New black optics grille and fog light trim
04-15-2010, 01:52 AM
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Awsome. Much better than the people that feel the need to change the basic look of the grille. It was made the way it was for a reason and you just proved that you don't screw with perfection (just tweak it a tiny bit) and it will be still look sophisticated, yet slightly more aggressive. Good job.
04-15-2010, 05:06 PM
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Package was offered to me at 1200 dollars. Issue is they stop the line to remove your car to change to the black optics. They charge 1700 dollars to stop and start the assembly line so i didn't do it. Issue i had was they stop the line for breaks and stop and starting shifts and just make another 1700 per car even if 5 cars are being pulled at the same time. Does look nice and aggressive.
04-15-2010, 07:59 PM
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I have always been a little bothered by the mismatching fog light grill surrounds on the S5 as I am a big fan of symmetry. Its interesting that the package gives you a closed grill surround for the left fog light trim rather than an open grill surround for the right fog light trim, which would then match the main grill. Do you know if there is a particular reason for that or am I the only one that thinks the open grill fog light surrounds would look better.
04-15-2010, 08:01 PM
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04-15-2010, 08:02 PM
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04-15-2010, 10:41 PM
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I mean that my S5 Cab (and I assumed your coupe unless the different engine has something to do with it) has a functional grille (i.e open slats) around the driver side fog lamp, but a closed non-functional grille around the passenger side fog lamp. You now have 2 nonfunctional decorative fog lamp grill surrounds so i assumed you replaced the open functional version on the driver side.
04-16-2010, 02:10 PM
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I mean that my S5 Cab (and I assumed your coupe unless the different engine has something to do with it) has a functional grille (i.e open slats) around the driver side fog lamp, but a closed non-functional grille around the passenger side fog lamp. You now have 2 nonfunctional decorative fog lamp grill surrounds so i assumed you replaced the open functional version on the driver side.
06-16-2010, 08:04 AM
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Gotta love the black optics grille. Since I'm getting my front end redone, thanks to the GD quarry trucks unsecured load, I might just ask the shop to pop one of these on instead of the OEM grey one.