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For those asking about grill swaps and night vision, there is a screw that has to be removed in order to pop the grills out - its part of how the NV bracket mounts to the car itself. Its located above the right side of the drivers side grill, just underneath the area where you remove the 6 screws. Next to the screws just referenced there is a hole that I was able to fit a long socket into and remove the NV mount screw (cannot see the screw unless you peek into the hole, where a hex-top screw sits about 2 inches lower than the 6 screws removed in the prior step). Once I removed that I was able to use the pull method to loosen the grill, but found that the night vision unit is attached to the grill with another 4 screws, as well as a few tabs similar to what the grills themselves use. So 5 screws mounting the NV unit - 1 attaching it to the car itself and 4 attaching it to the grill - and tabs. I removed 2 of the screws but the other 2 I was unable to remove as the cabling going to the unit itself did not have enough slack so I only swapped the surround bezels - chrome for black.

NV setups have a different grill to accommodate the mounting requirements, thus an NV setup cannot use a non-NV grill unless you only swap just the surround bezel and keep the slatted center part in place. If you want to do a whole grill swap you would need to pick up an NV-specific grill from BMW or IND.