I removed my Safari bar which was chrome to let me install and my front hitch. With the bar gone, the chrome grill just looked like too much to me and some other people. I took some charcoal colored vinyl I had and covered the grill to get a feel for what it would look like. I liked the general look of it and decided to go ahead and paint it up.
Using James T's thread I tried to bubble the chrome from my grill, but my chrome is very resilient as you can see. It would wrinkle but not peel-
So I broke out the dremel detail sander I bought some time back and started sanding.
While sanding I decided to leave the vertical bars chrome, so I masked the center off
Sanded and ready to paint-
I used dupli color Dark Shadow Grey rattle can paint, and dupli color clear top coat. Four color coats later and two clear coats later-
All of this went so well and I had extra paint, so I pulled my discolored front bumper, sanded with 800 grit, primed with flexible primer, and painted, then cleared same color-
Let it all dry a couple of hours and put it on-
Here is a before from when I was working on my front hitch the other day-
Using James T's thread I tried to bubble the chrome from my grill, but my chrome is very resilient as you can see. It would wrinkle but not peel-
So I broke out the dremel detail sander I bought some time back and started sanding.
While sanding I decided to leave the vertical bars chrome, so I masked the center off
Sanded and ready to paint-
I used dupli color Dark Shadow Grey rattle can paint, and dupli color clear top coat. Four color coats later and two clear coats later-
All of this went so well and I had extra paint, so I pulled my discolored front bumper, sanded with 800 grit, primed with flexible primer, and painted, then cleared same color-
Let it all dry a couple of hours and put it on-
Here is a before from when I was working on my front hitch the other day-