After having a very poorly "colormatched" grille for the last two years, I finally nutted up and bought the right paint.
The original plan was to sand smooth the textured black part of the original grille and paint it all green, but when I pulled my old chrome Tahoe grille out of the basement a few weeks ago, I noticed that in all of the corners, the chrome was flaking off.
So since that was already smooth, I just sanded all of the fWONked up spots really well, and scuffed the rest with 320 grit. Yes, that's a camshaft holding the grille up, it was the first thing I found.
No pictures, but it looked kind of cool all scuffed up, sort of a brushed look.
After 2 coats of filler primer to cover the imperfections in the chrome.
Two coats of base coat.
Don't paint in flip flops, you'll look like an idiot.
Then after 4 coats of clear.
It's out drying in the garage now, I'll probably put it on the truck before work tomorrow if it's completely dry, and wetsand/polish in a week or so.
And since all of those pictures suck, here's one of my truck at the track on Wed. (ran a 13.4).
The original plan was to sand smooth the textured black part of the original grille and paint it all green, but when I pulled my old chrome Tahoe grille out of the basement a few weeks ago, I noticed that in all of the corners, the chrome was flaking off.
So since that was already smooth, I just sanded all of the fWONked up spots really well, and scuffed the rest with 320 grit. Yes, that's a camshaft holding the grille up, it was the first thing I found.
No pictures, but it looked kind of cool all scuffed up, sort of a brushed look.
After 2 coats of filler primer to cover the imperfections in the chrome.
Two coats of base coat.
Don't paint in flip flops, you'll look like an idiot.
Then after 4 coats of clear.
It's out drying in the garage now, I'll probably put it on the truck before work tomorrow if it's completely dry, and wetsand/polish in a week or so.
And since all of those pictures suck, here's one of my truck at the track on Wed. (ran a 13.4).
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