Go to the parts store (discount auto, pep boys) and see their chrome paint. It will not paint as chrome as it claims to do, but it will paint a very metalic looking silver, like the one on your grill. If you use silver paint you will get a 'brilliant silver' kind of color, which is not what you want. I can almost guarantee it willl not be the same silver color, but doubt you'll notice the difference.

Then you can follow the directions posted earlier, if you screw it up, I guess you could repainted or buy the piece.

My ML is brilliant silver and I wanted sort of a monochromatic look so I painted the grill with silver paint which looks like the rest of the car. The 'new' ML55 grill is not the same silver, but a more metalic silver.

hope this helps

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