Painted the grill & bumpers

How does it look? Would probably look better washed. Wheels are next!

Before



After

 

Look's good!

 

Looks hella good. Nice job on the paint job seriously

 

looks grreat bye chrome

 

Looks sooooooo much better. I think the colormatched grille makes it look 4x as good.

 

wow!! that looks professional. did you do it yourself?

 

Looks good

 

looks real good, looks professional

 

Did it myself. About one long day's worth of work. I was told I wouldn't need a clear coat on the color matched area, but now I'm thinking otherwise.

Some more

 

Looks really good Did you just scuff the grille and primer and paint?

 

Yeah, I followed some other posts for the most part.

 

I'm thinking of doing my grille and bumper color matched, what type of paint did you use on the grille?

 

I went to Napa with the color code and had them make up a spray can there. Was about $27 a can, but I only used one can anyway.

 

That looks sweet dude!! I was thinking of doing the exact same thing with my taco. I kinda want to do black instead though. I'm going to UW too so maybe I'll see ya around.

 

Wow, thread resurrection

 

so... how bout an update? Has all your work held up to the test of time/ Old Man Winter?? fading, scuffing, peeling etc?? I've been thinkin about doin this but want to know it will last!

 

WoooooW.
thread revival for sure.
his truck is harldy stock now..

 

It held up really well! Had none of the problems you mentioned. Since then, it's experienced a wind storm that literally sand blasted the windshield, hood, grill, and bumper. It went through a hail storm recently. The hail hit so hard, the paint on the hood cracked, so I decided I had enough and herculined the hood and grill. But like I said, under "normal" weather conditions it held up really well. No fading, peeling, ect.

Wind damage (recent pic)...



Even had someone back into my truck. Bumper is dirty in the pic, but the paint didn't even come off.



As it sits now

 

Nice, thanks! and Damn that sure is far from stock!.. lookin good!