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Old 04-07-2012, 07:44 PM
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Been thinking about doing this for a while, so I finally went ahead earlier today and painted the grille trim and fog bezels black to match the car. The grille wasn't coming off easily like I had expected, so as always with these newer vehicles, parts are attached so even a bomb couldn't pull parts off. The fog bezels are pressed into the fascia and not part of the fog assembly. Those two things said, I ended up masking everything, which really turned out not to be too much of a problem, just took me a while. Still have to go back after a couple days and buff the paint when it cures.

This is the finished result...

 

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Old 04-07-2012, 07:53 PM
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Looks Nice..
 
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Looks good!
 
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Originally Posted by 06mistreSS
Been thinking about doing this for a while, so I finally went ahead earlier today and painted the grille trim and fog bezels black to match the car. The grille wasn't coming off easily like I had expected, so as always with these newer vehicles, parts are attached so even a bomb couldn't pull parts off. The fog bezels are pressed into the fascia and not part of the fog assembly. Those two things said, I ended up masking everything, which really turned out not to be too much of a problem, just took me a while. Still have to go back after a couple days and buff the paint when it cures.

This is the finished result...

I did this literally 2 days ago!!! I'll help you out an post a pre photo for everyone :P
 
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Prep Work I did to prevent over spray



I'll see what I can do to post my after photo since my Bow tie is Black
 
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Old 04-07-2012, 09:03 PM
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Thanks guys!

Justin, wow yeah I didn't take any pictures during shooting the paint, but that's about what my deal looked like too. Fairly easy to tape around everything. I don't really want to paint my bowtie black, but it'll be nice to see yours painted and mine not and the difference that makes with the black trim.
 
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The front is kind of beat up from Detroit driving it was rather depressing coming home finding new dings in the front end almost everyday
 
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