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Old Sep 26, 2016 | 02:46 PM
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Remove grill on GLE

Does anyone know how to pull / remove the grill off a gle (gle63)?

It looks like a bunch of clips. But how do you do it without snapping them all?

Reason I ask is that I'd like to take it off to plastidip and vinyl the distronic star.

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Old Nov 30, 2016 | 11:32 AM
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Has anyone removed their grill successfully? I want to swap mine out for a black one. I don't have the 360 cam and I am curious about this special tool.
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Old Dec 1, 2016 | 03:37 PM
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Not sure I'm reading this correct, but it's just the star you want to plastidip? if so it' comes out on it's own turn it counter clockwise, otherwise yeah the grill is a pain in the *** to get off.
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Old Dec 2, 2016 | 11:16 AM
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I want to remove the whole thing and put on the grill from the night package
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Old May 15, 2017 | 07:01 PM
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Thought I would give this another try... has anyone done this yet?
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Old May 16, 2017 | 02:41 AM
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My shop had to pull the front bumper to remove the grill
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GT grille change for GLE coupe 2017

My guy did this grille change in an hour flat with 360 camera still perfect and in tact, if you need a Mercedes specialist, then Chris at A1 Mercs in Leyton, London, is your guy,

I was worried after seeing these posts in the forum surrounding difficulties with calibrating and changing the grille, he said leave it with me,

and low and behold , he found this light work

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Original grille

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