Finally got a decent honeycomb grill, I did want to keep the chrome surround and thought I'd ordered the right one but it turned out to be silver but I don't mind. I bought some black chrome wrap to have a go at wrapping the frame but I failed miserably. After pulling the wrap off it took some of the very thin silver paint off the frame so I'm going to have to fix this first.
I'm left with a few options
I can either plastic dip the frame silver (going to have to go over the window trims too)
Paint the surround as I'm not sure how well the plastic dip holds up ( will have to do something with the window trim so it matches)
Or potentially take the chrome trim off my current grill and hope it fits? I've been trying to find pictures of the trim removed so I can see what the tabs look like but I've not found any yet so if anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.
Sean, I have plasti dipped my whole grille with surround, although it was black but I have to say, I have mixed opinion on the dip now.
It came out well as I opted for the black matt finish. They key to remove it by peeling off afterwards is a proper prep.
I haven't done so as there were too many honeycombs to degrease and prep, what resulted dip to stick to it well. It never even started to peel off but when I decided to go back to original Black gloss, it took me ages to clean this off.
I did some write up about it.
Still have some residue if dip in the hard to reach honeycomb corners. Plan to get on with it one day.
As for the window surrounds, I had them also dipped in matt black.
Write up about it also was made and I have failed there again.
Rubbers on the window frames, when it shuts in the car, was rubbing dipped chrome frames and started to peel it off.
It resulted with horrible dip flakes hanging off and chrome showing through it all over the upper trim.
Peeled it off right after.
Had it on the car for about a week.
Prep and masking the car off took me a day! Peeling it all off took 15 minutes.
Only bit I had left from the chrome trims on the doors is the lower door trim and handles.
Handles eventually peeled off with time, after about 5-6 months after and the lower chrome is still there, about 2 years now.
Noticed last time I washed the car that it started to come off but thinking of getting the gloss vinyl and re-do them and handles again that way.
Also have a plan of the silver bit around the clocks and on the centre console to be wrapped in it. Still deciding.
As easy dipping is and it looks, if you're not prep it properly, you will end up cleaning it all off with white spirit. A lot of it.
Why cant you just spray it gloss black?
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