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      06-30-2021, 01:38 PM   #23
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So my 330i looks generic and cheap. Cheers.
My wording was overly harsh, your 330 was obviously not cheap. In my opinion, gloss black plastic looks cheap.

I don’t understand why someone would remove trim unique to a model on the upper end of the range to replace it with trim that can be from any model, makes little sense to me.
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To me, and yes just my opinion, gloss black works with dark colours.
Mine's grey and the gloss black shadowline works IMO.
Agreed. I had a mineral grey 330i MSport with the shadowline trims and it looked stunning. I actually much preferred the bi-colour wheels they have with the Pro pack (or at least did, last year) than all-black alloys. Just as an aside: with the M340i, the one thing that distinguishes it from all the other MSport 3s at any distance beyond about 50 yards is the cerium trims (that is, especially the grill). If you black out the grill, it's hard to tell it's a 40i coming towards you until it gets close enough to notice the cross-hatched/mesh effect on the nose. That's not to say that a dravit grey 40i with the shadowline treatment isn't beautiful; but it's a consideration, if one cares about visual distinctions between models.
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To me, and yes just my opinion, gloss black works with dark colours.
Mine's grey and the gloss black shadowline works IMO.
Agreed. I had a mineral grey 330i MSport with the shadowline trims and it looked stunning. I actually much preferred the bi-colour wheels they have with the Pro pack (or at least did, last year) than all-black alloys. Just as an aside: with the M340i, the one thing that distinguishes it from all the other MSport 3s at any distance beyond about 50 yards is the cerium trims (that is, especially the grill). If you black out the grill, it's hard to tell it's a 40i coming towards you until it gets close enough to notice the cross-hatched/mesh effect on the nose. That's not to say that a dravit grey 40i with the shadowline treatment isn't beautiful; but it's a consideration, if one cares about visual distinctions between models.
The cerium is awful, just makes the car look drab.
They should have stuck to either silver or black in my opinion. I love the black wheels and trim but would have considered bi-colour wheels or silver.
Each to their own I guess. If we all had that same that would be boring.
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My wording was overly harsh, your 330 was obviously not cheap. In my opinion, gloss black plastic looks cheap.

I don’t understand why someone would remove trim unique to a model on the upper end of the range to replace it with trim that can be from any model, makes little sense to me.

Have to agree with you, but only with the grille. It looks all a bit Halfords stick on to me. But hey, as we all say, ETTO and I'm happy enough with my drab looking motor. Then again, I quite like the big M3/M4 gaping grille, which not everyone does.
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Not a fan of the black grilles or wheels as I think they make the grille look big and the wheels small.

I was very pleasantly surprised how well the celerium bits work on my Mineral white m340 and it does make it stand out.
Everyone's car is their own though so might as well do what makes you happy before the days of us all driving suped up milk floats arrives..
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      07-01-2021, 08:31 AM   #28
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Well with the car in Black Sapphire I feel the shadowline works really well, I've not blacked out the badges or made any changes other than what was on the car from factory (as honestly what's the point in even having them if you can't even see them on a black car )





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Well with the car in Black Sapphire I feel the shadowline works really well, I've not blacked out the badges or made any changes other than what was on the car from factory (as honestly what's the point in even having them if you can't even see them on a black car )





Nice - it certainly looks the part! Did it come with black exhaust tips? / Have you swapped to these?

Would be great to see the rear of the car. My next mod will be black exhaust tips but contemplating leaving the badge and side mirrors in cerium now as my wheels are cerium anyway.
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Nice - it certainly looks the part! Did it come with black exhaust tips? / Have you swapped to these?

Would be great to see the rear of the car. My next mod will be black exhaust tips but contemplating leaving the badge and side mirrors in cerium now as my wheels are cerium anyway.

Afaik it's the standard black metal(?) colour. When I cleaned her a few days ago I used some metal polish to clean it off so not sure how much was grime and how much was actual paint/etc . I don't have any pictures from then but I do have a couple (not so good) ones from a past cleaning session. HTH?





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My friend's vs mine that will be blacked out in coming months
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Afaik it's the standard black metal(?) colour. When I cleaned her a few days ago I used some metal polish to clean it off so not sure how much was grime and how much was actual paint/etc . I don't have any pictures from then but I do have a couple (not so good) ones from a past cleaning session. HTH?





Thanks - looks like these are the standard ones (not the black ones but it's hard to tell exactly).

I'm still undecided what to do. The frontend is now blacked out, just need to decide whether I want to do tips + black badge now.

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Thanks - looks like these are the standard ones (not the black ones but it's hard to tell exactly).

I'm still undecided what to do. The frontend is now blacked out, just need to decide whether I want to do tips + black badge now.

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Maybe try a PS mockup to help give a bit of insight?
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      07-06-2021, 01:20 PM   #35
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Almost totally 'murdered out' here.

BSM Shadowline 330i with:

Black Vernasca interior

Carbon fin
Carbon MP Spoiler
Carbon MP Diffuser
Carbon MP Tailpipes
Carbon Mirror Caps
Gloss black MP side skirts
Gloss black MP-like front lip

M791 bi colour for summer
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Anyone done a black M340i badge but with the stock exhaust tips? Thinking I might do the badge first.
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Anyone done a black M340i badge but with the stock exhaust tips? Thinking I might do the badge first.
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You know you're going to do both so just do it!
Haha - done! Black badge ordered - looking forward to getting it fitted. Then will look at exhaust tips, still not sure how black will look against the grey diffuser yet but will see.
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Have switched the cerium grille, front markers, exhaust tail pipes and rear diffuser to gloss black and glad I did so. IMO the gloss black makes for a meaner look - the cerium was a bit too bling for me. Mirror caps are still cerium but will be switched out to carbon soon.
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Now I've lived with the car for a couple of months..... the front markers and exhaust might be done, but not the grille. And to me, I worked out in my own mind/opinion what the problem with it is. Happened when I saw the blacked out grille on the M240i. There, the grille stops under the bonnet, but with the G20/21 it comes so much higher. Of course it stops under the bonnet, but I hope you know what I mean if I say it sits on top of the leading edge.

Can't find a gloss black picture of the G42, but that smaller grille in gloss black looks good.
https://www.tuningblog.eu/wp-content...-Tuning-43.jpg

If I changed the front markers to black, but kept the celium grille, would that look odd?
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Does anyone fancy selling their old celirium m340 grilles? I still havnt got mine fixed yet and can't yet stomach paying the local dealer silly money.

PM if you want to get rid
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