Aug 10, 2019 | 11:57 PM
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I would give it the AMG look or the "Panda" treatment (black and white)

Chrome delete the windows trim - Have them wrapped in black (very similar to the AMG night package).
Wrap/Paint the rockers - white.
Wheels - Those look like 19 - 20? I would powder coat or paint them glossy black - You could even plastic dip them (cheapest and easiest) black or even gun metal.
Replace - Badge in the rear with all black ones.
Get front windows tinted to match the rear windows pane.
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Old Aug 12, 2019 | 09:39 AM
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Get a Jurassic Park wrap for your car.



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Old Sep 4, 2019 | 09:25 PM
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Appointment for front windows tinted next Thursday. Specialty shop says we have lots of ideas to make this look like a beast. More to come.
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Old Sep 5, 2019 | 12:52 AM
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As stated by others.

Paint the black trim body color
lower it some just 1”
larger wheels. No chrome!!!
gloss black vinyl wrap chrome trim.
no plasti dip on car. It’s good stuff but this is a luxury car. The plasti duo gloss still isn’t that great.

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i do all my cars in like styles



The lower plastics on my Volt were unpainted all around and had them painted. Looks totally diff vs stock and makes it look so much better. I did plasti sip the wheels on my Volt and they are good and has lasted but felt ok since not luxury type car and is my daily. They are rather ugly stock.






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Originally Posted by black06c230
As stated by others.

Paint the black trim body color
lower it some just 1”
larger wheels. No chrome!!!
gloss black vinyl wrap chrome trim.
no plasti dip on car. It’s good stuff but this is a luxury car. The plasti duo gloss still isn’t that great.

Panda
https://mbworld.org/forums/gl-class-...ld-thread.html

i do all my cars in like styles


The lower plastics on my Volt were unpainted all around and had them painted. Looks totally diff vs stock and makes it look so much better. I did plasti sip the wheels on my Volt and they are good and has lasted but felt ok since not luxury type car and is my daily. They are rather ugly stock.




Had to post because I saw you have a subie...lol Here's my STi. Had it new since 05'. Don't think I'll ever get rid of it and keep modding it here and there just for fun. I love the new cars but there is something very raw about driving this that new stuff lacks.




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Old Sep 11, 2019 | 02:29 PM
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AMG Exterior / Night Packages additional customizations

Our SUV has the optional AMG Line Exterior package (Gloss Black exterior accents, 20-inch AMG twin 5-spoke wheels w/black accents, AMG body styling) and the AMG Night package.
Unfortunately, they left many more to be black-desirable (MB star and side bars at the front grill, all 4 door handles, all chrome MB star and letters and the 2 exhaust openings at the rear.)
I'd love to know if anyone has done these.

Items were identified to be replaced from original Chrome to Black, to be consistent with AMG Exterior / Night Packages: all MB Star emblems, all door handles, all exhaust openings, all chrome emblems
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Old Sep 11, 2019 | 03:30 PM
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Our SUV has the optional AMG Line Exterior package (Gloss Black exterior accents, 20-inch AMG twin 5-spoke wheels w/black accents, AMG body styling) and the AMG Night package.
Unfortunately, they left many more to be black-desirable (MB star and side bars at the front grill, all 4 door handles, all chrome MB star and letters and the 2 exhaust openings at the rear.)
I'd love to know if anyone has done these.

Items were identified to be replaced from original Chrome to Black, to be consistent with AMG Exterior / Night Packages: all MB Star emblems, all door handles, all exhaust openings, all chrome emblems
The back is screaming debadge me...lol. I did that to our w211. Looks super clean now. If you don't want to debadge you could get some one to paint them or flat out replace them with black. The rest you could have wrapped or also get it painted black

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Old Sep 11, 2019 | 04:09 PM
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Originally Posted by NewShockerGuy
The back is screaming debadge me...lol. I did that to our w211. Looks super clean now. If you don't want to debadge you could get some one to paint them or flat out replace them with black. The rest you could have wrapped or also get it painted black

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Old Sep 12, 2019 | 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer
Exterior is a little boring. Thinking of a roof spoiler. Anything else? Flames on the sides? Lol.
You could replace the lower front fascia trim with that from the GLS - I'm guessing it would fit. BTW, "sexy" is an adjective, not a verb!


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Old Sep 12, 2019 | 06:11 PM
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Got the front windows tinted today. It’s a start.

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That looks sharp. Did your MB dealer do the work? How much does that run?
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Old Sep 13, 2019 | 12:57 AM
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I had it done at a shop that specializes in that it was $180
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Old Sep 13, 2019 | 07:34 AM
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It's just not a sexy vehicle, therefor impossible to make sexy.
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Old Sep 13, 2019 | 09:20 AM
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It's just not a sexy vehicle, therefor impossible to make sexy.
Hyperion-Don't be A$$hole. This is not a high school chat room. If you need someone to belittle, I suggest you post messages to the California State group of taxes & economic wisdom. (They need your help)

I like that guitarplayer is soliciting ides on ways to modify his GLE to make it stand out in the crowd. We (GLE owners) are getting a lot of good ideas from people's legitimate responses.
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Old Sep 13, 2019 | 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by guitarplayer
Got the front windows tinted today. It’s a start.
I like the look but that tint is probably illegal in most States. I had our Audi tinted but went with a lighter Ceramic film so that there is a slight difference between front and rear. The Tint shop said that there is a higher risk of getting a ticket when it’s so obvious. It would probably be rare that Police would actually write a ticket.
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