Body coloured kidney grille

[smithy318i]

chav or not ?

Discuss...

[gazza]

chrome or black, coloured is chav and looks cheap and 80s custom style ie fur on the dash and jack the back wheels up

[grantfk10]

Chav.
Although my grill is no longer chrome as in sig pic, it's now black!

[Kos]

its a nice touch imo, looks good with the eye brows.

[smithy318i]

its a nice touch imo, looks good with the eye brows.

my thought exactly. but i would probably photoshop it first.

[Kos]

its a nice touch imo, looks good with the eye brows.

my thought exactly. but i would probably photoshop it first.

eye brows on a light coloured car with a chrome or black grill looks odd, colour code is the way to go.

have a look in the gallery or members e30's for them

[316eyes]

My car is Vulcan grey and when it's reprayed the bumpers etc are going to be colour coded but the centre grille will remain chrome. It's a BMW statement thing.
Was considering having colour coded trim instead of dechrome.
Yes/No?

[Kos]

the darker colours wrok best with eye brows, dolphin grey, diamond black macau blue.
the reds whites look odd unles you colour code the kidneys too

[316eyes]

the darker colours wrok best with eye brows, dolphin grey, diamond black macau blue.
the reds whites look odd unles you colour code the kidneys too

I've just sprayed 4 headlamp rims satin black because I thought it would look odd with grey/chrome showing, even though they don't show that much.

[oguz327]

I've just sprayed 4 headlamp rims satin black because I thought it would look odd with grey/chrome showing, even though they don't show that much.[/quote]

How does that look? do you hav any pics?

[scottybeemer]

get a spare one ,and try it,if you dont like it bin it

[Simon]

Chav!

[Splondike]

Had all three on mine:

Red (Chav) when I bought her...


Immediately I changed to black...


Then went back to Chrome....

[Dan318-is]

it has to be black, looks much better. especially when you have dechrome guttering and nothing else on the car is chrome! it looks more in place black than it does chrome imho

[Stevin]

I say black

[Simon]

Then went back to Chrome....

[Gouki]

chrome, has to be the trademark chrome, its the distintive look you get from an E30 front end, in black just blends in with the grill, which is the whole idea but I'm not fond of that look. Call me old fashioned I guess.

[danny_j]

got to be black i reckon

[whiterhino]

black

[dark_sounds]

black imho

[smithy318i]

after looking at Splondike's 3 examples, i think im set on the black...

or chrome

no, black...


No, chrome...


DAMN.

body coloured looks council.

[Zayyan]

Yes, body-coloured is gay.

I'm undecided on black v. chrome.

Black looks good on a non-standard car but as Gouki says it's like you're trying to hide the fact it's a BMW.

I think I would have a black grille on at least one of the cars if I weren't so lazy though.

[316eyes]

I've just sprayed 4 headlamp rims satin black because I thought it would look odd with grey/chrome showing, even though they don't show that much.

How does that look? do you hav any pics?[/quote]

No pics on the car yet as I'm busy refurbing the lamps etc.

[Moofles]

i think body coloured looks ok actually, but probably not on a standard mtech2 car (mine wasn't standard tho). i think black looks a bit odd cos it's like nothings there, just looks a bit strange...

on grey cars, body coloured i think looks ok.