ECS or ESC tuning sells blacked out front grills. In terms of upgrades you should consider Osram / Sylvania LED 6418LED festoon bulbs for your license plate lights, door lights, under dash, glovebox, etc. No coding /error issues. Buy them at Autozone for about $9-10 each. Add rear seat foot area lights (in the forum), a 30 minute upgrade and well worth it. Weathertech trunk mat (minimum) and weathertech for the others. Bilstein B6 shocks. Do a SERIOUS fluid session for your two differentials, transmission and transfer case. When you change your cabin filter, remove the whole assembly (only a few nuts, easier than you realize) and wash the inside from 7+ years of crude - mine was unbelievably dirty (upstream of the filter). Dynamat inside your doors, makes a significant difference in sound system performance and your doors sound like a high end BMW when you close them.

Black wheels on black car is just too much for me. I would plasti-Dip 3 coats of black and 3 coats of Silver Metalizer on top. It will give a "mean" dark color wheels look with a little contrast with the car.
Here's what the wheel color should look like
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps6e19747c.png

:iagree: That flat black on black is too much. There is also a glossifier that you can add over black that helps. There are other color options like antracite or charcoal gray that have enough contrast that if you want the flat look have enough color variation. For more input there is a plastidip thread.

I thought those wheels were powdercoated TMV.

Here is the thread
http://www.xoutpost.com/bmw-sav-foru...ed-your-x.html

I agree! I am not a huge fan of the flat black on black. tmv, on that E39 5-series - is that plastidip??

4.8isX5 I like what you have done!

The wheels were powder coated gloss black. That's not my style but they're too good of a deal.
I have 5 coats of plasti-dip Silver Metalizer on top of it.