This photo is from a fellow NAM's car (Rally@StanceDesign) but I believe he has been inactive for a while. Essentially I would like my front to look like his.

I believe the bumper is the aerokit bumper. But I can't seem to find what grille that is...? I know I can get the aerokit grille but I really like the black slats vs. the honeycomb as well as the chrome which gets replaced by black as well.

Can anyone identify the parts?

 

Regular R53 bumper & 04-06 facelift R53 grilles that were blacked out. Vinyl'd or painted.

 

Thanks! I have an 05 r50 and my grille seems to be the same. Looks like he took the chrome bars off and blacked the existing red ones. Might do that soon.
As for the bumper, Ill keep it as is until I get a look at it. Maybe it will look good.

 

Don't take the chrome slats off. Just vinyl them black. Keep it reversible. The non-S grille had more slats than the R53's, I believe.

 

Owners have blacked out their grill slats with paint, vinyl, or PlastiDip. You can do that directly on the car (no need to remove anything). There's an entire thread somewhere here devoted to the topic.

MINI also sells the grill and lower single slat (it was standard on the MINI One model in Europe). It is what I have on mine.


Parts info in my gallery (the prices have gone up quite a bit since 2005).

 

Thanks! I might go to my mini dealer sometime this week. Those look great!
Ill keep everyone posted

 

You may want to ask if there are any issues going from the "honeycomb" (aero grill) to the slats. There have been many articles here on how to go the other way. The difficulty was with the part that goes on the bumper. Parts had to be altered to get that to fit. So now if you are reversing the process, it would be good to know if the bumper had to be altered or if the aero grill part did to make sure that the slats can go on without any problems.

If I remember correctly, the top part was easy as it just bolted on with no alterations.

 

The OP is starting from a chrome slat grill.

 

Thank you for your concern. I am, however, not coming from the honeycomb. I currently have chrome on chrome but want to black it out. BUT instead of having the honeycomb which everyone has I would like the black slats and chrome outline exactly like the photos above!

 

and to answer for the honeycomb to slat, i did the conversion from slat to honeycomb, and there was nothing permanent that i had done, minus removing double sided tape. the plastic bolts were the same, and everything was clipped in

minus giving one of the chrome pieces away to my buddy, i could go back to the slate no prob

and to the OP just plasti dip it, itll be alot cheaper than going to the dealership, black plasti dip can be found at walmart or homedepot/lowes, just clean, mask off, and spray 5-10 light coats

 

So I decided to do it. Used plasti-dip. First time and honestly that stuff is amazing. FYI if black is out look for their camo-black its the same thing just branded as camo and a few bucks more.

I removed my top grille. My car only had 6bolts...thank god. Wasn't too hard but frustrating. The screws are rubbery plastic and can strip easily...just be careful.

Masked it all off and painted 4 coats. I let it dry maybe 10-15 minutes. It was sunny and dried really fast.

I didn't want to take the bumper for the lower grille so I just masked my car off. It worked. Looks good.

Finish is nice. Black and matte. Very similar texture to the plastic trimming. Easily peel-able. And relatively easy to get clean lines, just have an exact nice on hand.