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What are you talking about, that nude guy received them almost a week ago and said he'd post pictures "later that day" but all he showed us was the packaging...smh
My order says out for delivery so as soon as receive them, I will doing the 1-minute install and taking pictures today.
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Ok so I ordered them on March 2, just received them in the mail today and with no hesitation I installed them. A genius at my dealership told me that to remove the grilles, all you need to do is pull as hard as you can and they will come right out. Skeptical of this brute force method, I told him to show me and he did it on a loaner car right in front of me, and lo and behold the clips on the original grilles broke. He said that he'd done it about 50 times and that's never happened before, but still I didn't want to risk damaging my original grilles or warp the bumper. So instead I took the slow route (which really only takes about 15 minutes) and followed these instructions for the F30 which were close enough.
Now enough about that and onto the part that matters...the product. The old adage 'you get what you pay for' usually holds true, and well let me tell you that it's easy to spot out that these are not manufactured by BMW. There were several imperfections on the edge of the plastic, flakes left over from the molding procedure, more or less. Maybe I got unlucky so I guess we'll have to wait and see until more of you guys receive them to see if it's an isolated issue or if these Taiwanese manufactures are subpar. I wasn't about to install them in that condition on my perfect car, so I had to sand them down to make them disappear...whatever, life goes on. After installing them I can truly say, it changes the entire look of the front of the car. The gloss black grilles look perfect with the shadowline trim and my gloss black wheels. So, here is my review: Shipping Time - 10/10 Packaging - 10/10 Craftsmanship - 8/10 Gloss Finish - 10/10 Fitment - 10/10 Price - 10/10 Overall a great product, and I am happy to be able to say that I was one of the first one to be able to get them on my F22, yeaa we all know that pertplus and his IND customized car was really the first 2 series to have dual slats...but you get the point. Now go and enjoy the pictures. I am probably going to install the M tri-color decals that I had on my original grilles on these new dual slat grilles but I didn't have enough of them, so I will get around to doing that later next week...full photoshoot will come once I get a chance to wash and detail the car.
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Looks fantastic! Going to place an order after work.
Thank you so much for your time to take pictures and give us your feedback!
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Well I am getting a little annoyed at this point... I ordered the grilles last Friday, and was told they would be out this Monday. I emailed Brian, from JBSPEED, on Tuesday to ask if they had shipped, because I still had not received tracking. He said he will ship later that day. Now it's Wednesday and I still have not received a shipping confirmation or tracking. C'mon man...
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Just ordered a set!
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Autotecknic also sells it here
http://www.autotecknic.com/product_p/bm-0172-ds-gb.htm Don't see any drastic difference at all so will just keep my performance one. |
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Mine took forveer to ship over the the US but they arrived to my local post office today so I imagine tomorrow I'll get then.
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