Dear all, one of the things I'm not keen on with my facelift Ipanema Sand L322 is the blingy cheesegrater grill.

However some cars I've seen online appear to look better (to my eyes anyway) by being darker. Has someone like myself got the rattlecan out, or are there indeed darker non-bling grilles to be had?

I don't know if its an optical illusion created by the darker grilles but some of the headlights seem darker inside as well, witness;

For instance this is my style, light grey and bling;

your headlights have grey insert surrounds, the late 2011 and 2012 had black ..

grills can be bought of ebay and powerefuluk...

i changed my westie's grill from standard to black..

Ah , so if I want the darker look I need to change the lamps as well might wait and see if I shange to a later L322 model in the near future. I'm only days in and eyeing up supercharged cars already

I also was not a fan of the original grille.
Also the VSE didn’t come with the silver splitter bar or spot lamp surrounds, but 10 minutes with a paintbrush changed that.
I opted for grey grille sides to match the headlight inners, but liked the shiny black grille with chrome surround.
Each to their own , plenty of mix and match options

Certainly seems like it! I'm going the other way painting my silver bar and fogs grey!

I also quite fancy the simpler "3 blade" side gills, but will keep the originals of course for the next person, as you say one mans meat etc.