Challenge: changing front trim decor elements to PURE EXPERIENCE

[AlexGT]

This modification challenge might sound "odd" for lots of you but hey, yes, I'm crazy

In my country (Guatemala) we don't get the PURE EXPERIENCE version of the F15 X5, we either get the standard or the M Sport. And as you may already guessed, I got the standard.

The standard means that the front bumper comes with "simple" trim, looks like an arrow:



And I would like to exchange those with these ones:



Is it a simple task of removing what I currently have with those others or should I also need to replace their "bases", by that I mean these:



So in conclusion I would like this:

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Is it doable? I know for most of you this may be a trivial change, for me it's something that'll make my F15 stand out from the rest (in my country at least).

Thank you for your comments fellow owners

[Nonopr01]

You need to get also the black backing. You will also need to probably remove the entire bumper to change the black grills behind the G shape trim you want to use..
I have a set of those in my office but I don't have the back grill.
Also the bottom grille which has the chrome lines you can sand those with a 800 grid sand paper and get rid of the chrome.
I have done totally opposite of what you want to do.

[Nonopr01]

Originally Posted by Nonopr01

You need to get also the black backing. You will also need to probably remove the entire bumper to change the black grills behind the G shape trim you want to use..
I have a set of those in my office but I don't have the back grill.
Also the bottom grille which has the chrome lines you can sand those with a 800 grid sand paper and get rid of the chrome.
I have done totally opposite of what you want to do.

Here

[AlexGT]

Originally Posted by Nonopr01

Here

Thanks for letting me know, that's what I thought about the black base, but, didn't know about pulling the whole bumper out to do the change!

I think it's stupid to ask if that was difficult to do?