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Re: painting grill, some questions.
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Posted by speegee (more from speegee) on Thu, 27 Mar 2003 00:14:00 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: painting grill, some questions., BuHuSPG, Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:47:39
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I'm painting a '91 grill as we speak. Took it off a junker just to see how a black grill with bumper-grey slats would look. The chrome was pitted from road debris but totally intact & not peeling. The thing with that chrome is quality control. Some 15 year old grills with 200k on them have totally no peeling chrome, while others half their age bubble chrome at all the edges.

Anyway, forget about sanding away all the chrome, it's tough as nails where it's bonded well to the plastic. I sanded the chrome to rough it up with 220, then 400 grit paper & water. 'Course I disassembled the grill first.
The choice of paint was tricky, as I think a standard enamel spray will ding & pit to hell in no time, plus it won't stick well to the chrome. I sprayed some primer, let it dry and did a fingernail scratch test and it doesn't stick well either, so I bought a can of rustoleum black appliance epoxy and shot a test spot. It holds up well, not as well as a true two-part epoxy but I didn't want to get too crazy. The appliance epoxy does bond well to the chrome and it seems pretty tough (ding-resistant), so we'll see.

Warning though, if you apply a 2nd coat, it needs to be within 1/2 hour or after one week. It dries to the touch overnight but I made the mistake of respraying in a day and it all wrinked up, so I'm resanding & respraying this weekend.

I wouldn't mind inserting a perforated metal grill in there but I've got a remote detector behind the slats so I'm just reusing the original slat insert, playing with the color a bit (now it's a metallic stock bumper grey) to highlight the grill frame.

Have no idea if I'll like it or not but heck, I've still got the original if I don't.

Good luck.


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