My bumper was painted and me not telling them i didnt want it, they painted the grill red also. What is the best way to get the grill back to black? Paint? iff so what kind if anyone has done this and came out looking nice?

 

Painter did that to my bumper too. When I was at the shop to pick it up I mentioned to them that the grill isn't suppose to be painted, so they took it back and painted the grill flat black. Got it back the next day and everything was perfect. Just take it back and tell them whats wrong.

 

I used Painters tape and newspaper to mask the entire bumper and a can of flat black. Came out perfect.

Spray coat
Let the paint 'flash'
repeat as desired

let the paint sit for 10 minutes or so. then slowly and carefully remove the masking material.

 

what type of flat black paint did you use? is it bumper paint or something like that?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by .Sarge. &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I used Painters tape and newspaper to mask the entire bumper and a can of flat black. Came out perfect.

Spray coat
Let the paint 'flash'
repeat as desired

let the paint sit for 10 minutes or so. then slowly and carefully remove the masking material. </TD></TR></TABLE>

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by athbaseball23 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">what type of flat black paint did you use? is it bumper paint or something like that?</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah I'm sure that will work

 

Make sure to scuff the clear off with a scotchbrite or you run the chance of not getting good adhesiojn.

 

options are:

1. take it back and tell them
2. mask it off and paint with black paint

 

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1. take it back and tell them
2. mask it off and paint with black paint</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah, I'd probably would do this... you shouldn't have to spend anymore money than what you paid THEM to do

 

ALSO! Forgot to say this but you should go over the area that your painting with some 400 grit paper.
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I used a cheap $1 walmart special. Ill get closeup pics of what she looks like if needed.
Before

After

 

as long as it's black i guess

 

Listen...take my word on this....tape it all off, scuff LIGHTLY, then use Krylon BBQ pit and grill paint. The **** lays awesome, self leveling even as hell, and has a beautiful brand new trim look to it. The can has a beige upper portion where it says Krylon and there is a bbq pit on the front of it. The sh*t looks perfect I'm tellin you.

The good thing about grill paint is it'll lay over everything too. Any mild steel exhausts or downpipes I do, I coat in this paint. It stands up to heat, weather, everything. The paint is pretty awesome stuff. Krylon only though. The other brand bbq grill paints I tried are flat and suck, Krylons is awesome!

 

thanks for the help, sounds easy enough might try this out this weekend

 

only problem with all this. I had my bumper re-done on behalf of them painting my bumper. And with daily driving, the rocks and ect. have torn through the black paint and reveled the mistake. So know i got a black and blue front grille. Was wondering if i should just tape off and scape all the paints away.

 

You could use trim paint.

 

TRIM PAINT

 

you could sand it back to the plastic material it was before hand.

 

I used tremclad flatblack and sanded first, looks OEM.

 

sand it down back to oem black w/ 220 and then prime it and spray it w/ flat black

 

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what would look better just the middle grill black, or paint them all black? and which way is stock i dont remember.

 

heres the finished product: what do yall think?
Before:


AFTER:


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sorry for bad pic, it was taken from a phone?

 

i belive the grill and fog light area were all black on each eg, i could be wrong..

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Hiii Im TYLER &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i belive the grill and fog light area were all black on each eg, i could be wrong.. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Just the 92-93, in 94-95 the fog light area became painted.

 

so what do yall think about the job? hopefully better pics soon