Painted my grill today...

^^^^What he said...

I painted the chrome grill on my 2007 Dakota. I sanded and used Bulldog adhesion promoter before painting. It looked good (as good as a Dakota can look), but it did chip easily if hit by a rock or a hard headed bug. I don't know how it would have held up long term, since some pecker head T Boned me a few months after I painted it.

 

Thanks! I like the concept of changing/upgrading/adding as much as possible to the truck, but still appearing clean and simple. The US Offroad winch mount may be on the pricer side, but you get what you pay for. And in this case, that is a super stout winch mount that fits perfectly into the stock bumper, and made in USA!

 

I think you can buy just the winch mount and still keep the stock lower valence.

 

I want to paint mine but want my vents to remain black

 

does anyone else get to do this inside the house??? Rain here this week soooooo....

 

i probably would have waited

 

I probably SHOULD have... but, I didn't.

 

And the kids will continue to Krylon their chrome and report fantastic results after a "long term" seven day city street "test".

 

Beautiful job

 

Can you not remove the bezel and avoid all the taping?

 

No

 

And why is that? I haven't taken the grill out obviously but from the outside it appears to be 2 easily separated pieces?

 

The surround and insert are one piece. You can only pop out the Toyota logo.

 

Reading through all this, I’m still a little confused on type of paint to use, Enamel or Lacquer. Or does it really matter as long as clear coat is the same?

 

That’s looks awesome! I was thinking of doing plastidip for mine, but this seems like a cleaner look.

 

What do you do if the chrome is already starting to peal? Here is pic of my 08...

 

Sand all the chrome away and repaint it.

You should always sand the chrome off even if it wasn’t peeling. Paint does not stick to chrome.

 

Dopppppe!! I’m looking to do the same on my white Tacoma

 

Nice write up! Plan on doing my grille when it cools down. Right now 90's with 104 heat index.