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SPF Why do you guys black everything out? Are you trying to look hard or something?

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by Itchyfeet, Dec 27, 2019.

  1. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:45 AM
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    Itchyfeet

    Itchyfeet [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Maybe I have a bit of ok boomer in me, but I like a little chrome and definition in my vehicles. I drive a 2018 DCSB OR and the Limited fog surrounds are calling me. I might be feeling a bit rich and might just do the fucker up in a deep rich brown circa early Porsche 928 since a woman tried to paint them brown a few months back
     
  2. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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    piff

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    Different strokes for different folks
     
  3. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:46 AM
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    whatstcp

    whatstcp currently drunk so don't listen to me

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    never seen a group of automotive enthusiasts get more triggered than 3rd gen owners with the keyhole on the glovebox.
     
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  4. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:47 AM
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    GreyBaldTaco

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    Murdered out for a bunch of murderers!
     
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  5. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:47 AM
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    daddy_o

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    Chrome has its place on motorcycles and 18 wheelers. Cars and pickup trucks do not need chrome. That's my opinion, and we all know what they say about opinions.
     
  6. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:48 AM
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    Itchyfeet

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    Yeah, but Ford, RAM and Chevy sell a tonne of trucks with Chrome
     
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  7. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:49 AM
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    GreyBaldTaco

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    They also have terrible reliability, chrome = bad reliability.
     
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  8. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:50 AM
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    Panchovilla6192002

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    I actually like chrome. But not on these trucks
     
  9. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:53 AM
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    St0rm-Tr00per

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    I’m OK with a little chrome ... but to each their own.
     
  10. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:53 AM
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    JCOOR

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    Chrome has no business on a truck
     
  11. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:56 AM
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    windsor

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    Fixed.
     
  12. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:57 AM
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    computeruser6

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  13. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:57 AM
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    bagleboy

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    Trying with chrome is somehow different? Or trying with debadging? The mistake is in assuming there's any trying going on, maybe there is and maybe there isn't but there needn't be a point to it. Certainly not one that needs approval.
     
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  14. Dec 27, 2019 at 11:59 AM
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    Martian__

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    Too much chrome is tacky. I wouldn’t add more chrome to a vehicle that didn’t come with chrome from the factory. Too much chrome reminds me of low riders.
     
  15. Dec 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM
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    boston23

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    The plastic chrome trim looks like shit to me. The real chrome steel on old classic trucks looks cool.
     
  16. Dec 27, 2019 at 12:00 PM
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    whoispurplegoo

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    once i swapped out of the stock wheels, i didn't think my tacoma had enough chrome to make it look like a coherent part of the design, so it was easier just to black out the rest of it. my mini cooper, on the other hand, looks great with chrome accents.
     
  17. Dec 27, 2019 at 12:01 PM
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  20. Dec 27, 2019 at 12:03 PM
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