Help with blacking out chrome accents/grill!

Online toyota parts dealers. Do a search here for threads on the topic.

 

Sweet. Will do!

 

I think this is the one I followed once upon a time. Same concept and procedure, only I had to add the masking steps at the beginning since I wasn't replacing the grille insert.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/painting-the-grille.117163/

 

Damn. Seems easy enough. Just some time invested and it should be done. You have any pictures of yours colormatched? I havent seen a silver one color matched yet.

 

Here it is the day I re-installed:

 

Nice! Can you remember the duplicolor shade /color number you used?

 

I might colormatch like yours or just go matte black cause my toolbox is black, badges will be black. I think it might work nicely

 

Color code 1E7 (Silver Streak Mica).

 

Alright cool. I appreciate the help!!!!

 

I thought about doing the blacked out surround (as I plasti-dipped my badges, flares, wheels, and bumper valence), but decided I liked the smoothness of the 1E7 surround with black inserts better.

 

Yea theres something super clean about a colormatched grill surround. Ill have a winch and all that put on later so its about deciding what will look best with the winch on there too.

Ill post pictures to reveal what i decide no doubt haha

 

Vinyl wrap it.

 

I think it'll look just as clean with a blacked plate bumper, for sure. All I've got is a light bar behind the stock bumper, so I can't really offer anything to compare though. Plenty of other members' trucks that do though.

 

True true. Im currently googling images for silver tacomas eith black grill surround. I like what im seeing!

 

Best of luck with whichever route you choose to go!