The first time I painted my grill I used a bunch of different shit like bulldog (chrome adhesive) like 3 coats of primer, a bunch of coats of paint and a bunch of clear. about 2 months into it the paint started chipping and getting worse and worse and worse. A lot of people have been using the plasti dip so I thought, hey.... i'd give it a try. The second time was a lot faster because I knew how to take everything off and bla bla bla. About 3 cans later just to be on the safer side. So that's about 25$ worth of plasti dip and sandpaper which is $5. And water for the sandpaper to wet sand everything..... Priceless. Also I used about 4-5 coats on each piece
Here are some before pictures
And After......... I used a wire brush which is shown in one of the pictures to get as much of the older paint as I could off of the mesh grill part. This plasti dip seems to stick to pretty much anything though
You still need to do a very light prep... you want that surface as clean as possible so you don't have any contaminants trapped under the coating. I took a wire brush and wheel to the grill to get a really clean surface, the trim i just cleaned with soap and water.
+1 on that. I tried to wetsand the chrome, but it really didnt do shit. And if you want to go back to normal i'd suggest don't even get any sandpaper. Just spray it on and your set
Still looking good. Because i didn't remove the lower grill, the chrome surround has peeled in a few spots because it doesn't extend below the body work and i assume the bodywork is scraping against it a little. Eventually i will get around to pull out the lower one and re painting it but you can tell unless you are up close.
One of my headlights is doing the flicker thing. When I pull my front bumper to swap the bulb I'll use that as an excuse to pull the grilles and P-dip mine black as well.
Uhhh.. If this is indeed what the picture shows, I would have most definitely NOT plasti-dipped the radiator... There's absolutely no way that spraying plastic type coating on your cooling fins is going to help things...
No guys. I sprayed the crap behind the radiator with flat black. This really helps from being able to look right through the mesh and see all the crap behind it.
Uhhh.. If this is indeed what the picture shows, I would have most definitely NOT plasti-dipped the radiator... There's absolutely no way that spraying plastic type coating on your cooling fins is going to help things...
I got a small chip on my upper grille. But that was from my installer scraping it on something when he had to take it off to do my cam. tape it off real quick, sprayed two coats. wala; like new again
I may be trying this for my '09's grille if the Krylon Fusion doesn't work. For your grilles, I'd still recommend powdercoating but, of course, that's not reversible. So...
THIS. On the face of the wheel where the dip was heaviest it peeled nicely. Where it was lighter in between the spokes and on the rear of the wheel it didn't peel worth a crap. I put four coats on but If I had to recommend to someone else I would say five and ensure you get it on there thick.
The thicker it is the easier it is to get off and the bigger the sheets that peel.
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