Black trim and black paint on a XLS

[Snowboi]

Not sure if this is the place to post, if its not the right place can a moderator please move it to the correct section.

I've been trying to decide on if I should paint the fender/bumper trim black to match the body paint (which will be repainted later on), I was thinking just spraying all the trim with rubber-ish bumper paint, just not sure if I would like it. Does anybody here have a black XLS with black trim.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jason c]

I've got a black with black limited.

 

[LoganD]

So that's the stock tupperware, but it's just painted black?

 

[Snowboi]

Thanks for the picture. Still trying to decide, because the gray looks good, but figured I'd try to add my own touch to it. I'll prolly just try to get a friend to photoshop it to see the way it looks, I really would like the rubber-ish finish for the trim. The only problem I would come across is the rear bumper, its not plastic like all the other crap, so it may not look as good as I thought.

 

[Jason c]

So that's the stock tupperware, but it's just painted black?

Black from the factory.

I really would like the rubber-ish finish for the trim.

Make sure you test it out off the truck before you coat everything on it. Bed-liner comes in different formulas. I used raptor bed-liner on the outside of my baja and I loved it. It's more plasticy feeling then rubbery and just hosed off. Some one else used linex and hated it. They said the rubbery texture was a PITA to clean and just shredded the was mits and left fuzzies all over it.

 

[Snowboi]

The stuff I was lookign for wasnt bed-liner, its called bumper paint, I've seen shop paint with it using a spray gun instead of the can. Its not glossy, its more like satin with a rubber-ish look.

 

[Jason c]

The stuff I was lookign for wasnt bed-liner, its called bumper paint, I've seen shop paint with it using a spray gun instead of the can. Its not glossy, its more like satin with a rubber-ish look.

Whoops. Some reason I thought you were talking about bed-liner.

 

[Snowboi]

Its ok, I was thinking about bed-liner, but then I thought about all the bumps and stuff, it wouldn't really help with aerodynamic of the Explorer, which could be bad for the gas mileage budget build. I might just repaint the steel bumper part glossy black like the rest of the body, and then paint the trim bumper black, I will have to find better quality paint for the roof trim, because they will fade in NO TIME.

Thanks for everyone's help. I will need to replace the front bumper and bumper parts, do to a previous wreck, which doesn't even show.

Whats funny is, I recall only one dent (drivers side door), nothing else, looking over the truck again, I see a dent in the drivers side rear door (like somebody hit it with a white car) and a huge dent in the front bumper, something just doesn't seem right....