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Painting two tone grille 2012

Old 07-18-2014, 03:22 PM
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I am wondering if anyone has seen or done this? i want to paint my inserts but i feel that chrome spray paint will look terrible. Dipping it in chrome involves thousands of dollars and me shipping it to Florida from South Carolina.
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personally would paint the grille and leave the inserts chrome
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Have you actually been quoted thousands of dollars for plating from an actual plating shop? Try ebay, lots of different grille components on there.
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yes i talked to someone at some charlotte shop and they said in tallahassee there is a place that will do it but "anything bigger than my palm will be atleast $300. i am finding stuff close to what i want but cant find it exactly. im hoping for help on here!
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So you want a grill like the one in the pic you posted? I'm a little confused Can you just order an OEM chrome package grill? I know those are much cheaper than thousands of dollars

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There's a link to that type of grille on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291016890376

Again, sorry if this is not what you were asking about

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Interesting.


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Originally Posted by kchill93
So you want a grill like the one in the pic you posted? I'm a little confused Can you just order an OEM chrome package grill? I know those are much cheaper than thousands of dollars

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There's a link to that type of grille on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291016890376

Again, sorry if this is not what you were asking about
I am just looking for the back mesh of my grill to be shiny chrome. ive tried duralast "chrome" and the two places i got intouch with said it would be 2000 to 2500 for them to do it.

i cant seem to find just the mesh tho
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Originally Posted by Rnlcomp

This is incredible. Already emailed the guy about it! thanks
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http://customcreationpaints.co.uk/Hy...me/hydrochrome
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thats 740 dollars before shipping and before setting up a spray gun....

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