anyone paint their grill?

[jacobwebb57]

so i want to paint my grill black.. im just wondering who has done it how it turned out and what kind of paint..thanks

[Gots_a_sol]

My grill is cracked up so I just threw some $1/can spray paint and some masking tape at it to see if I would like it. I would definitely find a grill that doesn't have the chrome stuff on it to paint as it is peeling off (it was peeling prior to me painting it, just old age I guess)

[RumbleFish]

The low dollar work trucks had a silver grill, not chrome. That would probably work best. Although I do like the look of just the chrome center as posted above. I've been thinking about a black chrome paint I saw recently.

[oldestof11]

Gots_a_sol, I love that! I was wondering how it would look but didn't have the guts to do it. Now I will be doing it.

[jacobwebb57]

what type of paint did you use and how did you prep it.. i wanna do this right i dont feel like pepaintign it in 2 months ya know

[Gots_a_sol]

The paint I used was just cheap, crappy 99 cent spray paint from home depot



If I was doing it for a permanent thing I'd pick something else, maybe Krylon Fusion for plastic?

http://www.krylon.com/products/fusion_for_plastic/

[ahale2772]

funny, last time i had a dirbike, I sprayed the plastics all black, didnt really care about what it looked like so i used the cheepo lowes stuff ^like that stuff

worked better than anyof the plastic paints ive used...

[ellis93]

There is an Adhesion promoter called Bulldog that works really well a helping paint stick to plastic and chrome. You can pick it up at Walmart or O'Reillys

[jacobwebb57]

cool thanks

[ramtough1993]

I think that its pretty sweet when guys paint their grill to match their truck but I was toying with the idea of just painting my grill inserts to match the truck, any thoughts, suggestions?

[jacobwebb57]

i think if you paint the grill black and the inserts whatever color you want then it would look good but idk about the chrome

[ramtough1993]

I saw a 93 cummins lime green, had chrome grill, with lime green inserts and bezels, I didn't care for the bezels; but the inserts looked real mean, i will have to try it out