I have a buddy here on NAM who lives in Vegas and he wanted the JCW Carbon Fiber Aero Kit and wanted to let go of his. He sold it out to me for $100 (which is dirt cheap price, great deal). I got it and installed it my self, the dealer wanted $154 for installing, because listen to this: "its concidered 1 hour of body shop work". I'm like does that come with a free bottle of lube?" lol.....Its a pretty easy do-it-yourself install. I did it in 15min. only cause half the time i was fighting my father off from helping me, since he is big modder himdelf and love this kinda things. i totally recommend it.

 

Make yourself easy it was the same with a German dealer

 

I don't really care if I have to have the Dealer install it, I would really like to know where to get one...is it a Dealer only item at this point, or can I get it online??

 

honestly, its a OEM part, and 90% of the time its a dealer only item, unless that 10% chance someone online is selling theres like here in the market place.Just be aware the dealer will sell it to you primed white only and you have to pay for labor and when i tryed to get it quoted out at my local dealer they almost wanted $400 for it including labor fees and that to me was a total abuse in price

 

I know it sounds insane, I just paid $220 (labor only) to have Molly's JCW Grill and Chrome Line Exterior installed.

 

wow, thats high. I belong to a Mini Cooper Car club locally and we have a gentlemen in our group who's buisness is only to install, repair, mod, etc and anything (except paint work on Mini's) so he gives us good prices. Also we are sponcered by a dealership and they give us great price discounts on service and parts. $220 is kind high that was probably 1 hour and a half. Mini cooper dealers charge a flat rate per hour of labor. If you want to save money on high labor fees, a lot of "Moders" like myself (I'm OEM/JCW only), do the "do-it-yourself" with help from other modders on here who put up set-by-set mods to Minis (its risky, if you don't know what your doing, and there goes your warranty which doesn't cover much) and offer assistance with questions (if your on NAM, you have seen this for sure, goes without being said). I say go for it, My MC looks much more sporty now (My Next mod: JCW Aero Kit for MC), and totally recommend, its like a new Mini once done.

 

YBR...the $220 was for 2hrs. Labor, my SA called to make sure I wanted it done at that Rate, so yes I understand the cost in modding our MINIs!!

I do my Mods. at 6mo. intervals, so I've saved up the $$ to have what I want done when I want it...on Molly's Delivery Anniversary (Apr. 19th) and then 6mo. later.

Next for me...Wheels...Enkei EDR9 16x7 to be exact!!