Painted my grill today...

This ^

lets just say you got this truck with expensive cool items, someone can easily find your home address by your plate number then go to you place around 3am and just take whatever they want , assuming that its not garage kept.

Im sure you'll need to know what you are doing or have some connections here and there, but you'd be surprised what these scrubs will do to steal a used $100 tonneau cover and so on.

 

Paranoia mostly.
If someone is going to look up my plate somehow and get my address to rob me, they would have to be local. If they are local they can see my plate every day when I am in my truck driving around or parked at the mall.

 

Snowman That is my exact point.

 

Looks great. Going to do my grill soon.

 

Looks great man!

 

Gonna have to do this mine soon, I cannot stand chrome!!!

 

I wanted to do this to my truck. So I got some paint from Automotive touch up. chrome grill with 600 grit sandpaper. I also ordered a grill from custom car grills.com. so I cut out the middle section of my grill.I put about 7 coats of self etching primer on the grill. I wet sanded the primer. Then I put 7 base coats on the grill. When it was all dry I put 5 coats of clear coat on the grill and polished it. I also painted the radiator black as well as the lower valence interior peace. this is the final outcome I think it turned out pretty good.

 

Looks awesome. How much did the paint and clear coat run you in total?

 

I got two cans of base coat. (Only needed one can) and one can of clear coat. $57 shipped to my house. Duplicolor did not make my color.

 

looks good! Should have left the vents black

 

what vents are you talking about.

 

I ws talking about OP's truck. his grill has vents on them. Different grill from 2012-2015, than from from 2005-2011.

I have same color truck btw! look into gunmetal wheels looks great with our color. I used same process to paint my wheels a few weeks back . Love them.

 

I thought about that color for my rims. Any pictures?

 

i never understood why people paint their radiator? wouldn't that layer of paint put a strain on the condenser?

 

Let me get back to you tomorrow. I don't have any good pictures, but here are some I've taken.

Also, take a look at @motionridr8 's build. He was the inspiration

 

It's a light coat of spray paint. I haven't noticed any changes in my temperature Guage. I also ordered a lower grill insert. I painted that area to.

 

I check out your inspirations page. I like the look of the rims. I also like the hidden winch

 

Yeah I realy want a US OffRoad hidden winch, but pretty expensive

 

I wish @05PreRunner (the OP) was still around since he started this thread so he could report on how it held up. My guess is not so well. Paint adheres to chrome (hot dipped or vacuum applied to plastics) like crap and adhesion promoter is for plastic not vacuum metalized plating.

 

I did mine 3 yrs ago to color match and it's holding up.

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