I've got a week 6 MCS on order. I am placing the JCW aero front bumper on and want to retain the chrome surround on the front upper grill. The chrome attached to the bonnet will be easy enough - i will just leave it on, as it comes from the factory with the stock MCS front bumper.

The challenge will be the getting a chrome strip attached onto the lower portion of the JCW aero grill/JCW aero front bumper cover. My expectation is that the chrome strip thats on the mcs stock bumper can be swapper with the blacked out strip on the JCW aero bumper. The dealer's parts "guru" says its not possible... says the shape of the lower "blacked out" grill strip on the JCW aero bumper is different that the shape of lower chrome grill surround on the stock MCS bumper.

Anyone out there familiar with this kind of switch? Its seems unlikely that mini would make these parts different. Having had success putting an r53 front bumper and side skirts on my r50 i find it suprising that the r56 would not follow the same highly interchangable design.