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X3


I'd go with the Pure Silver verses the black on that color combo.

The car looks great already.

 

x4

 

so do the black version and then keep my fingers of my car ? ? ?

 

Have fun, I just finished my first headlight last night, such a pain in the ***, but now that I know what to do and where the screws are, and how it's all put together, the second one should go much faster. Hope to have it all finished by Friday night.

 

First one done & installed, will post some better pics when second one is in.

 

All done!

 

This looks especially nice with the combination of silver, black, and chrome highlights on your MINI. It really fits the overall color scheme and motif of the car very well. It gives it a very upscale, classy look.

Nice job...I like it a lot!

 

Great job. The only joey mod I can remember where the chrome headlight rings work. The black rear view mirrors and the headlights match particularly well on your car.

 

Jogs Diosdado's memory

I think it works pretty well here too, but I am biased.

 

-Jahmills,

How did you get them so dark? Usually you can see the chrome of the reflector pieces.

Looking good

 

A big +1

 

Rally, I still have the Lamin-X tint on there, I thought since it was on there already I would just leave it for now, will probably remove it in the Spring once it warms up. It does kind of hurt the light output.

 

Ahh okay....i was wondering if there was some kind of tint on there

 

Gnatster, I'm big fan of your car. There's a little less contrast with the silver car that I really like. It's just a matter of taste, no offense meant (I'm trying to completely dechrome my black car, a lot of people would say that I need more contrast). For what it's worth, your car is the only one I can remember that I really think the M7 grills work.... (foot in mouth again)

 

Uhh....glnr17's M7 grills look great too.

 

Thanks, there are some tricks to getting the M7 grills looking right. When you look at most MINI's using those grills you see to much off the systems behind the grills. Plus most don't bother to paint certain areas

Look at the hood support structure behind the upper grill. The beam in the center and all the area behind the grill were painted a matte black. So many others still have the body color showing at that location.

For the middle grill we cut out the center of opening. The core support has holes in it, why not let more air flow onto the radiator. That area of the core support was painted matte black as was the area in the bumper where the middle grill covers. Again, many do not paint there an the body color shows through. The radiator also needs to be covered either a black mesh screen material or the very nice Bug Guard for Beemers product work well. Also take the time to give the AC lines and other silver bits a quick light coat with a rattle can matte black. The image below is how it looked before the cover went on. After test fitting then entire center section of the support was sprayed matte black. I think it's this attention to detail that makes the grill work well.



Out of the box the fit of the grills is ok but not as close as I liked. We spent considerable time with a small rubber mallet and a leather bean bag working the edges flush with the opening and preserving the curvature found in the various openings. The middle grill requires spacers to be made and slipped over the posts to prevent it from sliding back. The posts are designed to use a press fit clip but we removed the coating from the ends of the post to thread them with a die. Washers and nuts hold it in place. If M7 was to ever have the grill redesigned I's ask that they use 6 posts instead of 3. The lower grill is the most interesting of the lot to install. Here again there are only 3 tabs. It takes quite a bit of finagling and 5 hands to install these with an even gap all the way around. A few hidden washers used as spacers and them painted black took care of that chore.

 

Gnatster, no wonder the M7 grills look great on your car. I always thought that seeing the radiator through the grills made it look cheap. I have to rethink adding these grills to my car now.

 

Hi from Scotland!

I'm a member of New Mini Scotland...the internet forum for the New BMW Mini in Scotland,

Hope you don't mind guys?....but I have posted a thread on NMS about this mod...and linked a few pics...

You can view it here:

http://newmini.thinkbiggar.net/forum...d=1#post156154

Link to the site here:

http://newmini.thinkbiggar.net/

You may have to become a member to view the posts...I'm not sure.

Happy Holidays!

mark

 

me and my mate did the joey mod... REAL PAIN IN THE *** but the results are COOOOOL















and thanks for the idea!!

Coen

 

Hey coen

Could I see more pictures of the cooper's hood from far away?

 

sure no prob..

SORRY FOR OT!!






Cheers

Coen

 

I like the Joey Mod on the Coop, looks nice with the PS surrounds. Can't say the same for the S, not feeling the black surrounds...

 

silver rings weren't ready yet... so I refitted the black rings... next week the PS ring will be installed

Cheers

Coen

ps. Not DISliking the black rings tho....

 

Anyone in the UCLA area willing to help a fellow MINI owner with this, but in red, very much like the Honda Fit?