[remmib]

Originally Posted by weeble

Loving all these pics! Really fancy adding these to my car, are they easy enough to fit yourself?

Cheers

Yes, very easy to fit yourself.

[Dutch335is]

matte looks better i think

[jocamryn]

painted looks nice.

[ernie2409]

Anyone rocking any of these on a motego blue e90? I hate the chrome, but not sure where to go. I like the painted outer with either black or chome inner, but just cant decide. Opinions?

[Boosted John]

Originally Posted by pooskay

why are you capitalizing every word?

so that you would ask this very question....

[bavarian19]

Gloss all the way

[Quisp]

Gloss is my preference. The matte ones i have seen in person looked like they were weathered by the sun and not intentionally made matte.

[Nowak]

I have a Jet Black e90 328 and I am trying to decide between gloss black or matte black. Any suggestions?

[TRY M3]

Originally Posted by Nowak

I have a Jet Black e90 328 and I am trying to decide between gloss black or matte black. Any suggestions?

Lol read this thread. 6 pages of suggestions.

[Isaiah5411]

Does anyone make a grill with chrome kidneys and gloss black slats?

[Quisp]

Dont forget that you have another choice...black chrome

[joepitch]

Honestly i love this thread. Most of it the reaction of people from people with mat grills approving gloss. When i first got my bmw i came to this site and my "first mod" was going to get a new grill. I was a little confused at first why all of you are swapping out a the sexy stock grills for the cheap looking plastic grills. I knew i wanted gloss, but i couldn't find it, i herd of the one from tischler but thats 100$ and quite pricey for a grill. I ended up deciding on making my grill like the lci (outer gloss, inner stock). But its great to see how some people bias to matt black change the opinion. Now if they would make some nice gloss black rims for the e92 i would be all over them.

[Quisp]

there are a lot of black rims out there.

If you get Gloss Black, you will find that some are just the factory silver ones painted black. This doesnt sound like a big deal but if they werent prepped correctly before painting they will chip, blister and flake. The metal finish is not very receptive to paint. It doesnt stick to it very well. (had it happen wirth my first set) At first not such a big deal, little touch up spot here or there, but when it starts to blister and flake you are looking at areas the size of a penny or nickel.

[hiropowers]

After checking out a few threads like this one I'm going to go carbon fiber for grill and front splitters. I recon they will look hot as is. Adding a pic I found for comparison to gloss v's matte:

[BRAISKI]

I am still thinking of getting the Matte black but need to wait since not much places have it yet for the '11

[BMW4Life2112]

I just want to throw this out there because it may help someone choose between matte and gloss black kidney's. So, I have a pre-lci e90 and decided to get the BMW Performance Gloss Black Grilles (because I thought the gloss black grilles looked the best).

The first set I bought and installed I noticed were all scratched up and had one of the clips broken. So, I returned them to my local dealership. They had been bought and returned by someone else before me.

The next set of BMW Performance Gloss Kidney's I got looked great except for the trim pieces on the hood. I noticed that when the car was in the sunlight there were two yellow colored spots on both of the gloss black trim pieces.

See the picture below. I just couldn't handle looking at my gloss black grilles and seeing those two yellow spots. The spots looked like the shine you get off a spilled puddle of oil. I will also note that I looked at 4 other sets of trim pieces at my local dealership and they all seemed to do the same thing when looked at out in the sun. The fact that it's almost always sunny where I live in San Diego also weighed heavily into my decision to return the grilles and the trim pieces.

Note: the grilles did NOT have the same problem as the trim pieces, although it could have been because they were not directly angled towards the sun (Really wish the pre-lci e90's didn't have those ugly trim pieces).

Conclusin: I returned the BMW Performance grilles and ordered the Jlevisw matte black grilles. Haven't recieved them yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing nothing but flat black!

[laughter95]

just got matte black grills from jllevisw. the things look good, pretty solid. will post pictures once installed.

[Cheeto]

Originally Posted by ohaywood

I had matte black and I'm waiting for my gloss BMW Performance grills from Tischer.. I will post comparison pictures in a few days to settle this haha.

Did this ever happen? i would love to see the side-by-side pic.

[E90335Justin]

Originally Posted by AlpineCloud9

don't think there is any picture of black chrome grilles on the forum yet. so there you go, that how it looks on my car right now.

the contrast looks great with monaco blue.

*sorry about the orientation of picture...

omg thank you haha. i was looking for black gloss rims for my Monaco Blue, but these black chrome grilles really look great haha

[E90335Justin]

anyone have a matte black vs gloss black grille for Monaco Blue E90 Lci/Pre-Lci?

[Mpower77i]

Originally Posted by E90335Justin

anyone have a matte black vs gloss black grille for Monaco Blue E90 Lci/Pre-Lci?

Im in the same situation. Monaco pre- LCi

[getby25]

Originally Posted by E90335Justin

anyone have a matte black vs gloss black grille for Monaco Blue E90 Lci/Pre-Lci?

i am in the same situation

my car is e90 monaco blue

btw i am thinking CF grill too