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wpoll 03-06-2019 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LouieViktor (Post 1156782)
this car is pre facelift but the kidneys looks like facelift, how come?

https://photos.motorcar.com/used-200...098-10-640.jpg

They aren't facelift kidneys.

Look at the ridges in the hood (bonnet) that run forward from the rear corners. On pre-facelifts, these ridges run down either side of the kidney's - on a facelift they terminate on the top edge of the kidneys. The ridges on the facelift hood (bonnet) are different but mainly the facelift kidney's are just bigger.

If you want a facelift car, keep looking for one - converting a pre-facelift to facelift can be very expensive.

Also, there are many other updates (xDrive for one) on facelift (LCI) cars that cannot be retro-fitted to pre-facelift cars.

Qsilver7 03-06-2019 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LouieViktor (Post 1156782)
this car is pre facelift but the kidneys looks like facelift, how come?

https://photos.motorcar.com/used-200...098-10-640.jpg

Look again...you can also tell by the number of slats in the kidney grill that these (in pic above) are pre-facelift kidney grills.

  • The pre facelift grills have 8 thin slats.
  • The facelift grills have 7 thicker slats.
You can go back to post #8 and see the pic of the two different front ends and count the slats for each. :)


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