aight so today...im thinking about painting the chrome part on the front grill? have any of you ever done this?...did you sand the chrome off? or did you just directly paint over it? i think im just gonna paint the whole piece black. any help is cool. thanks

 

you shouldnt paint directly over chrome it wont adhere.

 

Run a search on this. Theres a thread somewhere which has step by step instructions on how to do it. Basically its sand, primer, paint and then if you want gloss.

 

just do a ligtsanding and then doa premier it should fine after that

 

okay well right now im on s tight budget...so i ecided let me try some of that "paint adhesive" stuff. it says it allows paint to stick to most automotive surfaces. so yeah im gonna try that then paint it....ill see how that looks. ill tsake pics to show to. if it looks like crap then monday my next day off ill do all the sanding and primering and ****. but right now also me and my friend are in the middle of a DIY side skirt paint and primer for his civic ex coupe 2000so hes got alot of **** for it

 

I can't really believe that a paint adhesive that's used before you paint is any cheaper than some 200 grit paper.... esp if your boy already has the stuff to paint a bodykit.... good luck with it though...

 

are you goin to use bottle spray paint?

 

yeah...i know...but like seriously.......i was just a lazy ****...and when i actually went to sand it down...it didnt look like it was gonna be fun...anyway ill have pics soon. everything went cool..had a few mis-haps over the night with both the grill and the bodykit. but my **** came out cool cept for the few dings from putting it back on while not dry. we thought it was but it was a seriously nasty humid night and it just ****ed everything.....pics soon though

 

yeah actually...what i used was dupli-cplors bumber paint. dude the color matches perfectly to the inserts in the grill