Grill Mod
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Grill Mod
I liked what Chris (F350-6) did on his wifes vehicle so I thought I would give it a whirl so I painted my grill (not my braces for the smart allecks out there)
Started here:
Ready for paint:
The paint used:
The truck without grill but an extra inch of snow (Yuck):
And a couple shots of completed project:
All in all not bad. I was hoping it would look a little more like chrome but thats all right. Pretty cheap all around. About $8 in paint and a little tape and a scotchbrite pad. Should look nice in the rearview mirror of small cars at stoplights. lol
Started here:
Ready for paint:
The paint used:
The truck without grill but an extra inch of snow (Yuck):
And a couple shots of completed project:
All in all not bad. I was hoping it would look a little more like chrome but thats all right. Pretty cheap all around. About $8 in paint and a little tape and a scotchbrite pad. Should look nice in the rearview mirror of small cars at stoplights. lol
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That looks good Jay. I did something similar. let me know how your paint hold up. I found a plastic specific paint. I just hope that it hold up to the weather. It gets pretty hot in the summer.
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Looks good, but just about anything looks better than the way the factory left it.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
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Looks good, but just about anything looks better than the way the factory left it.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
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I wasn't trying to be negative in my earlier post, just pointing out what I noticed.
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Apparently the color matching only looks right with some colors. We painted the wife's grill black last weekend (leaving the factory chrome) because she thought the black would look better. Whenever the wind quits blowing, guess who's painting it chrome again
I wasn't trying to be negative in my earlier post, just pointing out what I noticed.
I wasn't trying to be negative in my earlier post, just pointing out what I noticed.
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Luckily it's not that hard to take it back out and paint it a different color if you don't like the white. The gloss black seems to look good on some of the lighter color trucks, it just didn't stand out on the black truck like it does on the others.
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Looks good, but just about anything looks better than the way the factory left it.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
Just a couple of observations. The paint is labeled "Brilliant Silver" instead of chrome. It's also labeled as indoor. While a rattle can will never look like real chrome, maybe the chrome paint might have been a tad brighter. Also keep an eye on the paint to see if the sun makes the indoor one fade.
FYI to anyone else thinking about doing this. The Ford emblem can be removed from the grill to make the tape job easier. It just pushes out from the back side.
With those pics, I'm starting to feel bad about hiding in the house today. I thought it was too cold to go outside with a high of only 62 and 30 mph winds.
Thanks for the compliments guys. I knew it would not technically look chrome, especially close up but thats ok.
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Okay -- hard to tell from pics sometimes. People were calling Tenn's silver truck white for a long time... LMAO!!!
