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      08-23-2019, 11:05 AM   #89
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...is BMW going for the KITT theme next. The bars will light up one at a time, left to right, and right to left, when you lock and unlock the car. ...
Ah...this can get even better. How about designing the illuminated kidney grills to blink/flash with the turn indicators. It could be like the old Mercury Cougar's rear tail lights that flashed sequentially...except these would be seen by oncoming traffic.

I'd like to see the other car manufactures catch up since they only have turn indicators on their side view mirrors.


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      08-25-2019, 07:07 AM   #90
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Can we do backlit roundels next?
Shhh.... Don't give them more ideas. Lol!
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Well, it seems that after they dropped the angel eyes now they need to illuminate the grill to make sure people won't think is a Corolla....
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Sorry but...
I do like the big grills.
I do like the idea to illuminate them.
Both look great in my opinion.

(I am not a gangster nor an asian, though.)
It's gotta be just you and me on this entire forum that like those.
I think they look awesome and have nothing to do with cheap.

Really can't get it why so much hate on them, other than the price being nonsense / people being jealous not having this on their car by default.

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Do you say the same of the car's interior lightning? Is that tacky too? Why don't you just strip it all out and put an E27 lightbulb in it, just below the mirror? Non LED of course, make it 100W.

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It's gotta be just you and me on this entire forum that like those.
I think they look awesome and have nothing to do with cheap.

Really can't get it why so much hate on them, other than the price being nonsense / people being jealous not having this on their car by default.

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Do you say the same of the car's interior lightning? Is that tacky too? Why don't you just strip it all out and put an E27 lightbulb in it, just below the mirror? Non LED of course, make it 100W.
Different strokes for different folks. I am not a fan of the illuminated star (MB) nor the illuminated grill (BMW) but that is why there are so many different variables out there.
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True that, everyone with their own taste, but what was weird for me to see was that all (-1) thread posters are hating this retrofit, in 5 pages, while there's 3 pages of people here https://g30.bimmerpost.com/forums/sh....php?t=1548541 doing the "bowers and wilkins" retrofit just for the lights, while actually *DOWNGRADING* sound quality for it.

This "iconic glow" retrofit is, in the end, just something for people that like LED lightning, and unlike other "upgrades" (like the one in the above linked thread), it doesn't actually affect performance in any kind (pls don't tell me the extra 100g of weight are a problem)
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