Facelifted Kidney Grill Clips for BMW E46

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This is an updated set of Murat's clips which fit on the facelifted E46 kidney grills (My car is a 2002 325i wagon) and work without any filing / cutting / modification of the 3D printed part. How to use: Follow Murat's instructions for trimming the existing clip sockets on the kidney grill plastic (leaving ~1mm left + socket depth). Install as suggested by them (use a small flathead screwdriver or similar to pry the metal tabs of the hood into the printed groove on the clips. My printed parts are numbered and lettered to indicate where they go on the grill. How to read the number/lettering: When standing in front of the car and looking at the grill, there is a Left and Right grill. On each grill, there are 6 possible mounting locations. On each grill (L & R) I have called the outside-most edge (closest to the headlights) location 1. Traveling towards the center of the car, and along the top edge of the grill, you will find locations 2 & 3, and then at the inside-most edge, location 4. On the bottom, you will find locations 5 & 6. Said in a different way: Counting from the outside edge at 1, the Left grill is ascending clockwise and the Right grill is ascending counterclockwise. I've only made clips for locations 3,4 and 5 because this seemed adequate to hold the grills and I was tired of committing time to this project. Will update if they ever fail.