I am looking to paint my chrome grill surround as well as mirror caps. I am certain I saw a post about it before but I cannot find it anymore! I tried the search button and everything but "paint" and "chrome" doesn't narrow it down too much. Any suggestions?

 

theres something u can buy called paint adhesive. u just paint it over the chrome and then u can paint over the adhesive and thats pretty much it.

 

Anything I have ever read states you must scuff or completely remove chrome to paint it and have it last.

 

https://www.f150forum.com/f116/how-paint-chrome-203305/

try this, i am no expert so i can't help. but this guy paints for a living.

 

For anyone who was wondering how it turned out...

 

What did you end up doing? I'm looking into this on mine.

 

Honestly I just paid to have someone paint it, only $100.

 

Bahaha good idea. To paint chrome you need a very high adhesive primer like bull dog. With that you would need a paint booth so nothing gets stuck to the primer and have trash in the paint.

Grill looks good!!!

 

What about painting a chrome bumper? I thought about hitting it with 80 grit and sanding the hell out of it

 

I imagine a chrome bumper would be a hell of a job. That is a lot of chrome to sand off, then paint expenses! I bet you could but it would be a long day haha