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Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:40 PM
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Lightbulb 04 grille painting?

._. man it's ugly.




The grille as you may know is an off light gray, and it just takes away from the deep, dark look of the truck, especially in the sunlight


I've been planning on painting the plastic grille part black for a while, so are there any best ways to get this done? Should be a pretty simple procedure;
undo grill, unscrew my already painted bowtie, and just give the grille a few even passes, right?

Or am I missing something?
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Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:47 PM
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your wanting to paint the black mesh on your grill? or the chrome bar?

look into getting a billet grill and painting it black, theres a guy on here with that and his screen name is zeke something....i'll see if i can find some pics of it
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Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:50 PM
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https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=465711

here ya go. message him and ask how he went about painting his if your interested in doing it.

if you wana make the mesh on your grill look darker, just get some vht spray or in and out spray from adams polishes on here and it'll make it look real black
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Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:55 PM
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yeaa the mesh. The chrome bar, thatd be a different project entirely, unless it's that easy :p

Ahh the billet is 100 bucks though,and yea I've seen blacked out SS's with it, looks good, but IDK about 100 more dollars into looks.
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Old Jan 8, 2011 | 11:59 PM
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then if you dont wana spend that, get you some of this and spray on your grill-

http://www.adamspolishes.com/p-517-a...ound-only.aspx

that'll bring the black out in it again and you wont have to paint it and have it flaking down the road
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Old Jan 9, 2011 | 12:02 AM
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Originally Posted by gs7793
https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=465711

here ya go. message him and ask how he went about painting his if your interested in doing it.

if you wana make the mesh on your grill look darker, just get some vht spray or in and out spray from adams polishes on here and it'll make it look real black

Any chance they carry that at say an AZ or PB? I might pick up some of the in and out stuff

As far as that chrome bar, seems like too much work to kill it, though I'd like it gone haha
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Old Jan 9, 2011 | 12:06 AM
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I just used some rattle can flat black from Oreilys, spent a couple bucks total...
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Originally Posted by Bowtie03
I just used some rattle can flat black from Oreilys, spent a couple bucks total...
hmm flat black? Did it turn out awesome?
Any pictures of the front @_@?

also- nice color
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Originally Posted by Nuclear Endless
Any chance they carry that at say an AZ or PB? I might pick up some of the in and out stuff

As far as that chrome bar, seems like too much work to kill it, though I'd like it gone haha
nope. adams polishes are only online i belive
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Originally Posted by gs7793
nope. adams polishes are only online i belive
damn. And I hate buying things online
might just grab some decent black spray paint. That's how we did the bowtie anyways
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