So I've gone to all the hassle to remove the grill and tailgate emblems for painting. I've separated the blue pieces and they are ready for paint. The chrome on the badges refuses to come off. I've tried soaking them in Super Clean, Bleach, sanded, wire brushed, high heat, and the chrome pretty much refuses to let go. Some threads that I've read talk about a copper process in the application of the chrome, but from what I can see it just goes to black plastic. I don't want to melt the plastic so I've avoided oven cleaner and acetone. Anybody else done this???

 

May want to try brake fluid. *do a test on a small inconspicuous area 1st.

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You could paint over it and sand it off a little for better adhesion, or you could try acetone... Once painted, irregularities should disappear? Unless you ****ed up big time lol

 

vinyl wrap haha

 

Can't you just prep them and then paint ?

 

Peelcoat or Plastidip.

 

 

When I did mine, I scuffed the chrome and then adhesion promoter, primer, base, cleared them. Came out great. When doing headlight retrofits, I use foaming oven cleaner to remove the chrome on the headlight buckets. Works like a charm. Dont see why it wouldnt work on this.

 

Chrome is difficult to prep and have the paint stay. I want this to be a one time only project.

 

I'm wanting to do this the right way. I plasti dipped the fender emblems and they look ok but not the look I'm going for. Thanks for the suggestion though.