black f10 owners, show me your wrap v brace please.

kennf10 · 09-20-2020, 10:10 AM

sorry if there's already a thread about this. im just looking for some inspiration what color to wrap my v brace for my black car.

lsturbointeg · 09-20-2020, 11:17 PM

Bronze! mine is painted tho not wrapped

kennf10 · 09-21-2020, 02:58 AM

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Bronze! mine is painted tho not wrapped

ohh thats dope man. you also went to the underhood too.

lsturbointeg · 09-21-2020, 12:38 PM

Do it right and paint them

al_breezy535i · 09-26-2020, 12:58 PM

I wrapped mine a psychedelic silver

pabusky · 09-26-2020, 01:52 PM

Just a noob question: mine has one more metal fence in front of the v brace, did you guys just throw it away? Any effect on that?

BurrNinja · 09-28-2020, 10:09 PM

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Just a noob question: mine has one more metal fence in front of the v brace, did you guys just throw it away? Any effect on that?

Any photos? I know when I upgraded to M sport front bumper I removed the plastic pieces in front of the v brace to expose it more.

pabusky · 09-29-2020, 11:02 AM

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Just a noob question: mine has one more metal fence in front of the v brace, did you guys just throw it away? Any effect on that?

Any photos? I know when I upgraded to M sport front bumper I removed the plastic pieces in front of the v brace to expose it more.

My bad. Just saw on a post on Instagram that it's plastic, that's why I'm a noob. Anyway what does it do? Just for filtering large debris going in the intercooler?

BurrNinja · 09-29-2020, 12:34 PM

Id assume its for air flow. Radiator behind it will be fine without it. I've had it off for awhile now and no change. I dont even have the air ducts going to the oil cooler when I upgraded. I seen no change in that either. You will be fine, I think its cleaner without it.

Ickdeep · 09-30-2020, 12:39 AM

I did it for my M5. I think it's pretty much the same.

nick06 · 04-01-2021, 09:48 PM

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I did it for my M5. I think it's pretty much the same.

Where'd did you buy the wrap from? Thinking of wrapping mine white.

RJV3 · 05-27-2021, 10:07 PM

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Just a noob question: mine has one more metal fence in front of the v brace, did you guys just throw it away? Any effect on that?

Any photos? I know when I upgraded to M sport front bumper I removed the plastic pieces in front of the v brace to expose it more.

My bad. Just saw on a post on Instagram that it's plastic, that's why I'm a noob. Anyway what does it do? Just for filtering large debris going in the intercooler?

What year is your car? I have a '16 LCI version and my car came with active vents. It actually looks kind of cool when the fan turn S on the vents open, then close again. The v brace plays peek-a-boo. I want to wrap mine high gloss red to match my painted calipers

OnlyGerman · 05-28-2021, 08:20 AM

Does the bumper need to be removed to take off the vents in front of v brace?

lsturbointeg · 05-28-2021, 10:47 PM

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Does the bumper need to be removed to take off the vents in front of v brace?

yes! there are components that need to be removed to get to those vents in order to take them out. like this whole front piece

pabusky · 05-29-2021, 06:38 PM

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Just a noob question: mine has one more metal fence in front of the v brace, did you guys just throw it away? Any effect on that?

Any photos? I know when I upgraded to M sport front bumper I removed the plastic pieces in front of the v brace to expose it more.

My bad. Just saw on a post on Instagram that it's plastic, that's why I'm a noob. Anyway what does it do? Just for filtering large debris going in the intercooler?

What year is your car? I have a '16 LCI version and my car came with active vents. It actually looks kind of cool when the fan turn S on the vents open, then close again. The v brace plays peek-a-boo. I want to wrap mine high gloss red to match my painted calipers

Mine is 15 LCI. I thought active vent is only on G30, but it's cool that you got it! Mind sharing some pics of it?

ezaircon4jc · 05-29-2021, 06:55 PM

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Mine is 15 LCI. I thought active vent is only on G30...

The shutters behind the grill? Our 2012 has them...

dzz · 05-30-2021, 10:24 AM

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sorry if there's already a thread about this. im just looking for some inspiration what color to wrap my v brace for my black car.

Here is mine

pabusky · 05-31-2021, 09:48 AM

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Mine is 15 LCI. I thought active vent is only on G30...

The shutters behind the grill? Our 2012 has them...

Sorry about my ignorance, I thought it's something like this (though this is X3):

ezaircon4jc · 05-31-2021, 12:44 PM

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Sorry about my ignorance, I thought it's something like this (though this is X3):

I thought we were discussing the F10 chassis. The G3xx are different.

pabusky · 05-31-2021, 02:10 PM

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Sorry about my ignorance, I thought it's something like this (though this is X3):

I thought we were discussing the F10 chassis. The G3xx are different.

I found out what you mean after some search. That's nice! I don't have it (though I'm not sure because I never check the vent when the car is on). Wonder if it's from some package?

ezaircon4jc · 05-31-2021, 03:49 PM

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I found out what you mean after some search. That's nice! I don't have it (though I'm not sure because I never check the vent when the car is on). Wonder if it's from some package?

The shutters are normally closed and only open when necessary.

spielnicht · 06-01-2021, 01:28 PM

Ran across this from another forum thread. I believe this is as lazy as lazy can get ;-)

Planning on tackling mine this week - will be removing the v-brace complete from the car to paint.

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